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Loading... London: The Novel (original 1997; edition 2002)by Edward Rutherfurd
Work detailsLondon by Edward Rutherfurd (1997)
I eventually gave up on this book. The chapters quickly became repetitive and boring. (  ) cynrwiecko | May 11, 2013 |  A wonderfully detailed look into the lives and times of a variety of people, with different stations in life's lottery, spanning almost 2000 years. (  ) Chris.Graham | Apr 5, 2013 | See my review of the same author's [b:The Forest|3432478|The Forest of Hands and Teeth (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #1)|Carrie Ryan|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1320633297s/3432478.jpg|3473471] for the general appreciation of this author's work. As I recall, [b:London|92160|London|Edward Rutherfurd|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1320450619s/92160.jpg|3139753] covers even more historical territory than [b:The Forest|3432478|The Forest of Hands and Teeth (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #1)|Carrie Ryan|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1320633297s/3432478.jpg|3473471], and does it well. Highly recommended for lovers of long historical novels that cover the march of time in a particular place. (  ) auntieknickers | Apr 3, 2013 | AP World History This book, by Edward Rutherfurd, was basically about the change in London over the years.In the beginning, he describes the small mass of land that we now know is Great Britain, and how it was still below the sea 54 B.C.E. As the book goes on, he depicts the first humans in London, and even farther into the book he discusses different innovations in different areas in London. These innovations include the railroad. What's neat about this book is that the way he tells the tale of London over the years is by creating fictional families in certain time periods. He makes the tale of London an actual story. It's very well written, but the pace is very slow moving and there are details that are just drawn out until you just sort of want to fall asleep. Overall, it's a great story idea, but a bit boring. (  ) rowansw | Dec 9, 2012 | This was a very good but very long book. I traces the history of the town of London from the early 500 a.d. until 1995. It traces the history of the Doggett, Bull and Silversleeves families. Every different chapter is an entirely new book with new characters and new stories with only the traces of family history and the London tow changes to bundle them together. I loved it. ( ) Anntstobbs | Jun 17, 2012 | no reviews | add a review Is contained inContainsIs abridged in
Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0449002632, Mass Market Paperback)Edward Rutherfurd belongs to the James Michener school: he writes big, sprawling history-by- the-pound. His novel, London, stretches two millennia all the way from Roman times to the present. The author places his vignettes at the most dramatic moments of that city's history, leaping from Caesar's invasion to the Norman Conquest to the Great Fire to (of course) the Blitz, with many stops in between. London is ambitious, and students of English history will eat it up. The author doesn't skimp on historical detail, and that's a signal pleasure of the book. Ultimately, though, the structure of the novel determines the lion's share of its success. Rutherfurd is a good storyteller and each vignette makes for a good story; however, he has given himself the inevitable task of beginning what amounts to a new book every 40 pages or so. Just as one begins to warm to the characters, they are hurried off the stage. You can't read London without a scorecard—but that's part of the fun.(retrieved from Amazon Mon, 20 Sep 2010 01:11:39 -0400) A fictionalized account of the City of London, tracing its role in history and describing succeeding generations of families associated with its fortunes. Interwoven are the everyday lives of ordinary people, from London as a Celtic settlement, 2,000 years ago, to its finest hour during the Blitz in World War II.… (more) (summary from another edition) |
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