Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Cold Mountain
Book Review: If You Haven't Seen the Movie, Don't!
Summary: 5 Stars
This beautifully-crafted tale deserves your imagination, not preconceived notions based on movie stars playing the characters. "Cold Mountain" is a story of redemption and love. While leisurely paced, there enough twists and turns to keep you on the edge of your seat. Don't let the slow start fool you - there's plenty here to keep you turning the pages including detailed descriptions of historic events, complex characterizations, and a growing desire to see the lovers reunited. Expect to settle in for a while to let the magic of the imagery wash over you.
Book Review: If you have a choice, don't bother with this book
Summary: 2 Stars
My summary of this book is "Don't bother." The author decided to pass up on common formatting for conversation (you know, that whole quotes around a spoken sentence), which made it visually hard to read. The word choice was rich, but that didn't quite make up for the glacial pace. The theme is basically two sets of characters who are trying to remake themselves outside of the structure of the civil war. They wander from incident to incident, only slowly growing/changing. I plodded through it, kept afloat by one secondary character (Ruby) and the portrait of characters encountered by the wounded soldier as he traveled. But really, after that long slog through the story, I would have appreciated a slightly happier ending.Book Review: Intense and brilliant
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is very bold in it's desciptions. It is placed in the cival war and has an extrodinary ending.Book Review: It ain't easy
Summary: 5 Stars
Wow, just finished it. I had seen the movie, and knew that I liked it, but had forgotten the ending by the time I got to the book. My first impression was that it was not going to be something that I was just going to breeze through. The pictures that Frazier paints are so in depth, but rather than become cumbersome, it drew me in even more. The character development was unlike anything that I've ever read. It made me long for simpler times and the day when I can get out of the rat race and settle onto a farm myself. Highly recommended.Book Review: Looking forward to reading again
Summary: 5 Stars
This award winning story takes us back to the waning years of the Civil War in the lands east of Tennessee. The story uses two action fronts to relate the struggle of one ex-confederate soldier, Inman, to reach his beloved Ada. Both are struggling just to survive. He must cross hundreds of miles of rugged terrain on foot while simultaneously avoiding those who would kill him for desertion while Ada must learn how to survive on the farm she inherited from her recently deceased father. The vocabulary and descriptions in Cold Mountain are so very rich and full of colorful imagery that it is sometimes easy to mistake the prose for poetry. And though recently published, I'm sure that this passionate novel will constitute a welcome addition to the canon of American literature. Highest recommendations.
If you saw the movie, disregard it. Doesn't even compare to this work of literature.