[wideawake]

Cold Mountain the novel was a lovely piece of work. Poetic and moving.

It was schizophrenic - there were long passages of slogging through the mud of the prose and brief moments of highly lyrical description.

I feel like there was an excellent novella somewhere in that novel.

[Borges]

A lot of people felt it was overdescriptive. I’m a sucker for poetic description. Dickens, Nabokov...