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Summary: An engrossing emotional story of a great city and its people
Review: A great read ! An engrossing and fast moving story of family loyalties, ambitions, murders, and political and social intrigues set in and around Savannah (by a native Savannahian) with such a fascinating, moving and authentic presentation of the behavior, attitudes and reactions of its diverse people that the book is extremely difficult to put down until it is finished.
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Summary: Fairly entertaining quick read
Review: Being from Savannah I found this book fairly entertaining. I am not sure, though, how much I would have liked it if I didn't live here. Great art the book isn't. Characters in the book lack complexity. They seem almost cartoonish in how they are either completely good or completely bad. However, it does read very smoothly and tells a decent story. It is predictable in that the good guys win in the end, but I guess that happens in most stories. On another note, the book goes to great lengths to extol the virtues of a certain high school. Being that the school I went to stood in direct opposition to it, I can't say that I agree with the author's portrayal.
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Summary: High Powered Action with Sensitivity and Spirituality
Review: Fabulous first novel, filled with charm, intrigue, surprise. Painted with an artist's touch. I love Savannah and I loved this book.
Bravo Dr. Harris. Please give us more.
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Summary: I read all the "Oprah" books and this one should be on it
Review: For anyone who reads the dramatic, compelling books on Oprah's lists, please read this one. It completely takes you in to Savannah during the Civil War, then the 1950's, 1960's, Vietnam War, etc. Though it's somewhat historical, you get to MEET the regular people and see how they lived according to the times they were in. There's so many stories and life situations that keep you intrigued. Looking foward to his second book.
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Summary: Live her and Love it!
Review: Great book! Thanks for the vivid pictures and history of Savannah. Our book club enjoyed your book and cannot wait for the next one. Entertaining and Inspirational!
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Summary: To Dr. Harris - from your old email pal, Cindy Carney
Review: I just loved this book when I read it 3 years ago, and, Dr. Harris, you so kindly got back in touch with me through email. We corresponded (I was vacationing in Florida while my homestate of NJ was going through those terrible snowfalls) and you finally sent (through USPS mail) write-ups about you and your book - Delirium... Here's a long belated thank you so much for sending the newspaper write-ups to me. I loaned out my copy of Delirium and it was never returned, but I finally found another copy today, which I will NEVER lend out. I look foward to reading it again, and I wonder when you expect to come out with the sequel, as you indicated in your e-mails. I just hope you get this, as I misplaced your usps address and I feel bad that I never responded to you. P.S. Please read this book everyone! Excellent!
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Summary: Another Savannahian's opinion
Review: I'm so glad that I chose to read this book before reading any of the book reviews that discussed its literary prose value. I fully admit to have lived in Savannah for the past ten years and probably read it for curiosity value moreso than desire to read another historical fiction. However, I had great difficulty putting this book down to work or sleep. I found the characters and plot most riveting. I found myself asking friends and co-workers that are native to Savannah about the events and descriptions of the town in earlier days, only to determine the extreme accuracy of depictions. I, too, will be awaiting the sequel eagerly.
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Summary: Savannah history
Review: In March of 2000 my husband and I visited his cousin in Savannah. At our cousin's urging, we arose early on St. Patrick's day and made our way downtown to witness the BEST St. Patrick's Day Parade we have EVER seen! My, oh my, what an experience it was...and I had been to New York City's St. Patty's Day Parade....In May while visiting our local library back home, my husband picked up a copy of this book. Well, we were so enthralled by this book and the history surrounding not only Savannah, but the huge St. Patrick's Day parade, that we started recommending it to our friends. It was hard to put the book down and we have asked our cousin about many of the places and things that we read about. We are hoping HE will read it also. But, you don't have to love Savannah to enjoy this book....but WE DO!
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Summary: Dreadfully disappointing
Review: It is with interest that I picked up this book based on the glowing reviews here on Amazon. I like novels of American history, and I am especially fond of generational sagas. However, I must confess that I was very disappointed, because even though the story holds a great deal of promise in terms of its plot and location, it is very badly written.My chief gripe is the very poor character development. The reader gets to know very little of any of the characters because the author has attempted to cram so much into their lives. For example, one of our heroes loves a girl, loses girl, takes up with another, goes to war, suffers dreadful injuries, studies to become a priest, takes a break from this, miraculously recovers from injuries and finds girl again. Any of these elements of his life is worthy of closer scrutiny, but they are all glossed over in the unseemly haste to make this a sprawling epic. Even the bad guys get a rush job. None of the elements of a truly evil character are really brought to the fore, and they are by far the most interesting people in this busy novel. And to add insult to injury the ending was so predictable that I could have screamed. After all I had only perservered with it to find out how it ended. I could have given it 1 star for the writing, but I decided to give it 2 stars in order to acknowledge that it could have been a really magnificent novel.
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Summary: Savannah Revisited
Review: My wife gave me this book for Christmas because we had visited, and loved, Savannah a couple of years ago. It was a wonderful read and I saw again many of the places that I enjoyed so much on our visit. This story was excellent and I enjoyed the way it moved from generation to generation and kept things so well tied together. You can feel the emotions and turmoil of the various characters. I am looking forward to Mr. Harris' next novel.
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