Follow the River by JAMES ALEXANDER Thom
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Book Summary Author: JAMES ALEXANDER Thom Brand: Ballantine Books Edition: Mass Market Paperback Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published) Published: 1986-11-12 ISBN: 0345338545 Number of pages: 416 Publisher: Ballantine Books Product features:
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Book Reviews of the Follow the River
Customer Review: Tedious
Summary: 1 Stars
If the author's goal was to make the reader feel as if he had spent six weeks without food or fire reading this book, he was successful. The story is compelling, but all known details of the ordeal would fill only a few pages. The rest of the 400 pages is conjecture, hokey attempts at dialect (used inconsistently in both conversations and characters' thoughts), and an excruciating description of side creeks in three states. Especially hideous are the repeated descriptions of Ghetel; she is not drawn as a person with any positive qualities besides the occasional warmth from her disgusting body. Mary's sympathetic treatment of her is not believable. Did Mary really climb naked in snowfall through water and over rock faces for whole days, after starving for 6 weeks? She was obviously a very tough person, but human physiology has some limits.
If you want to know this story, my advice is to spend 15 minutes on the internet reading the known facts, and spend the time you save with your kids, who presumably have not been kidnapped by savages.