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Chargement... Spencer's Mountain (original 1961; édition 1993)par Earl Hamner (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreSpencer's Mountain par Earl Hamner (1961)
   Best Family Stories (98) Books Read in 2017 (2,340) » 7 plus Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.   ) kslade | Dec 8, 2022 |  I rarely wish I hadn't read a book. This one just didn't hold the charm that the television series held. I know there is a movie based on this book, and I'm still very likely going to try to find it to watch. The TV show was fairly uplifting. This book features an accidental death of a key person, but then just glosses over it, like dead, buried, forgotten. I loved John Boy in the show. He always seemed rather flighty to me, and this book allows me to understand that it's the way the character was designed, and that Richard Thomas brought the charm to the character. In the book, he slept with a casual girlfriend without any real consideration. It did not feel genuine to the time, or the storytelling. I feel funny saying that, as I know this is based loosely on Hamner's life. Maybe he did just get naked and run around in a field and then just accidentally have sex with his girlfriend, so who am I to judge? Really, it could've been written much better, if that's what happened. I'm disappointed in the writing more than the lack of character development, since it is based on truth. ( ) BoundTogetherForGood | Oct 10, 2022 | I loved the Waltons but wondered how it would work in book form. I neednt have worried: Hamner's family, while upstanding, are much less cloying and saccharine than their television counterparts. The only child who really features is eldest son Clay-Boy, who is on the cusp of adulthood - yearning to get a scholarship to allow him a college education, and in the throes of first love. When we first meet him, he is off on his first hunting expedition, plunging his knife into the deer's throat while the men pass the whisky around (don't recall John-Boy doing such a thing!) Delightful, folksy tale, but with heart-wrenching moments that make it all believable. (  ) starbox | Jul 31, 2019 |  ) dara85 | Jan 5, 2018 | While The Waltons is more Mayberry meets the Love Boat. The emotion of Spencer's Mountain definitely feels like a real novel. A difference, for starters, is the main character. Clayboy has a hormonal balance missing from John-Boy's more contrived character. Still, the novel clearly presents a familiar outline of the later adapted TV series and still reveals the same heartwarming sense of hope. (Side note: It's a LONG way from 1925 Downtown Abby to 1933 New Dominion, VA. Pat Conroy might say, The Water Is Wide. ) (  ) bikesandbooks | Jan 29, 2017 | aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML: In this classic novel that inspired the TV series The Waltons, a father struggles to support his large family in Depression-era rural Virginia. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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