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Summary: A long, painful, death-march of a read.
Review: This book came highly reccommended by a number of people who were aware of my interest in the Civil War. After reading it, I felt like I had been used as a cannonball at Gettyburg. To be honest, I'm not sure why I finished it, even considering I mostly skipped over the plot dealing with the woman. For long periods it was, quite simply, boring. Inman's trek across a nightmarish South was more engaging, but still lacked any sort of thrust or dip. After a long time of the author's decision to use underscore intead of quotation marks became not just a strange affectation but actively insulting. Yes, we know you're a great new voice, but why try and tart up this fact by using a quotation method that does nothing than call attention to itself? If you're into tear-jerkers, then this book is for you. Otherwise, skip it.
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Summary: Great Work
Review: If you read this book and could not smell the air, feel the blistered feet, and taste the food, it is only because you have not experinced it in life . The descriptions of the walk home and the life at Ada's farm was so real that you had no choice but to read on. Some what of a let down at the end, but then isn't almost anything that is realistic.
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Summary: Sheer beauty
Review: If I could write like anyone it would be like Mr. Frazier. I cried at the end of this book probably more because it was over than because of the ending. Savor each word. You'll read it over and over again. Waiting (not so patiently) for more wonderful books by this author!
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Summary: Tell that teacher in Akron to NOT assign Amazon reviews!
Review: Cold Mountain isn't great, but it certainly doesn't deserve the deluge of vitriole it got from Akron. Good Lord, one reviewer didn't even believe the Civil War happened...how can someone that ignorant expect anyone to take his/her review seriously?
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Summary: Hey Akron, You Missed a Great Book
Review: I've read about the youth of America's obsession with instant gratification and their short attention spans, but it took reading your reviews of Cold Mountain to really bring it home. If you represent an accurate cross-section of American teenagers then I fear for the future of our country. "Too many words..." "Too much description..." How sad for you and for us all. Charles Frazier's novel is perhaps the finest fiction of the decade and as another reader said, will still be in print and on the shelves of libraries and bookstores in 2100. Someday, when you are more mature you may think back on your review of this book and your attitude in general and wonder that you could be so ignorant.
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Summary: Great imagery but drawn out
Review: I can see why people hailed this book as the next "American classic" based on the vivid imagery of the old South presented by Frazier. This book was by no means a "page turner" and it would be very hard to say "i couldn't put it down" like many of the other bestsellers on the market. The only thing this book did for me was to make me realize how great and awesome nature is and how we constantly take it for granted. The romance between Inman and Ada never materialized and their meeting was quite anticlimactic. Perhaps their old, pure style of romance is a bit outdated for today's 30 and below generation of readers. Good effort by Frazier, but if you have other "to read" books on your shelf, I would leave this alone.
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Summary: Astounding, brilliant, the best book I've read in ten years.
Review: Where does one even start, trying to explain COLD MOUNTAIN? Cliches always pop to mind: "Masterpiece." Words such as that. "As good as Tolstoy." This is one of the most difficult books I've ever read, and I do not really know why. The prose itself is of a style I have never before encountered. Maybe that's why it took a while to get my teeth sunk into it. The writing abounds with description of everything from characters' emotions to squirrels' teeth to waterfalls. Frazier has taken a patent on describing, in words, the Appalachian Mountains. Uncanny stuff. The scope of his imagination, his ability to visualize and then describe in writing, is almost impossible to believe. You have to read the book to see what I mean. Although this is difficult reading, it is the best book I have ever read. I have read my quota of novels, and until now I would not say what I just said about Cold Mountain. I've read novels that left me dazed: Look Homeward Angel; Madame Bovary; Rabbit Run; Anna Karenina; The Catcher in the Rye; Huckleberry Finn; Of Human Bondage. Many others come to mind, but never would I answer that question, "What's your favorite book?" I would always feel that if I chose one book, I would be tossing out the others. Each of the books above is, to me, sublime in its own way. Cold Mountain, however, strikes me as somehow divine. And the qualities that make it such are impossible to explain or summarize. Reading the book is a holistic experience, and I am sure that many readers, actually most readers, would never read far enough into the book to begin feeling those waves of otherworldliness, taking them up. It is at this point, though (somewhere about page 70?),that you will simply surrender to the story and let your coffee get cold and the cat go hungry. This novel is not for everybody: not for poor readers, not for lazy readers, not for the Stephen King fans; but if a reader will trade work for bliss...his job is Cold Mountain.
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Summary: Cold Mountain Leaves Readers Out In The Cold
Review: I chose to read this book for my Literary Analysis class and every chapter felt like torture. What was the point of Inman saying how he felt spiritually connected to bears, then having him shamelessly kill and eat a mother and her cub? There was too much emotionless killing for me; try this one only if you have a bottle of Prozac nearby or are looking for a way to waste a few hours of your life. If you want a book that is truly something to rave about, try MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA. That book deserves no less than five stars, unlike this flat and pointless story.
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Summary: hard to understand but the plot is good.
Review: I haven't finished that yet but from the begin to page #300 it has been difficult but still somehow interesting to read. I don't know where do I find the interests parts but maybe it just takes me into the plot while when I or we in the class are reading that. I would given better grade if they just hadn't put so much details to the story. But anyway that book is not for me.
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Summary: Tough vocabulary.
Review: Being an exchange student from Brazil, I had to read this book for my literature class. Because of the difficult vocabulary, I always lost my concentration when reading the book, which made reading not so pleasureable.
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