Dow Mossman

ugh! i was working at barnes & noble when steve riggio decided to drag this back out of the grave it had been rightfully buried in. i remember when our store manager came over and told us it was a corporate initiative for everyone to "at least try to read it." we tried...we failed. and many of our colleagues around the country failed also. sometimes good books get overlooked their first go round, but not many. this one should have never been resurrected. long, long over-descriptive scenes, poor writing and that's just the first page ;-). i don't usually write reviews because i'm a pretty simple girl-i liked it, it didnt do it for me, i LOVED it! one word sums up dow mossman's (give credit where credit's due) stones of summer...ugh!… (meer)

I made myself finish this book (with much cussing of Dawes Williams) because of I made a rule to finish a book I start and because there was promise in the first section of the book. Less promise in the 2nd section made me nervous. By the time I was well into the final section, I wanted so badly to break my own self-imposed rule. I stuck it out and found beauty were I could in his writing - which there was some. Unfortunately, the whole struggle for these 581 pages of oft-times random words, forces me to give this a low-rating. I could not wish it on anyone I liked.… (meer)