Review:The best piece of literature ever written so I was told by an O so educated man. I went for the audio book to help me get through it. I do appreciate the art but as many I needed a little help with the rolling on of the story. Read more

Review:Faulkner is great if somewhat challenging to read. He is a Modernist in the sense that he attempts to observe events/issues from multiple points of view and time-space. The protagonist Joe Christmas is an F1-bybrid mixed-blood fellow who is persecuted viciously by his grandfather, a pathetic, vicious racist who killed his own daughter for spawning 'the devil'. That is, Joe Christmas' father was Black and the grandfather Doc Hines allowed his daughter to die from medical neglect during the birth.... Read more

Review:This book was a little weird. The part which brought it down to a "3 star" rating was where Time was trying to converse with someone going (directionally in time) opposite from him. You have to read whole sentences backward, and it gets really tedious! Read more

Review:I've read every one of Edward Rutherford's books, some several times. This one was a disappointment. I think what bothered me was the lack of continuity. It was like someone had dropped all the chapters and not bothered to put them back again. I lost the feeling of history I usually get with his work, of following the families as they progress (or not) through the centuries. This jumped around so much that I couldn't keep up with them, even with a scorecard in the frontispiece. Read more

Review:Edward Rutherford is an excellent writer and if you haven't read him - do and if you have read him - continue. This book does seem to cover less of a timeline than his others but we are a very young country. What I found most compelling was realizing the headlines of past centuries are being re-written almost verbatim in today's news reports. Historical fiction is fascinating to read because it's the politics, financial shenanigans, rags to riches and riches to rags stories, clashing cultural ... Read more

Review:So this book really has three plots. The author attempts to weave them into another but it's really quite unsuccessful. It's an easy, quick, mindless read. If that's what you are looking for this is the book for you. Read more

Review:Fourteen-year-old Joan Scraggs lives the life of a drudge on her father's farm cleaning up after her dad and four brothers, all of whom seem to hate her. She longs for education and to become a teacher, but her father seems set to work her to death the way he did her mother. She might even settle for some love. The last straw comes when her father burns her only three "friends," her beloved books. Finding out from a newspaper that she can get paid work in the city for the same labor she performs... Read more

Review:I have an old version of the complete Burton, and its pages are starting to yellow with age, because it was printed in the 30s on cheap acid-process paper. This version is beautifully done, and a welcome replacement, but it doesn't constitute the entire work. It's just a selection, but a good one. If you want the complete work, you'll have to keep searching. Read more

Review:The narrator 'Anais 9000', as you say, is no more than a machine. It jumps over and mispronounces some words and has a completely horrible voice. Listening to this disc for 5 minutes gives one a headache, let alone 13 hours. You should be ashamed to market such a phoney product. I am horrified. I intend to apply for a partial refund, as I had to take the product out of its packaging to hear just how unsatisfactory the narration was. Read more

Review:The narrator 'Anais 9000', as you say, is no more than a machine. It jumps over and mispronounces some words and has a completely horrible voice. Listening to this disc for 5 minutes gives one a headache, let alone 13 hours. You should be ashamed to market such a phoney product. I am horrified. I intend to apply for a partial refund, as I had to take the product out of its packaging to hear just how unsatisfactory the narration was. Read more