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This has ambitions to be an American Odyssey, telling the tale of a Confederate soldier, Inman, who travels to return to his love Ada at Cold Mountain. I admit there's just about no literary affectation I hate more than the fashion a la Cormac McCarthy to omit quotation marks. Frazier, when he marks off dialogue at all, does so with dashes and it jarred me out of the story every time he did it. It's a technique that screams to me, "Lookit, Harold Bloom, aren't I special?"
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i am glad i did not live during the civil war. not a happy, peppy book.
An excellent and gripping story of love surviving against the odds. I hope the movie is half as good as the book and I'll be satisfied.
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