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Telly
Nov 19, 2008 rated it it was ok
I really fell in love with Michener when I read "Chesapeake," but this book, one of his more recent, lacked everything that I loved about the original. I suppose I expected the storyline to flow along with a few select families, as it did in "Chesapeake," throughout history, but, evidently, the fact that the different islands are different nations with different prevented this for him. There are some areas of overlap, but, for the most part, it lacks. In fact, I felt the whole story missed somet ...more
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