Pros: Descriptive writing, unique style, and the imagry is bold. Cons: Bleak, depressing, and I'm not even going to talk about the ending.
When a book takes more than three tries for me to get into it, I know I'm going to facing problems. But my friends had assured me that this was a 'not-to-be-missed' read and so I plunged on ahead. Set in the time leading up to, and during, the Civil ...
Pros: Immerse yourself in this fascinating (sometimes romantic) Civil War era novel. Cons: I can't think of a one!
Thanks again to Angie (GoldMoon) for hosting this September Book Write-Off! I first read COLD MOUNTAIN about 3 years ago when I received it as a birthday gift. The friend who gave it to me knew that I generally enjoyed the Civil War ...
Pros: Everything you wanted to know about fatback and grits. Cons: Frazier's writing is little more than tedious prolixity.
You know how people sometimes say they were born in the wrong time? Not me. I was born in exactly the right time – an era where I can lead a happy, contented life without having any idea how to slaughter a hog, chop firewood, or fry up a mess of grits ...
Pros: beautiful writing Cons: somewhat slow, lack of uniqueness, character development a bit weak
Charles Frazier's first novel, Cold Mountain, was difficult to begin, simply because there was more thought than action. I read a few pages of it, then had to put it down. By the time I wanted to pick the book back up again, I had forgotten what ...
Pros: Quietly beautiful prose Cons: Slow, too many extraneous details, one major plot line is resoundingly dull
When I finish a good book, I generally feel some sort of bittersweet loss, that our time together has ended, you beautiful hunk of papers, you. My thoughts run round the mulberry bush, chasing the characters and events and trying to arrive at some sort...
Pros: I'll get back to you if I think of one - don't hold your breath Cons: Plot, characterization, narrative arc, action, description, and exposition all fail miserably, and it's not even heavy enough to be used as a doorstop
Apparently many, many readers came to the end of Cold Mountain with a tear in the eye and a lump in the throat. I too had a physical reaction as I slogged to the end of this soggy, poorly paced, derivative mishmash of cardboard characters and...
Pros: Descriptive, accurate, touching characters Cons: would have liked some more detail on the war
I won't try to get too deep with this review, like I used to have to do while earning my English degree at the University of Virginia, but here's my take on Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain, a book I finished today on an airplane and that is still fresh...
Pros: Well-done minor characters Cons: Boring, pretentious. Half dimensional major characters. Too much time spent gettin' vittles.
Cold Mountain starts of well enough: wounded Confederate soldier deserts in the waning days of the Civil War and tries to return home to Cold Mountain, which appears to be some distance away. His one true love lives on Cold Mountain, or perhaps near it,...
Pros: Well and realistically written, sure to make the reader care what happens to these two wounded but worthy souls. Cons: Some may be dismayed at the ending if they prefer Disneyfied stories.
This is Charles Frazier's debut novel, and astonishingly so. The writing style is spare but lyrical, well-suited to the Civil War period it is set in, with the accomplished maturity of the confident storyteller.
It is the story of W.P. Inman, a...
Pros: Lots of poetic detail Cons: Lots of poetic detail
It dragged.
Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier, was bound by beautifully detailed descriptions--that refused to end at one paragraph. Continuously the two protagonists delved into the sights, sounds, and smells of North Carolina....
Pros: writing style, Southern cultural accuracy Cons: progress of the plot lingers too long in a few places
The strength of "Cold Mountain" is undeniably the beauty of its writing. Charles Frazier's first novel is the story of a Confederate soldier's wanderings on his journey home after leaving his unit during the war. The book's protagonist,...
Pros: Beautiful and haunting Civil War Story Cons: None
In short, Cold Mountain blew me away. Every now and then a book or movie comes up out of nowhere and floors me. This was the case with Cold Mountain. A wounded Confederate deserts and tries to find his way home is the jist of the book but the...
Pros: Thoroughly researched Cons: Slow pace ultimately wears down the reader
Cold Mountain is the story of a 19th century American odyssey, told at a 19th century pace. A Confederate soldier named Inman, the victim of a serious neck wound at Petersburg (Virginia), recuperates in a nearby hospital and then decides to leave the...
Pros: Historically accurate details. A long, informative, walk in the forest during the Civil War. Cons: Predictable plot. No surprises, No humor. The walk in the woods is bloody.
This book has a very nice, somewhat poetic, style. Not at all a unique voice, however. The problem is that he has not much of a story to tell. He does appear to be well informed about trees, birds, hills, rivers, farming, and the Civil War. His ...
Pros: Aftermath of the Civil War and it's affect on the lives of survivors beautifully evoked Cons: The ending was bittersweet
I just finished reading this book full of vivid characters and poignant descriptions of the emotional toll the Civil War took on those who lived through it. There have been few novels about the Civil War that describe the stark personal destruction of...
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