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I picked up Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain at the library on the advice of TheKnitter. She really liked the book, and she probably knows what she's talking about because she was a litterature major. So, if you want to, take her word for it.

Me, the lowly journalism major, I did not really like this book. I began skimming halfway through. I found the characters were cold and distant, and the story was not really thrilling to boot.

To illustrate why I didn't like this book, I am going to put up a short passage that I feel sums it up quite well:

If you liked that excerpt and would like a similar description involving any of the following:

molasses
trees
wounds
death
blood
guns
grits
cornbread
horses
apples
leaves
farming techniques

then you're in for a book you'll love. Otherwise, I'd stear clear. If you're really stubborn, though, give it a try. Somebody must have liked it, or they wouldn't have decided to make a bad movie about it, right?

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier