10 member(s) found this review helpful.
Just because a book has won a pulitzer prize and everyone around you says its a great book does not make it a good read. I found the prose hard to digest and the story drawn out and frankly boring. The characters seemeed one dimensional and there far too many tangents.

Jenifer W. (
avsjen) wrote on 4/12/2007...
10 member(s) found this review helpful.
Pulitzer Prize winner for 2004, this book is a rich portrayal of slavery and free blacks during the mid-1800s in the US. No Civil War militaria, this book is a profound and deep look of the lives of slaves and their masters--some of whom are black. Left me thinking of the characters long after finishing the book.
8 member(s) found this review helpful.
I got lost in the book. I became fully involved with the characters and the wonder of the human spirit in all of us. One of the best books I have ever read.

Emily R. (
lereil) wrote on 7/1/2007...
7 member(s) found this review helpful.
Jones brings you deep into the world of the confused South through his beautiful, dramatic, illustrations of life as it was for slaves - both in bondage and freed - and their owners - both white and black. This is a fabulous book that was hard to put down.
6 member(s) found this review helpful.
It's easy to understand why the Pulitzer Prize was given to this wonderful novel. It manages to be epic while neatly confined to small town Virginia.

Leah G. (
LeahG) wrote on 11/30/2008...
4 member(s) found this review helpful.
My husband and I listened to this book on CD while traveling. The story is not a happy one, so don't read it if you're looking for something uplifting. However, it is a very well written book, deeply moving, depicting what it must have been like during the dark days of slavery in America.

April B. (
Bloomer) wrote on 9/18/2006...
4 member(s) found this review helpful.
After you refer to the character guide in the back this book is much easier to follow. Pulitzer winner.

Peggy L. (
paigu) wrote on 8/21/2007...
3 member(s) found this review helpful.
More historical than fictional; very intriguing angle on slavery. A bit pedantic, but really gave me a different perspective.
3 member(s) found this review helpful.
Good historical novel about the little-known culture of slave-owning blacks in the South. Storyline tends to shift around a lot but it's not so hard to follow if you are paying attention! Pulitzer Prize winning book.
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
Even the stifling boredom of a day filled with airports and flights was not enough to force me to finish this snoozer.