Cold Mountain
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Average rating3.6
A soldier wounded in the Civil War, Inman turns his back on the carnage of the battlefield and begins the treacherous journey home to Cold Mountain, and to Ada, the woman he loved before the war began. As Inman attempts to make his way across the mountains, through the devastated landscape of a soon-to-be-defeated South, Ada struggles to make a living from the land her once-wealthy father left when he died. Neither knows if the other is still alive.
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I had high hopes for this book considering I had heard nothing but good things about it. However, my hopes were immediately dashed. There were just so many uninteresting characters who added very little to the story. Inman is so boring I found my mind wondering during many of his chapters. The Ada chapters are the most interesting in the book. Ruby is a bad ass and I'm 100% here for her!!!! The problem with the Ada chapters are that we don't spend nearly enough time with them. Just when things are getting interesting with Ada and Ruby, Inman is forced back on us. But this is a man's world/book so I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
The audiobook needs to be re-recorded. It's terrible. You can hear every jump cut. Some parts are louder than others. And the chapter titles all sound different from the rest of the book. I got this book on Audible and listened to it at 1.25x. Frazier's reading was too slow at 1.0x.
This book was not my cup of tea. The writing was very dull and overly descriptive. I was waiting for something interesting to happen but it was all just sad and depressing. I'm surprised I finished it but I don't like to give up on books.
