“I liked the book better than the movie. I was actually anticipating it, having read the book first. Inman just can't seem to catch a break on his journey back to Cold Mountain.I saw the movie in Sarajevo, after having been ther for about two months. I knew enough Serbo-Croation that I could make sense of most of the subtitles, and I remember thinking that I would not have translated the English in that manner.”
“I haven't seen the movie. It still is a slow read to me.....”
“First time I read this book I hated it!Honestly.But I love the movie so much that I decided to give it another chance!So I start re reading this and I literally get lost in it!I do not know excactly what happened but it appears that Fraziers Magic finally caught up with me!”
“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.”
“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.”
“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. ”
“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”
“Good book but slow read if you have seen the movie”
“cold mountainwhat is the name of the young man who took Ada out on a rowboat shortly before entering the war and subsequently dying at Gettsburg?”
