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4.0 out of 5 stars
Warm sassy surprise....,
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This review is from: Cold Sassy Tree (Paperback)
I had been on a terrible dry spell for about a year in my book choices. Everything I opened was crap. This book was recommended to me by a family memeber. Considering the luck I was having, I didn't have any real high expectations. So, what a pleasant surprise when it turned out I LOVED this story!This is a story about a 14 year-old boy living in small-town south at the turn of the century. Though I know she wasn't old enough, I'd swear Burns lived this story; she was that descriptive. I really got the feel of the small town southern town and living. The boy had very strict, deeply religious, well-intentioned parents. The boy got plenty of comic relief from other family members, friends,busy-body neighbors, and most of all, a goofy Grandfather. Grandpa gets married three weeks after Grandma dies to a young "northerner," and becomes the scandle of the town. You think the motives for this whirlwind marriage are clear until the very end, and it's a fun journey getting there. I even had a tough time trying to decide if I liked this couple all of the way through this story, which made it a page turner for me. The family interactions are a little over the top. I wondered more than once who really talked this way? And there were a couple of narratives by the boy done while he was spying on Grandpa and his wife that I thought were down-right creepy. But all-and-all, it was an enjoyable, fun read. And possibly the best part of all of this is, my dry spell is over. Along with this one, I've been reading some darn good books lately!
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Doesn't the racism bother anyone?,
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This review is from: Cold Sassy Tree (Paperback)
I found the book well written and the characters believable - but not likable. They were the rich family in the town and never seemed to grasp that their racist and elitist views were wrong. Only the yankee, Love, seemed to have any sense about how to treat those that were less fortunate, probably because she felt like garbage herself. I kept hoping the book would climax with the entire family learning that their position in their community didn't make it OK to look down and treat others so poorly. The idea that the mill workers were disgusting and that Black people just loved being the servants made the book hard for me to like. Although you had a sense that the author didn't agree with these views, the characters never seemed to get it.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Author had no experience.,
By praetextus (USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Cold Sassy Tree (Paperback)
To quote Emily Dickinson,A word is dead/ When it is said/ Some say. This feeling remained throughout the entirety of Cold Sassy Tree; Olive Ann Burns doesn't know enough (and doesn't possess the skill as an author) to recreate life in the 1906 Deep South. The book was written by a white woman retelling (and embellishing) the tales told to her by her white grandfather. There is no apparent racial tension, which I would not have expected from the South at this time. The book's underlying theme of the grandfather's remarriage is accompanied by a string of unrelated stories about car trips, camping, etc.; the smaller tales seemed unnecessary and had no effect on the main plot (what little there was). I suppose that Burns kept these tales to present a feeling of the times. If they were accurate, Burns did succeed in impressing an image of life in 1906: dull and utterly bereft of relevance to the real world.
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