Re: [gardeners] Books
Catharine Vinson (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Fri, 3 Jul 1998 13:54:27 +0000
> didn't think it came close to the beauty
> of Lonesome Dove. That book is one of my favorites of all time --
> mostly because I read it at about the same time I underwent the
> conversion from measuring life by what I accomplished to measuring
> life by how I lived it I suppose.
Beautifully put. Definitely you will like "Cold Mountain." Aside from the
fact that the descriptions of the Blue Ridge at the time for the War
Between the Sates area are a gardener's delight, the whole narrative is
a wonderful expression of that Truth.
It's the author's (Charles Frazier) first novel. It belongs in the list of
the finest 100 novels ever written. No overstatement -- the book is that
good.
Catharine