by lmarsh6877
Type: fiction
Status: I recommend
Author: Charles Frazier
2008-06-12
book
Cold Mountain : A Novel
This is an excellent novel. The movie, sadly, has supplanted it in our cultural minds--sad, because the movie was crap. The novel retells the Odyssey, loosely, set during the American Civil War. Told alternately in the voices of the main characters (Odysseus and Penelope, can't remember their names off hand). It's sometimes a little cloying, but it's well conceived nonetheless. Don't read it if you're afraid of big words and lyrical writing ;-)
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by mystiera
Type: fiction
Status: to read
Author: Charles Frazier
Tags: history romance historical friendship own civil_war lifestories is_a_movie
2006-02-17
by krin5292
Type: fiction
Status: —
Author: Charles Frazier
Tags: historical_fiction civil_war
2005-10-19
by oraclejenn
Type: fiction
Status: disliked
Author: Charles Frazier
Tags: romance historical
Description: While the movie based on the book was entertaining, the book seemed to drag on and on. It took...
2005-09-21