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Title: Nashborough : A Novel by Elsie Burch Donald ISBN: 0-06-103162-3 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 30 July, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.6 (5 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Could have been much better..........
Comment: I usually love long family sagas and had great expectations for Nashborough. This novel started out well enough, but I just skimmed the final third...
My main problem was that none of the principal characters were likable or even that interesting. The sister, jasmine, who sleeps with her brother-in-law (all the while emphasizing the value of family!) critisizes her sister's wedding. The family is rather cold amongst each other, yet places themselves above all others. To them anyone else is an outider. When an alcoholic brother leaves his young bride and their children they assume the wife must have been boring!? What kind of family is this!?
Other than such meanness (clannishness they call it). Not a lot happens. This is surprising since the novel spans much of the turbulent twentieth century. Major events such as WWII and the Depression are mentioned, but really do not impact these selfish people.
I wish this had been better. By the way, Rona Jaffe's The Road Takes is a much more pleasant family saga!
This was simple mean spirited & tedious.
Rating: 2
Summary: Disappointing
Comment: I love family sagas, and for the most part for me the longer the book the better. I love the way that the characters develop and interact with each other, and in a truly well written family saga there is the added attraction of major world historical events to put their lives into perspective. Alas, this book has very little of this.
The interesting characters are there, sure enough, but we learn almost nothing of them. They have joys and terrible tragedies, and these are all glossed over as we march through the years. There is no true development of the lives of the families - they are all entirely superficial. Even when one of the main characters goes to war and becomes famous for his heroics, this is dealt with in one or two paragraphs.
The author certainly has talent, and I'm sure it will develop, but this is a very disappointing effort, and I struggled to finish it. Even then I got the impression that she was in a hurry to finish the book. There are far superior family sagas on the market.
Rating: 3
Summary: An endless Southern saga
Comment: I have an inexplicable fascination with the South, so I'm often drawn to books that are set there. And this book does give a detailed depiction of upper-class Southern life (how accurate, I don't know). But it's soooooo slow! And there are so many characters you'll be glad that there's a glossary listing them in the back of the book.
Because of the large cast of characters, there is very little character development. It's hard to feel connected with any of them as they fritter about, having babies and drinking endless pitchers of martinis.
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Title: Lucia, Lucia : A Novel by Adriana Trigiani ISBN: 1400060052 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 08 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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