Cold Mountain

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Summary: I thought the book was very good
Review: I don't know if I'd exactly classify the book into the category of phenominal, but defintitly good! It made you think and thats what I liked. I really liked some of the lines and sayings. One of my favorite lines was this: " Hope itself is but an obstical." I think that sums up the whole book. At the end you were led to believe the complete opposite that happened. You were left with a shock feeling. All in all the book was really good and in rating it would give it a 9.

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Summary: It is not a good teaching book; should not be taught in clas
Review: I am a junior and this book was assigned to my class, and I don't like it. I don't think it should be taught to high schoolers because it is very graphic and full of description, which makes it hard to follow.

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Summary: Not bad but not good.
Review: It all depends on how u look at it. If u look at it in the stories of Inman it was a great book. All his stories kept u into it, but as for Ada's i don't believe that it has any relevance to the book. All she really did was learn how to work on a farm. What does that have to do w/the whole love story that is supposed to be going on. I wouldn't recomend this book to anyone unless your the kind of person that likes a real let down.

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Summary: if you enjoy watching paint dry, this book is for you.
Review: this book had a great story line and well developed characters but the book itself was was a bore. It was so overly detailed, it put me to sleep every time I picked it up. There was maybe one relevant sentence in every paragraph and the rest was just stupid details I don't need to know. This book is filled with stupid metaphors that are often disgusting. This would be a great book if it was cut down to about one hundred pages, and stripped of all of the irrevelant details.

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Summary: Overall it was a good book.
Review: Cold Mountain was a good book except for the description. If there was a lot less description the book would have been excellent. The story line was good and the flashbacks were good but the book went in real time. Inmans journey took forever and the book showed it. Overall, Good Book.

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Summary: It was definitely not my favorite book.
Review: Cold Mountain had WAY too much detail in it for me. He (Frazier) would go into his details and I would get very lost. Then his little rehashing of the past also threw me off. I noticed that everything the characters said would not be in quotations, and that was confusing also. I'm not sure if I could consider this a book good for teaching in school, because you have to admit, that scene with Junior was very graphic, and not really anything I wanted to read. Also, the scene with Tildy, the big whore. I didn't find any part of the book offensive, but I would understand if someone else did. If this book was made into a movie, it would be about as long as Schindler's List... and that is one very long movie! It needs more action and less BSing around all of the time. I was very disappointed by the ending of the book, and to be quite frank, it pissed me off.

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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: This is a great book. It was very discriptive, and put you right in the moment. I loved it. The ending was defently not just your normal "story book ending." I would recomend this book to anyone who enjoys reading.

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Summary: Too much description
Review: This book had a few good moments to it, but often swerved off, and went into to much detail with the surroundings. Also I didn't much care for the fact that it keep switching from charecter to charecter as the chapters progressed. All in all the book didn't apeal much to me, and I had no interest in it.

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Summary: Great Book
Review: This Book Was great and I would recommend it to anyone who is looking for a chllenge. I enjoyed how it gave a lot of description on everything. It put you there in the story. I read this book for English but I would read it again if given the opportunity to do it over again. This book wasnt easy to read it is very challenging.

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Summary: a sure "classic"
Review: The reviews on this book are a hoot! I thought it was slow after 50 pages but then things picked up. This book will still be in print in 2100. I hope the movie doesn't get messed up.