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    <body><![CDATA[Three stars because it was expertly written, but it pissed me off. The historic details, interweaving of plots, and lifelike characters were a collective thing of beauty. I did note that Michener left a couple of loose ends (Ethan Grebe, to start), and seemed to forget to color up a character who fa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36546520">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I could even consider giving this book the highest rating, but I held back because it was a little dated and a little awkwardly heavy handed in parts. <br/>Basically I always wondered if people just had Michener books on their shelves because they were long and impressive looking, or if they were a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28913495">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have read this book 5 times.  So inspirational to me, I wrote a saga of my home state of Utah in a Michenerian style.  Love this author.  He leaves no stone unturned.  This is a book that you live as you read it.  It isn't just a &quot;read&quot;. I lived with that family of beaver, the Indians, t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68264142">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have read this book 5 times.  So inspirational to me, I wrote a saga of my home state of Utah in a Michenerian style.  Love this author.  He leaves no stone unturned.  This is a book that you live as you read it.  It isn't just a &quot;read&quot;. I lived with that family of beaver, the Indians, t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59056411">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My all-time favorite book.  I saw the mini-series first and just knew that I had to read the book.  Being Michener, it was long and detailed, but I loved every word.  I felt sad as each era came to an end because I grew to love the characters so much.  And just as I began to think I could never love...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53602425">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The middle of this book is very good.  The first 150 pages are very hard to wade through, and the last 50 pages or so are also very hard to wade through.  But I enjoyed the middle.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm enjoying this.  <br/><br/>One thing about Michener's style that especially impresses me is that each chapter in most of his books read like a separate novella.  Centennial reads so far like eleven novellas within an epic novel.  <br/><br/>Some how the characters overlap, but mostly within ge...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39829597">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Although I haven't re-read it in full since the mid-1970s (when I read it twice), CENTENNIAL probably remains my favorite novel by Michener, who for many years was my favorite novelist.  This was only the third of his really &quot;big&quot; novels (preceded by HAWAII and THE SOURCE) and the formula ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49958739">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I chose this book because I have decided to take a literary tour of the United States.  Having been to the south with Eudora Welty and the Optimist's Daughter, I decided to go West.  And I couldn't have chosen a better guide than Michener (whom I have never read before.)  I was absolutely fascinated...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62346806">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book when the mini-series was about to be released on TV.  I was working in the Wyoming State Archives/Historical Dept. at the time, and Michener had done research there.  He acknowledged the staff there in the introduction to this book.  Because my dad's family lived in Greeley, CO, and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73378647">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book applies the art of Michener to the state of Colorado.  I've wanted to read it for years. It was enjoyable and I learned a lot about the West, how it was settled, how people traveled, the different groups that were important (French trappers, native american indians, military, settlers, inv...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18952043">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book made me a Michener fan. From the beginning of the tale about the beavers to the final episode, Michener shows his brilliance and his enourmous story telling ability.  This book tells the saga about the settlement of the Colorado territory! It is long, but in the true style of Michener, it ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70951063">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In 1978, this book was adapted into the greatest mini-series ever filmed. But there are plot holes that are nagging at me and keeping me awake at night! So I must read the book to get my answers. If the book is half as good as the mini-series and/or Michener's HAWAII, CENTENNIAL will quickly be adde...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67075779">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I discovered this book, initially, via a mini-series production of it that my 7th grade teacher showed me.  I immediately got the book and I'm glad I did.  I really enjoyed it and it lead me to a few of his other books that I also really enjoyed.<br/><br/>I also discovered, thanks to this book, th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50446219">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a great book on the history of the state of Colorado!  Michener loves deep description, and I had to skip the part in the beginning on the dinosaurs, but other than that I loved this book!  Full of adventure and romance, I loved the characters and felt myself right there with them.  Michener is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56309980">more...</a>]]></body>
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