false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166361755m/10920.jpg 10920 42 One of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain is a masterpiece that is at once an enthralling adventure, a stirring love story, and a luminous evocation of a vanished American in all its savagery, solitude, and splendor. Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, Inman, a Confederate soldier, decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge Mountains and to Ada, the woman he loved there years before. His trek across the disintegrating South brings him into intimate and sometimes lethal converse with slaves and marauders, bounty hunters and witches, both helpful and malign. At the same time, Ada is trying to revive her father's derelict farm and learn to survive in a world where the old certainties have been swept away. As it interweaves their stories, Cold Mountain asserts itself as an authentic American Odyssey--hugely powerful, majestically lovely, and keenly moving. 1006369 book 1997 Cold Mountain (Paperback) total:17486|5:3986|4:6198|3:4663|2:1832|1:807| 17486 63182 21395 1679 1 17 false false Sat Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Mon Jun 25 13:24:01 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 25 13:35:27 -0700 2007
This was absolutely the most boring book I have ever read. It took me about a ye...more...]]> 5 6 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Tue Aug 28 17:10:08 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 28 17:16:53 -0700 2007
It was a fine movie. It won Oscars.

But it cannot begin to capture the truly spectacular parts of this story because they are not the surface level narratives that make it onto the big screen.

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Frazier's prose is in the tradition of that poetic backwoods style that you might find in some Faulkner or in the films of Terrence Malick and David Gordon Green. Definitely the product of a learned man try...more...]]> 5 4 false true Mon Apr 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 17 05:49:50 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 15 19:33:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 8 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Thu Oct 18 09:24:26 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 18 09:37:38 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 5 false false Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Tue Dec 02 16:58:36 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 02 17:09:05 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 1 4 false true Sat Sep 20 11:39:23 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 20 12:30:07 -0700 2008 not the sort of book I would have read through to the end unless I was made to.

Ok, ok, I'll admit that the book wasn't exactly well delivered - forced to study it at A-Level by a equally tiresome tutor - but nevertheless if a book is a good...more...]]> 2 4 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat May 31 07:04:23 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 21 05:27:53 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 4 true false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 17 17:24:35 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 17 17:43:25 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1 3 false false Fri May 25 09:04:49 -0700 2007 Fri May 25 09:07:52 -0700 2007 5 1 false false Wed Feb 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 15:52:01 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 04 12:54:55 -0800 2009 After copyediting a rather dry military history of the U.S. Civil War, I needed a reminder of the human dimension. Cold Mountain grabbed me from the library shelf. Excellent choice! Inman, wounded at Sharpsburg, walks away from the military hospital and heads toward his home near Cold Mountain, in f...

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