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Title: Cold Mountain : A Novel by CHARLES FRAZIER ISBN: 0-375-70075-7 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 August, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.72 (1375 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Brilliantly Written
Comment: I thought this book was terrific though it took several tries for me to really get into it. Similar to watching a British-made film where it takes a bit for my ear to get acclimated to those accents, it took a bit for me to get with the cadence of author Charles Frazier's prose-like narrative style. But once I hooked into it the results were stunning. I also saw the movie version of Cold Mountain and thought it was also a visually stunning masterpiece. What the movie director accomplished through visual cinematography, Frazier accomplished through his brilliantly crafted words.
The storyline is basically one where a young man in the Confederate army is so drawn by a love for a women he but briefly knew three years earlier that he walks out of an army hospital and walks back to her and to Cold Mountain. His 300 mile journey takes him not only through the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains but also through the tragedies and struggles of war. The war that Frazier describes is not one that is fought on the grand battlefields but one that is fought by people struggling to survive.
Apparently from all of the Amazon.com reviews, Cold Mountain is a love-it or hate-it type of novel. Me, I loved it and would heartily recommend it to anyone who has an appreciation for brilliant writing.
Rating: 5
Summary: Absolutely loved it
Comment: If you enjoy deeply felt intelligent literature, you will likely love this one. If your idea of good reading is of the "page turner" variety, you might give it a pass.
Charles Frazier's hauntingly beautiful novel is a retelling of a life-changing time in American history and the lives of the residents of Cold Mountain. I have not read anything else that has moved me in such a profound way in recent memory.
It is very deserving of all of the accolades that have been expressed and undeserving of the petty criticisms that have been registered here. To those, I would suggest that they try some Grisham or King perhaps and leave the good stuff to the grown-ups.
Rating: 3
Summary: Good But Not Great
Comment: I am a student who loves to read, I have been reading voraciously since childhood. Since I don't have much money I usually borrow books, and I only just recently started writing these reviews. I was really looking forward to Cold Mountain, because I love Civil War stories:Gone With the Wind is my favorite novel. Cold Mountain is not as great I expected. The story is really a long series of vignettes: it is very hard to hold a supposed romance together if the characters are only together for a few pages. I found the writing had nowhere near the style that Gone With the Wind had, nor was the action as powerful and convincing as Michael Shaara's Killer Angels, a Civil War classic, in my opionion. One of my biggest problems was with Ada. She was so unemotional, just seemed to go through the motions. Why wasn't she angry, rebellious, something, anything, when she lost it all and had to take up with a woman with whom she had nothing in common? Where the anger, resentment, conflict, working out their relationship? The best part of the book was the portrait of the Home Guard, a group of lazy Southern drunks who avoided the war and made themselves the self-appointed Guardians of the Confederate cause by shooting anyone they thought were deserters. The anti-war under tone is also quite strong; once again, we see the barbarity and stupidity of war, and that shines through. I didn't dislike this book: there are some wonderful passages, descriptions of the beautiful spring and horrible winters, a few interesting characters, but not the great story or great main characters I hoped for. I am telling everyone in my reviews about two fantastic historical novels: Robert Harris' Pompeii and James Dalessandro's 1906, the latter an epic about the great San Francisco Earthquake. The narrator of 1906, Annalisa, is the best character I have found in historical fiction in a long time. And for sheer originality, it's hard to beat Alexander Greer's The Confessiona of Max Tivoli, which is also set in old San Francisco like 1906. I think Cold Mountain is worth reading, just go into it objectively.
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