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If you love history, you'll love this story. Some of the things amazed me, like the responsibility given to 12 year old boy, running a trading post, and working off his "bound" obligation. And the history of the Cherokee nation and others in the area. At first I didnt realize that when they were talking about going as far West as possible, they were talking about the Mississippi River and not California. So, this made it a fresh story, one that I had not read before. While they have a disclaimer in the back that you cant believe everything you read in the book, much I was able to verify elsewhere, so I think they were just covering their backs. It is a good way to experience what life was like back then, including love lost and won, traditions, attitudes, wages/trading, land ownership, cross-cultures. The author works out ways to add a lot of educational material to the story without sounding like a lecture (like having the white boy adopted by an Indian chef and really understand their way of living from the boy's perspective...oh, and yes, the story does carry on to his adulthood) This was not a "dry" book, but full of adventures, and moved along at a good pace. I really liked the main character, and cared about him, and those he became attached to.


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Thirteen Moons A Novel Charles Frazier Will Patton 9780739340462 Books Reviews

Well...to start off, I read the book twice and listened to the audio at least 7 times. That should tell you how much I liked the book!
This historically based novel has it all...life, love, adventure, sadness, and war. Exhaustive research my the master story-teller Charles Frazier reveals the life stories of the four main characters in the midst of a young nation's growing pains.
And what a great movie it could be!
Also let me mention the audio version, read by Will Patton. Like I said above, I have listened to it seven times...now going on eight. Will is the best at his trade.
Advice Purchase the UNABRIDGED version of the audio, which contains 13 CDs. The abridged version has only 5.
Eddie
Brooks, GA.
A masterful story of a difficult time for native Americans, the South and a developing country. Frazier know his country well. A better novel is rarely found.
The author has developed a cast of characters and a story that he admits is a work of fiction, but relates historical accuracies. The unsettling of the Cherokee peoples, vacating them from their own lands is a sad but true part of American history. Forcing a migration west, families and tribes were disrupted from what was their normal lives. An orphaned, young white lad is sent into that environment to run a trading post. He becomes immersed in the Cherokee culture and is adopted into the tribe. He studies law and finds success in commerce, the law and even is elected to federal office representing the many landowners in the area. The writing is what one would expect from the words of a story teller, with the usual lapse away from the syntax of the written word. Except for a few digressions in the relating, my only complaint is that it is, after all, a work of fiction. I really wanted those characters to be real people. An excellent story well told.
Cold Mountain was a literary success its setting, characters, and themes made it a great novel that became a great movie.
Frazier has done it again. His imagined characters, their relationships, the historic detail, the setting, the philosophic commentary of the literate backwoods narrator--all these and more make this work of fiction a wonderful reading experience.
I was especially impressed with the voice of the narrator due to Frazier's expert creation of his first person narrator, he was able to achieve a literary style of admirable dimentions. The language is inventive in its diversity. Descriptions are a treat to the minds eye. Cliches are rendered new. Similes and other figures of speech abound, newly invented. In short, this reader loved the use language in this novel. There is much to be appreciated in this novel, so full of life from a wonderful observer.
I should start by saying that I'm the type of reader who inhales books, admittedly usually reading far too quickly and then moving on without committing a whole lot of a book to memory. "Thirteen Moons" was a tremendous exception. The best way I have of describing Charles Frazier's writing here is to compare it to a hard candy that has some sort of amazing flavor -- something that you just want to keep sucking on and savoring until it's whittled down to nothing.

There are more than a few reviewers who have criticized this novel for the same reason that I praise it, and it could be that those readers weren't looking to sit down and "smell the roses" of some truly beautiful descriptions of scenes, feelings and situations, as this is the most savory writing I've come across in a very long time. The author truly seems to enable the reader to inhabit this lost world, and that's a sign not just of talent, but of outstanding commitment to a sense of place and time, serving to remind anyone interested in writing fiction that setting is more than just a background -- when done with such precision, it's a character in itself.

Will is a dynamic character who literally grows up as an eyewitness to a tragic period of American history. While Frazier could have easily fallen into the disappointing "noble savage" theme that all too often characterizes attempts at stories centered on indigenous people, he has instead taken the time to breathe life, noble and ignoble, into the Cherokee characters. (I adored Bear.) The historical research is so meticulous and this era is so painstakingly created that, with the exception of actual eyewitness accounts, I daresay there's very little else that truly invites the reader to examine and inhabit this period of history in such detail.

Will is a character who truly grows and changes in his attitudes, actions and worldviews over the course of the novel. The love story is a bit less finely-drawn, as the character of Claire never seems fully developed, and the reader never truly knows how she feels about Will, how she feels about her husband, or even how she really feels about removal, despite the fact that she is among the removed. As a whole, female characters don't seem to be Charles Frazier's strong suit -- characters like Will here and Inman in "Cold Mountain" have always felt more real and relatable to me than have any of his women, with the possible exception of Ada Monroe in "Mountain."

A glorious effort I was truly sorry to see end. I bookmarked many passages and will no doubt be reading "Thirteen Moons" more than once over the years.
If you love history, you'll love this story. Some of the things amazed me, like the responsibility given to 12 year old boy, running a trading post, and working off his "bound" obligation. And the history of the Cherokee nation and others in the area. At first I didnt realize that when they were talking about going as far West as possible, they were talking about the Mississippi River and not California. So, this made it a fresh story, one that I had not read before. While they have a disclaimer in the back that you cant believe everything you read in the book, much I was able to verify elsewhere, so I think they were just covering their backs. It is a good way to experience what life was like back then, including love lost and won, traditions, attitudes, wages/trading, land ownership, cross-cultures. The author works out ways to add a lot of educational material to the story without sounding like a lecture (like having the white boy adopted by an Indian chef and really understand their way of living from the boy's perspective...oh, and yes, the story does carry on to his adulthood) This was not a "dry" book, but full of adventures, and moved along at a good pace. I really liked the main character, and cared about him, and those he became attached to.