There aren't enough words to accurately describe my feelings about The Good Earth. Simply put, it is one of the best books ever penned.The book begins on the morning of his wedding to a slave girl named O-Lan. As he prepares himself we get a sense of the simple, proud, and hardworking man that he is...
A 12 mile walk round the icy lake with Vampyre Dawg. The third time of starting this and the time must be of been right because the ponderous pacing did not grate; am even contemplating the second in the trilogy.#76 TBR Busting 2013
[a:Pearl S. Buck|704|Pearl S. Buck|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1344969427p2/704.jpg] is such a wonderful writer. Her stories have such a timelessness to them. She creates such strong, believable and relatable characters, and even though this book was first published in 1931, its message still fee...
somehow Pearl S. Buck won the Nobel Prize although she isn't all more skillful a writer than the average schoolmarm working in China today. that is brilliance or the failure of the Nobel Committee, which anticipated its future direction in honoring world literature, which passed comment by on the gl...
This is an engaging family history, and the way an unsympathetic character mellows is well done. However, the fact that Buck's parents were missionaries is demonstrated by a dated writing style that is reminiscent of the King James Bible. Although not preachy in content, I found the tone increasingl...
I'm having a difficult time rating/reviewing this book. I think I'm trying to look past the 'cultural imperialism' argument (though I've not always decided to set that aside) and focus on the novel itself. It has some significant heft, tracking one farmer's rise to wealth and prominence and all that...
I probably would never have picked this book up had it not been chosen by a friend for a group read. Honestly, I don't go for Chinese lit very much, but I agreed to read this one, even though I was prepared to be bored at least. But I downloaded the audio version, read by Anthony Heald, and listened...
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