Book Review - Thirteen Moons.

I told him I assumed his decision was dangerous, self-absorbed, and dumb.

although I didnt agree with his call, I should admit that Lester actually knew his things. He loved to gloat about the incontrovertible fact that he made additional cash on his investments than he did from his college income. There are scores of books about the Yank Civil War that give a more definite account of that war than Charles Fraziers Cold Mountain. Over six hundred thousand American citizens died, more than in any other of Americas wars. Discover more on day trading. But Cold Mountain is largely about folks, 2 particularly, whose lives that war so tragically shattered, and thats what makes it so fascinating. In similar fashion Thirteen Moons, which was published 9 years after, is again a tale of folks that live, love and die in a less brave period in our history, the Indian Wars of the 1830s. Once more Frazier makes you care a lot about what occurs to the people till he and his protagonist appear to lose their way in a craving for something outside their grasp. While whites doggedly raid Indian land, steal their property and cause every kind of chaos, complaints from the Indians reach all of the way to the halls of Congress. When I asked him what his trick was, he just grinned and said that he was just that good.