Can't get over how great the passages are in this work, even if the plot is not the finest, it's the sort of book you'd read as a budding author and become dispirited rather quickly! And listening to it as an audio book on Audible, I have to praise the reading of Simon Vance.



I just found it a bit boring and couldn't wait til
I finished it. Seemed to be trying too hard to be clever. My fellow book clubbers are indicating they loved it and from the reviews here it is certainly a polarizing experience.

Some really good insight here. Seemed to be padded out and ran out of steam near the end, but valuable nonetheless.

Written a fair time ago but timeless in its message and methods, as long as you can mentally update the technology aspects in your own head. I wish I'd read this 3 years ago, would have saved a lot of time and anguish!

Writing too rich to be enjoyable and tortuously slow pace. Not for me.

Very interesting to get a perspective on race relations in the US at the time. Story was ok but didn't really transport me to any place magical. Recommended by Karen who said one of the best reads she'd had, so that probably meant it would never live up to expectations.

Cute but didn't cut the grade for me. Historical interest yes, writing style not to my tastes. That weird bit where the perspective switched a couple of times quickly was perhaps arty, but random and without reason.

Read this a long time ago now. Heck, it aint the greatest piece of writing, but it sure was a page turner.

A bit of fun but not a very interesting story

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Interesting read and beautifully written, although a book where too much hard thinking was required to figure it out!

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If you want a philosophy book that uses running as its mechanism, this is for you. I was after a running book that had a bit of philosophy added in.

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This is very much like The Count of Monte Cristo in terms of being a revenge story, although it is based loosely on real people and happenings that occurred in exploring the mid-west in the early 1800s. I found it very gripping and the pages flew by.

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Some people say it is too ambitious - I think not - Bernadine takes on some massive issues and conquers them all. Breathtaking insights into a world that isn't always visible.

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