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  <read_at>Thu Aug 23 19:31:08 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Don't be afraid of Michener!  I've heard the rule is that you can put the book down if you're not finished in 6 months ha!  I think I am 2 months in.  Drink tea and read little by little.  Chesapeake follows a bunch of families living on the Choptank River on Maryland's Eastern shore from before pre...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/916459">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There is no better way to make history digestible than by telling the story through fictional characters...dynasties, really. This was really a beautiful and telling account of American history, from the days of Native Americans to the tragedy of Watergate. The scope of the story is magnificent - fr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32887072">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A friend of mine, upon moving to Baltimore, asked why the area was so eff'd up.  A friend told her she should read this book.  She's moved on to Denver, but we had a recent conversation about Baltimore, which is where I still reside.  I posed the same question, and she gave me the answer that had be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8350457">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well written book. Michener distinguishes the families well enough, but not the different generations. Also he doesn't change the families up enough (specifically with jobs). Some parts of the book are really interesting when he adds the historical perspective, especially at the beginning. However t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2693064">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read this when I moved to the Chesapeake bordering community of Poquoson, Va. Was an excellent introduction to the area and culture. Ran into Bull Islanders who could have been the prototypes used to develop some of the cast.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[About average for him.  Not my favorite writer, but the area interested me since I lived there for about 40 years.  It's worth reading once, certainly.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I almost put this down after 200 pages because it's so ferociously non-literary, but I'm glad I slogged through. Michener takes a god's eye view of the region, beginning with John Smith and the Indians, and unrolls the history through the generations of 4 families--plantation owners, Quakers, low-li...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67498950">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In his fictional history of Chesapeake Bay, James Michener takes you to the top of a large building and lets you watch the pageant of centuries pass like a parade beneath your gaze.  Though you can see the details of individuals as they pass, your perspective predisposes you to see the broad sweep o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44759120">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I FINALLY FINISHED IT!<br/><br/>I've never read a book by Michener before, but I like Eduard Rutherford, who writes similar books set in the UK.  Consequently, it was a pretty safe bet I'd like Michener.  In addition, Darling Wife and I are moving to the Mid-Atlantic this summer, so _Chesapeake_ h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36563165">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you're a washingtonian and have a week at the beach, you'll want to read this book.  Michner gives a complete history (fictional history) of the Chesapeake area, beginning with the geese and Indians all the way up through Nixon.<br/><br/>In his usual formula, Michner brings you through the year...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42463671">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved the first  half of this book- anyone in the Chesapeake area would be very entertained by this (fictional) history about two prominant families.  I had no idea pirates were such a problem to colonists and early Americans!  I didn't enjoy the latter sections of the book as much, but with this ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54883875">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked up this book after I moved to DC.  I thought it would be an interesting and painless way to learn about the history of the area.  <br/><br/>Michener covers a lot of ground and he does make it (mostly) interesting.  I have to say I was a little bored with some of the details about the boat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48257845">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I started to read this book because my Mother's family came from Baltimore and surrounding area.  I used to visit the Chesapeake as a young girl and loved the area. I wanted to learn the history of the area and James Michener certainly provides that.  The book is very interesting but extremely long ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43831893">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a very long book. You really can feel the atmosphere of the area though, as the plots follows several generations of a few families in the Chesapeake area. I read this book in one week, which was probably a mistake, because the generations got mixed up in my mind (the families passed down na...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58889418">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Michener's art of writing historical fiction is both entertaining and tremendously educational. In each novel he writes, Michener makes a piece of the world come alive. A reader has only to choose a particular region-- Texas, Iberia, Hawaii, Mexico, Chesapeake, etc.-- and she will be engrossed in a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71618058">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you live in Maryland you MUST read this book.  What a trip!<br/><br/>When I first moved to Maryland a friend of mine from Florida asked me something like, &quot;That's where the Chesapeake Bay is, right?&quot;<br/><br/>I had no idea.  Can you even believe it?  Well, I know now.  <br/><br/>T...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67962703">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[LOVED this book.  Was a hard read.....but made me want to move there by hearing about the beauty of the place.  I wonder if the people living there now know the history.  Opened my eyes to things I did not know...made me sad for how cruel mankind can be.  It came so easy to them!  It still does.  So...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67921555">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's my second time reading Chesapeake. I love: the building of &quot;Rosamond's Revenge&quot;, the He oyster stew recipe, the boat building, Eden about to kill her masters while they were about to free her, the mix/clashing of religions, America fighting for its freedom, the male crab holding on to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38066193">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really liked this book at the start - it's historical fiction w/ cool info about the chesapeake bay &amp; the eastern shore for the bio/history nerds out there.  But it is loooong and toward the end I just wanted it to wrap up.  Still glad I read it, though.  ]]></body>
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