Hawaii
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780785728474 (0785728473)
Publish date: September 12th 1986
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Edition language: English
Interesting book, but rather boring.
4.08590603
Michener writes in a clunky style and with mostly wooden dialogue--and yet I kept turning the pages and found this an amazing reading experience. I've read that Michener was an inspiration for both Rutherford and Uris, and I can see the family resemblance in novels of theirs such as Sarum and Exodus...
You guys, I finally finished Michener. This is a big deal. Let’s be clear: Big books don’t scare me. The unabridged Les Mis is one of my favorites. I’m a fast reader. That being said, it took me almost a month to finish James A. Michener’s Hawaii. Here’s why: Hawaii is an epic. There’s no other...
OK, I just couldn't finish this book. 600 pages in and I just quit caring about another wave of new characters. It's laborious to read just because of the extra verbiage. I made it through 100 pages of no characters, just volcanic begetting, another few hundred pages of doomed people fighting ope...
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