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    <body><![CDATA[This story gave me an appreciation for the civil war.  I was amazed and disturbed by how many men willingly became soldiers and how many died.  I thought it was very sad that so many could be so brave and that their cause was not truly realized for another hundred years.  As for the specific charact...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17272442">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Actually, I didn’t quite finish this book. But I invested so much time in it, I’m counting it, dammit. I was disappointed in it — I was looking for much more story about the people, and much less descriptions of battles. I expected it to be a story about Duncan, Maggie, and Jacob. And since Ma...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17692536">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't like this book as much as I had hoped.  The author spent a lot of time detailing various battles - in gory specifics - and I thought he could have done more to develop the characters.  It felt like the book revolved around the war, and the people involved were just secondary.  I hope his &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5478146">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wouldn't say I HATED this book...but it was painful.  I just couldn't get into it at all.  Gone With the Wind is my absolute favorite book, so when I saw this book compared to GWTW - I figured I had to read it.  Well, I made it to page 56 and then just couldn't take it.  <br/><br/>I found the sp...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57292515">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really wanted to like this book, the cover compared it to <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18405.Gone_With_The_Wind" title="Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell">Gone With the Wind</a> and Cold Mountain, both of which I liked very much. But the characters were very bland, stereotypical and unlikable, the dialog was flat, and the interactions of the characters left a lot for you to guess at, sometimes th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19829941">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book follows the lives of a Virginia plantation family from before the Civil War to the surrender at Appomatox, both slaveholders and slaves.  Some of the subject matter relating to women slaves was uncomfortable for me to read about, but you should be uncomfortable.  I think I particularly lik...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71666678">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[While I'm not usually a big fan of reads about the Civil War, this book was different.  The author is an excellent writer, tells a good yarn, and develops his characters as full-bodied people you'd want to know.  Following the characters from Startford Plantation from the beginning to the end of the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12468666">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Covers a lot of the Civil War battle in detail.  Shows the folly of fighting.  One quote says, &quot;We are fighting over land that before the war, you couldn't get $10 for.&quot;]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wonderful Civil War fiction. Brilliant characters, epic story that is gut wrenching, beautiful and moving. Lot's of war action, beautiful love stories, and terrific historical fiction. A really intense, but involving novel. His writing style is fantastic, his prose seems to flow right off the page w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55392024">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of my new civil war favorites. Great southern perspective on the civil war and insight into the war through the eyes of a slave and a slaveholder.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A good read for history buffs - - a little hard to keep up with if you aren't really up on Civil War history.  Requires some work to keep up. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[By the author of Rhett Butler's People and &quot;the best Civil War novel ever written&quot; according to The Virginia Quarterly.  Hmmmmmm]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great book about the Civil War from a Confederate perspective. If you liked Cold Mountain at all, you will enjoy this book. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Was a difficult book to read, with each chapter I would get into the story, the next chapter would be about something else, and when it got back to the subject of one of the previous chapters, I would have forgotten about what I had read, if that makes any sense.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Virginia during Civil - praise as storyteller]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a great way to learn about the Civil War and the Virginians who struggled through it. This is a richly detailed epic novel as seen from the vantage point of a diverse group of Virginians -- including slave owners, sharecroppers, slaves, fugitive slaves, Confederate soldiers, the women who ra...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23896992">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I LOVED this book...absolutely loved it.  It tells the story of the Civil War period (and some of the antebellum period that preceded the War) from a variety of viewpoints in a variety of settings.  The scenes of war are vivid and disturbing.  The gradual destruction of the South (both the land and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19823628">more...</a>]]></body>
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