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4.0 AVERAGE
4.0 AVERAGE
Would've liked to read about realer perspectives of those who faced oppression, like the slaves in the 17th, 18th, etc. centuries. I felt like there were a lot of POVs from the super rich, which is of course understandable, considering the book as about a family line who accumulated a ton of wealth over the centuries.
Well that was epic! Didn't follow as well as the previous books of his I've read (Russka, London and Paris). Seemed to be focussed in one family where the others have had a more diverse mix.
Wow, another epic story by this masterful author. New York, love the story, love the city, and learned so much about it that I did not know. Excellent.
I definitely enjoyed the first half of this book better than the second half when it enters the 20th century. Rutherford starts in the 1600's in New York which I found very interesting, as a native New Yorker. He uses the same few families through the generations to tell his story throughout the novel, which I thought was quite clever. However once the book reached the 1900's the historical part of the story seemed to take a back seat to the fiction part and I tolerated it.
un piacevole "must read" se stai per andare a NYC. forse su Kindle è più pratico :) #1tweet1libro @ERutherfurd
Extremely educational, fun, and has a good amount of drama and suspense! I thoroughly enjoyed this book and almost didn't want it to end--even after 800+ pages! I'd recommend it to everyone who has any love for NYC. I'm going to walk around the city with a new perspective of the history of locations/areas now and what took place there and what used to stand there.
I tried but just could not get through this book. This author's writing style just didn't work for me.
Perhaps not as good as Rutherfurd's Paris, but overall I loved this book (I had some trouble deciding between 4 and 5 stars). Rich, detailed without being boring, and a fun way to learn about the history of Manhattan.
If I could have given this a 3.5 I would have... I more than liked it, but not totally loved it. This really is a sweeping study of the city of New York. I won't bore you with a summary, other than that it follows the family history of the Master's (a fictional family) through the development of New York from a Dutch colony to today. Throughout the historical progress of the book, the Master family interacts with real historical figures and events. Edward Rutherford must have spent years researching the history to provide such a detailed story that made the historian in me keep turning the pages. The first 100 pages/characters were hard to make a connection with, so that part of the book was a bit trying to read through, but as long as you can stick it out, from there on the family becomes characters you find yourself attached to and want to see their progress. As the time passed and family members came and went my heart went through the usual stirrings one does in a typical novel. You find yourself attached to characters and must read through their loves and watch them pass to time. There are a few characters that I felt Rutherfurd let the reader down with. After spending hours reading about they would just disappear and I was left frustrated and upset I would not know what happened to them. I figured he would find a way to connect them all in the end, and I was not disappointed in that... in fact the one line that had them converge I just smiled and shed a little tear, "Caruso was a good doctor..."
I will read his novel about London now, am I am very glad I stuck out the first 100 pages, so I would for sure recommend this book!
I will read his novel about London now, am I am very glad I stuck out the first 100 pages, so I would for sure recommend this book!
This book was awesome. Long but really interesting - in particular the early history of the city. The only issue was that at the end there was sort of a message to the story that I didn't feel was consistent with the rest of the book. Aside from that well done!