Cold Mountain

I have always liked the movie so I thought the book would be as good or better then the film, as with most books, but this was the exception.

The story and themes in both the book and film are fairly close. What the film does better is that it doesn’t over preach. This felt like a book that you would have to read in high school but when a teacher asks you what the book was really about its hard to say. Most of the book’s writing didn’t seem to go any where. We got these over done sentences that sounded very descriptive, but it had no substance. Then on the points the book was trying to make it over did showing the issues. We didn’t need so much time with some characters or scenes to understand the author’s point.

When I think about the overall plot, the book is good, but I can’t think of one section I really enjoyed reading. Most of my experience was waiting and hoping the story would get moving. I would watch the film again but not read this book again.