“I'm half way through this book and I just can seem to get into it!. I feel like I keep waiting for more direction to come to the story....instead it just meanders through time. I would quit reading it, but I have this thing about .....once I start a book I MUST finish it. Anyone else feel this way about the story?”
“March this villain to an infamous fate!”
“Loved Little Women - but not March. Mr & Mrs March do not reconcile to the originals, in fact so opposite to Alcott's Mr & Mrs. And I think if you are going to borrow existing, established fictional characters, you cannot change them to suit. And this book could have been written, and probably written well, about Mr & Mrs Anything-but-March”
“I enjoyed this book and its position as the missing half of one of my favorite girlhood books. Having Mr. March interacting with the real people of Concord was interesting to me, because I spent several years in the area when I was growing up. I loved going to the Alcott's home, Orchard House, which is available for tours. I can see though, dashforcover, why you wouldn't like it if you hated Little Women. ”
“I really HATED this book. I was bored to tears with Little Women and this one was just as awful. I can understand why it got a Pulitzer, most folks who have read it, love Little Women. Did anyone who hated Little Women like this book? I just don't like books in which a fictional character meets all the now-famous, real-life people of the time and setting of the book. Thoreau took it beyond the pale for me! ”
“I enjoyed this book and the way it showed the complexity of Captain March's personality. I was frustrated by his self-absorption and arrogance(ie, everything was about what HE needed to do this), as well as the pain his idealism caused his family. I did some other research into Lousia May Alcott's family history and I think Brooks was quite true to Bronson Alcott. I did like seeing that Marmee had a little more spunk and spirit than in Little Women.”
“This is not my favorite book. It was interesting to read the author's perception of what might have happened to the characters, but somehow I felt cheated. I just didn't buy into her view of Mr. March or his wife. The plot was compelling on its own, but when connected to my preconceived notions of how these characters should have been it became hollow. ”
“I have to admit that I did not enjoy this book, not because it was not well written or well researched, but because I found the title character so frustrating. Although he was filled with noble intent he invariably caused pain and distress to people he was trying to help, especially his family. He held a hyper-romanticized view of his wife which in many ways made her less real as a person and this view of his wife led to him make choices that caused her great hardships.”
“Little Woman's dad and his story of war and slavery. A well written novel.”
