Search - Cold Mountain

Lots of hype around this book, but I couldn't get into it, mainly because it's a different genre than my usual fare. Everyone else I know loved it, but I can't give it any stars as I didn't complete it.

The book differs quite a bit from the movie, and it took me to the middle of the book to really get into it.

This book is very good at putting you in the situations and helping to understand the characters and what drives them. The areas are so well written you can picture them realistically and the main characters are very strong. The southern charm is very torn apart with the Civil War as most humanity is put aside in war. Very captivating.

Great story about a couple separated by war. They meet, war begins and they are without each other for 4 years. Great adventures as he tries to walk home and she learns how to live of the fruits of her land. I was sad at the end, but overall the book is a wonderful adventure.

This book was a heartbreakingly beautiful story. So much the better when you have the movie faces in your mind's eye. A magnificent novel told in haunting detail. This was one of my top five favorites.

Although the plot is compelling on its own, I loved the passages describing the wild mountains of North Carolina. I spent the summers of my childhood in a mountain retreat in NC, and the descriptive passages of the deserter's rugged homeland brought back memories. He longed for a homeland that was threatened by the Civil War; many of those same mountains are still there, but could be easily laid to waste by developers but for national park/forest designations.