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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Cloudsplitter</em> by Russel Banks<br/><br/>History appeals to me most when the players are presented as three-dimensional people instead of flat characters composed of little more than names and dates. Though it surely warps the truth and fills the gaps with deliberate lies, I like historical fiction....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53423232">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not a quick read, and maybe a tiny bit too long, but I enjoyed it all.  More about one of John Brown's son, Owen, than John Brown.  But we get a lot of John.  An excellent historical fiction told from the point of view of the weak and emotional Owen Brown.  Great believable story telling about his f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41823343">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like Russell Banks and this book in particular is on many recommended reading lists. I've had a copy at home for several years, but kept putting it off because of the length--700 pages.  I am glad I finally read it though.  It took a bit to get into it--the narrator has a rather dense &quot;voice&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47163305">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An excellent book that really sparked my thinking of race relations.  The book was sick, twisted, passionate, and moving. I did not know very many facts about John Brown.  Was glad for this fictional account that included the human motivations and emotional depths to the story.   The book was a litt...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79339487">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[After so many years in bookstores slinging remainder copies of this hefty tome, this book is at least partially responsible for my lower back issues. So, I figured, why not?  <br/><br/>Told from the point of view of his son Owen, nearly a half century after the events at Harpers Ferry, this is the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33367183">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[While the book does give us John Brown's transition from fervent abolitionist to militant terrorist, the story is more about the personal progress of his middle child, Owen Brown, from a child enslaved to his father's persona to a man free of all emotional bonds.  Although there are numerous strong ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28539677">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[How this book ranks as a New York Times Book Review &quot;Editors' Choice&quot; is beyond me. At 758 pages, it's about 600 pages too long, making me think Banks must have some sort of auteur cred with his publisher that allows him to demand no editor lay hands on his oeuvre. <br/><br/>This is fict...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16601450">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[  This is an intriguing piece of historical fiction: exciting (if unoriginal) in its subject choice of John Brown, the charistmatic 19th century abolitionist and patriarch, and impressively literary in its use of narrative arc, generational struggles (the story is told from the perspective of Brown'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3409418">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This novel is the fictionalized story of the abolitionist John Brown as told by his son Owen, now old and living in seclusion in California.  I chose to read this book after reading The <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/310146.The_True_Confessions_of_Charlotte_Doyle" title="The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi">True Confessions</a> of Nat Turner.  I would recommend both to anyone interested the history and politics of slavery a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3044401">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A fictional, yet mostly fact-based account of the famous John Brown, told from the perspective of his lesser known son, Owen.  It's loooooong...750+ pages...which is fine, but the pace needed to be a lot more snappy to have taken this book above the 3-3.5 star mark.  I like my history to have a heal...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36841632">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of those books that really captivated my imagination and I read it incessantly until finally finished. This is a historical fiction about the life of the radical abolitionist John Brown as told by his only remaining son, Owen. (Owen's brothers and father were all executed in Harper's Fer...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11141789">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the story of John Brown as told by his third son Owen.  It was historical fiction and according to the author some of the characters were wholly made-up.  As a history teacher I enjoyed some of the little intricacies of the plot that added to what I already knew about John Brown, but, the b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42778597">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A long, slow-moving, challenging, but pretty rewarding book based on the life of John Brown, narrated by his own son Owen at the turn of the 20th century. It focuses more on setting the stage--with a lot on Brown's financial mismanagement--than on the famous events in Kansas &amp; Harper's Ferry. In a 7...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66965550">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I technically haven't read this book - I stopped about 200 pages in (which is only about halfway).  I just couldn't make it - it was too long and too detailed somehow, to the point that I was just losing the string.  It was recommended to me highly so I've put it aside to try again some other time -...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53288396">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This novel tells the story of John Brown from the perspective of his lone surviving son.  I loved the examination of the relationship between father and son and of what motivates us to take action.  It's a long book that read like a much shorter one.  Made me want to read a real biography of John Br...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68638376">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A very interesting and educational read. I feel like a better person learning more about John Brown and the reasonings behind his abolitionist cause. This is the first Banks book I read but will be reading more in the future. This book is very long and a big commitment but I am proud to have read it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60916860">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Beautifully written book about the pre-Civil War era from the perspective of Owen Brown, son of radical abolitionist John Brown. John Brown and his sons became what we would call terrorists today in their quest to end slavery in the United States. What we look back on as inevitable through the lens ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66509232">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Unusual look into the mind of the impassioned John Brown, through the eyes of one of his surviving son. Paternal politics inflect this first person view of the abolitionist, mulling over the Brown story as part of a family drama. Psychological bent enhanced by inner monologues.]]></body>
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