I was on a wait list for this book when it came out last month, and I was really looking forward to it. Now I think I'm the weirdo. So many excellent reviews, loads of critics who can't say enough good things about it…and I just don't know. There were times I thought "This is great!" but also times I thought "God, this is tedious."
I thought I was mostly doing ok until the speech by Harp at the Grange Founder's Day event. He's not a stupid man, but would anyone really give a speech like that? And I struggle to believe that many people in 1935 would care so much about stealing land from Native Americans. It felt about 30 years too soon. But maybe I'm wrong and significant numbers did care at that time.
Now that I'm done, I think my overall feeling is that the book tried to tell too many stories in one book, and that's one of the things people are raving about. I don't know; please tell me what I'm missing here.
by Dramatically_Average