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Cold Mountain
 

Cold Mountain

by Charles Frazier

This unabridged audio version of Cold Mountain, read by author Charles Frazier, deserves at least as much acclaim as the bestselling print edition, which won the National Book Award. The tale chronicles a Confederate army deserter's search for home and love in the last days of the Civil War.
Much has been made of the story's homage to The Odyssey, the origins of which are found in an oral... (read more)

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Barbara M
  • Rated 5 stars

“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...”

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Nyla S
  • Rated 2 stars

“Not a horrible book, just not my type. Long on description. I got bored.”

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  • Barbara M

    barbara m said:

    “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
  • Shanin

    shanin said:

    “This book had me cheering the characters on thru the entire book. I couldn't put the book down. I just wanted to know if everything would turn out ok in the end. I am not into romance, but I really was going for the happily ever after. I loved every heart wrenching second with fingers crossed.”

    posted Thursday, May 1 2008
  • Leslie E

    leslie e said:

    “This is one of my all-time favorite books, wrenching though it was. To me, it had the pace it needed to tell the story, and I think Frazier did it brilliantly. I fell into Inman's slow pace as he makes his way homeward with his bruised body. Ada's hardscrabble struggles to survive before Ruby came--trying to get eggs from the chickens and her terror of this nightmare world she's now forced to try to make her way in. As a reader, I needed time to become engulfed in this world and Frazier's beautiful language gave me that time. Exquisite prose, I thought, which often approaches poetry. The opening passage with the light and the window--he hooked me right there. ”

    posted Wednesday, February 6 2008
  • homeinthehills

    homeinthehills said:

    “This is not a novel that lends itself to speed reading. The details of surviving horrific wounds, learning to create a garden for food--not aesthetics--heading "home" at a crawl, if necessary; these slowed me down to the pace of the characters. I learned more history here than in the texts called America History. Homeinthehills”

    posted Wednesday, February 6 2008
  • terabear

    terabear said:

    “Good book but slow read if you have seen the movie
    ”

    posted Monday, February 4 2008
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