Barrett Kesterlian
As always, Mr. Barry is brilliant. I have already read the book twice. The flow is as smooth as always. His outlook on his age is not mockery but true self assessment. We hope to get there and when I do, I will have the book next to me. Mr. Barry please don't wait for "Dave Barry turns 60". Can we please have "Dave Barry turns 51"?

Cliff of Ft. Myers, Fla.
I am soon to be 62 years old. I have read the New Testament since I was a pre-teen boy. I thought I pretty well knew what I thought about this enigma called Jesus Christ. Wrong! Mr. Cahill has dramatically captured and portrayed His message and persona in a way I have never before experienced. Many of his conclusions I agree with, some I question, and some I outright disagree with. However, this book, excepting the New Testament itself, has given me more insight and food for thought than any book on Jesus and His times that I have read to this time. I heartily recommend it to all who seek/struggle to better understand how Christ could be both human and divine. An excellent piece of writing.

KK
Absolutely the worst book mr. patterson has ever written. glad he has improved with experience.

Clayton Petersen
This is the most wonderful book I have ever read. It has made me open my soul to God. I now realize that God has been speaking to me all my life, only I was not listening. Before reading this book, I had had ideas or thought on many aspects of the world and of myself, now everything is very clear to me. So I thank God for his love and I thank Neale for allowing God to speak through him to the rest of the world. I hope that many more people can read these books and find themselves in God. Thank you again Neale.

Hans van Rijn
Thank you so much for let me reading your book ! It really changed my life and that of my wife. This is the best book I've ever read, and I hope everybody in the whole world will be able to read it too.

Rita Clemens
I was raised Catholic and from the time I was a child there were so many things about the Catholic church that just rubbed me wrong. Somehow I always felt that if God was such a loving god (which I truly believed Him/Her to be), why would He/She punish us or damn us to eternal hell without a second chance?

When I started reading Conversations With God, it wasn't as if I was hearing things for the first time, but more like I was being reminded of things which I already knew, but had forgotten or buried deep within myself. The words delighted me and renewed my spirit. It was if I was put on the path to becoming whole again. I laughed and I cried tears of joy. It is good to know and feel the truth all around me.

If you feel empty and lost and are looking for something to fill the void - try this book. I think it will help.

Indrani
I have read books 1, 2 and part of 3...I must say that I was very weary of the whole "conversations with God" concept. I didn't know whether to believe in the truth of it all... but after reading these books, I suppose it doesn't matter whether conversation actually occurred. it has already served its purpose, to heal. No other book has ever mad me feel comfortable about who I AM... no other book gave me a reason to forgive the oppressors of women in every religion and faith.

Dennis
I will have to say that you should judge this book by its cover...the cover sucked, and the book sucked even more.

Jeff
I have just finished Cold Mountain and found it to be one of those rare books that truly draws one into it's world. Frazier does a magnificent job of describing daily life in the Civil War era Southern highlands as well as drawing us into what feels like a friendship with his characters. Your heart rejoices and aches with the victories and defeats in the lives of Inman and Ada as they struggle to live and love in a world torn by war and unrest. What a joy to have found one of those rare contemporary works that actually invests in the development of its characters and probes the depths of those common fears and hopes that bind us all together. An excellent, if not disturbing story.

Wendy
I thought Cold Mountain was a good book. I had to read the book as part of my English honors class. Although the ending disappointed the majority of our class, I thought that in a way, it was necessary. The ending amplified Frazier's meaning- that humanity in war is nearly impossible.

Ashley
Cold Mountain was my book club's selection for this month. And I am certainly happy with the choice. This is the best book I have read for awhile. I just finished it yesterday and have been able to think of little else. The tragedy of Inman and Ada makes my heart break. A sublimely written novel. One I will think about for years to come.

Neel K Shah
If you don't know much about nature and have never ventured beyond your backyard, this book will fulfill your senses of what they have been deprived. You will grab the next chance to trek to the nearest wooded area to explore and share with Inman and the characters in Cold Mountain the wonders and the magic in nature. If you are already an outdoors-lover, you will appreciate Frazier's writing even more. Every person in this novel, and you will meet many, has a story, sometimes interesting, sometimes sad, but each gives you a look into the life of someone or something otherwise foreign to you. The many people Inman meets and the experiences he goes through lend a deeper insight into what he is made of and show how he grows as he makes the passage back home, back to Cold Mountain.

John
It blows. don't bother reading it. I was force to read it.

Elizabeth Morgan
I listened to Cold Mountain as a 'talking book at Christmas on a trip from Canberra (our national capital) to Adelaide and Melbourne, a journey which takes around 21 hours in total. I was so captivated by the eloquence of Frazier's lyrical prose, that the fourteen and a half hours of the unabridged version made the journey one of the shortest I've ever done. I drive this road annually and will remember this trip through Inman's and Ada's stories. I found myself deeply moved by Frazier's story telling end the, epic walk. Frazier's willingness to expose Inman's and Ada's vulnerabilities, alongside their enormous courage, is rare writing for a man. His is the style of Pat Barker trilogy of the futility and tragedy of war from the eyes and hearts of ordinary men and women who get caught up in someone else's war.
I loved the detail of their thoughts, the landscape, the characters, the events which they all encountered, the realness of the way in which Frazier recounted what might have been. Frazier reads this story with a beautiful timbre and by the end of the tapes we were convinced that Inman and Ada had been talking to us.
4 stars and one of the most beautiful books I've read for a couple of years.

Peggy Sterkin
Hello, I finished this book in Arizona, the last place I visited before I returned to Australia. It has wreaked me. I can't read much else, and I keep wondering why this book was so different. The author tells the story, as authors often do, but he lets the reader respond. There is no manipulation of the reader. You read the story, and there aren't bad guys and good guys, and the people in his story make themselves known to the reader as time passes. I can read crime fiction on the airplane to Sydney, where I occasionally work, and in the hotel room, and on the trip coming back. But everytime I pick up a book in a shop and read the first page, or another page , I can see the writer's craft, and some books are well crafted, that is true. I just can't bear the language of the well crafted writer, the clever and expressive use of words that leave me out, or tell me how to feel, or who to care about. I can read William Thackery, because he knows the good and the bad in his people and he lets me know what they have been up to. But I can't read much else at the moment except for children's books - The Phantom Tollbooth is one I always read -- because a perfect children's book is probably the best thing anyone can read. Phantom is a perfect book, and I feel that way about Cold Mountain. Cheers, Peggy

John Baker
This is not a book to be read on a bus or on a subway. This is a work that demands time and attention. It will reward the attentive reader with a richness of imagery and lyrical description that is rare indeed in a modern narrative. This immensely detailed work is deeply evocative - calling forth primitive almost atavistic connections to the natural world that I, for one, did not think were still available to me.

Austin Wilson
Cold Mountain is a very good book. The first part of the book is not very good but as you get the the forth or fifth chapters it starts to get interesting.

Robert T. Hall
"Coast Road" is a deep human story of family life that you can't put down. The author must have lived parts of the tense phases of this delightful story. Thank you, Barbara Delinsky !

Linda McKeown
I could not put this book down. It is so filled with emotion. It was a pleasure seeing Jack making a stronger connection with his daughters. I felt this story showed a great sense of what family, friends and neighbors are all about. You never know when everything you hold dear could change in an instant. A must read!!!!

Carol Driscoll
I have read and enjoyed many Barbara Delinsky books, but Coast Road is by far my favorite. I became so involved in the story and so attached to the characters that I am miserable to have finished it. I want more of these people...more of their story....maybe a sequel book, Barbara?