Mention Books In Favor Of Forever
| Original Title: | Forever |
| ISBN: | 0316735698 (ISBN13: 9780316735698) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Pete Hamill
Paperback | Pages: 613 pages Rating: 3.94 | 10850 Users | 1484 Reviews
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| Title | : | Forever |
| Author | : | Pete Hamill |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 613 pages |
| Published | : | November 3rd 2003 by Back Bay Books (first published October 1st 2002) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Fantasy. New York. Magical Realism. Science Fiction. Time Travel |
Narrative As Books Forever
This widely acclaimed bestseller is the magical, epic tale of an extraordinary man who arrives in New York in 1740 and remains . . . forever.Through the eyes of Cormac O'Connor -- granted immortality as long as he never leaves the island of Manhattan -- we watch New York grow from a tiny settlement on the tip of an untamed wilderness to the thriving metropolis of today. And through Cormac's remarkable adventures in both love and war, we come to know the city's buried secrets -- the way it has been shaped by greed, race, and waves of immigration, by the unleashing of enormous human energies, and, above all, by hope.
Rating Regarding Books Forever
Ratings: 3.94 From 10850 Users | 1484 ReviewsColumn Regarding Books Forever
How long does it take to find your true love? Is one lifetime enough? What do you do when you do find it? How do you answer life's challenges and choices?Cormac O'Conner is born in northern Ireland in 1723, loved and cherished by his parents, happy with his parents, dog, horse and home. His father is a blacksmith and makes a very special sword. When he is nine he loses his mother, when he is sixteen he loses his father. The Earl of Warren, who lives in Belfast near them, is indirectly
It took a lot to get even 5 chapters into this. It was mind numbingly slow.
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While it suffered some unexpected pacing issues, this book was overall an enjoyable and thoughtful adventure.I spent most of the first half of the novel confused and impatient for the plot to represent the blurb on the back cover-- immortality and NYC history-- which made trudging through Cormac's young life more tedious than it needed to be. I think this is a trouble moreso with the choice of wording on the back cover (creating inaccurate expectations) than a problem with the novel itself, as I
Like Hamill from A Snow in August, but this novel was awful, i only finished it to see how he tied it together. The plot too ambitious, you can't pack the history of new york into a story of one man. Hamill can't properly end it and does an awful job of foreshadowing the 9/11 attacks. The towers seemed to be mention in every paragraph when the story shifts to the recent past, poorly alluding to what will come. I do not recommend this at all and wish i didn't waste money on it.
There were about 100 pages or so about halfway through this book that didn't really capture my interest and I had a harder time enjoying reading this during that time. That being said, I thoroughly enjoyed the beginning and by the time I reached the final hundred pages or so, the ending. I think the concept of this story was more interesting, to me, than the reading of the book, but most of that was due to how disjointed the one section of the book was that dealt with Manhattan as he skimmed
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