Cold Sassy Tree

Cold Sassy Tree
by Olive Ann Burns

Cold Sassy Tree
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Author: Olive Ann Burns
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-09-04
ISBN: 0618919716
Number of pages: 400
Publisher: Mariner Books

Book Reviews of Cold Sassy Tree

Book Review: Cold, Sassy, Bore
Summary: 1 Stars

I was required to read this novel for a summer reading assignment, and what a nightmare it was.

There was absolutely no plot. I felt like I was merely following a day-to-day journal of some boy who apparently had a dull, dull life. Much of the book, especially in the beginning, dragged on. Many of the events that were portrayed in the book, such as the camping episode, seemed to have absolutely no relavence to the story at all. While there were the very rare moments where the story made me chuckle, much of it was putting me to sleep.

Perhaps one of the most aggrivating parts of the book is the dialect. The tongue of deep Southerners can be hard enough to understand in person, and reading it is even worse. Half the the time I could have sworn that the grandfather was trying to make a point, but all I could focus on were the unbelievable amount of apostraphies and the strange wording that was used.

I found most of the characters to be ignorant and very plastic. They were constantly worrying about what other people thought of them, and though it may be what people back then were like, it creates nothing but irritating and one-sided characters. The grandfather, Will, and Miss Love were tolerable, but every other character just caused me flinch every time they appeared.

I also still fail to see what the relevance of the tree is in the novel, other than the fact that the town was named after it.

I honestly cannot recommend this book.

Summary of Cold Sassy Tree

On July 5, 1906, scandal breaks in the small town of Cold Sassy, Georgia, when the proprietor of the general store, E. Rucker Blakeslee, elopes with Miss Love Simpson. He is barely three weeks a widower, and she is only half his age and a Yankee to boot. As their marriage inspires a whirlwind of local gossip, fourteen-year-old Will Tweedy suddenly finds himself eyewitness to a family scandal, and that's where his adventures begin.

Cold Sassy Tree is the undeniably entertaining and extraordinarily moving account of small-town Southern life in a bygone era. Brimming with characters who are wise and loony, unimpeachably pious and deliciously irreverent, Olive Ann Burns's classic bestseller is a timeless, funny, and resplendent treasure.

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