If you want a book that will move you and make you think, "Cold Mountain" is it. I would also recommend "Any Man" and "Back Roads" as well.


The best book I have ever read   December 14, 2005
 5 out of 8 found this review helpful

This is completely different to the usual chic lit that I read but it was recommended to me by a colleague whose book club had looked at it. And I am so glad! At first I found some of the old fashioned language difficult to understand but after a while this doesn't matter. This book is so fantastic that I had to keep my partner informed of what was happening and he was interested too! The ending was so wonderful I was sunbathing on the beach in Dubai with tears streaming down my face. Looking forward to reading it a second time, which I never usually do.


Takes your breath away!!!!   December 14, 2005
 2 out of 5 found this review helpful

Quite literally, this book took my breath away with its sublime story-telling and remarkable descriptive detail. Anthony Minghella did a tremendous job adapting this extremely moving and simply devine book into a movie. This book is a gem full of quality writing and a magical narrative.

Chronicling the journey that Inman takes from the throws of the civil war to Cold Mountain where his beloved Ida waits for his return, is at times heartbreaking and it's as if we actually go on the journey with our hero. The pace with which the story moves along is gentle and heartwarming as we find that he's nearly there. By the end of the book there's an extremely warm feeling running through the reader as they're reunited.

I found this book a pleasure to read and an absolute gem. With every page that I turned, my heart would leap and then catch its breath. The wonderful writing style and sublime sense of being there during the time is beautifully done. And that's what it feels like right through to the end.