“Listening to this book took a little adjustment since Mr. Frazier's voice is a slow southern voice. Once I got used to his cadence, I thoroughly enjoyed the book. His voice was perfect for the characters. There was one character they couldn't portray in the movie that was so real for me in the book - the land of Cold Mountain. I figured it for a fictious place that Frazier had made alive. About a year after I read the book, my husband and I, and a couple of friends, were on a road trip through the Blue Ridge. We were up near Mount Pisgah. I told my friends, who had also read the book, that I could just feel that this was where the real Cold Mountain would have been. Within 5 minutes we passed a small blue highway sign that said "Cold Mountain!" It was goosebumps time! We stopped at a state tourist info center and looked at a map - Cold Mountain is real. That's how good this book was - I recognized the place from the book.”
posted Tuesday, May 13 2008