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  • The Trees

  • Awakening Land Series, Book 1
  • De: Conrad Richter
  • Narrado por: Danny Campbell
  • Duración: 7 h y 23 m
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (73 calificaciones)

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The Trees

De: Conrad Richter
Narrado por: Danny Campbell
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The Awakening Land trilogy traces the transformation of a middle-American landscape from wilderness to farmland to the site of modern industrial civilization, all in the lifetime of one character. The trilogy earned author Conrad Richter immense acclaim, ranking him with the greatest of American mid-century novelists. It includes The Trees (1940), The Fields (1946), and The Town (1950) and follows the varied fortunes of Sayward Luckett and her family in Southeastern Ohio.

The Trees is the story of an American family in the wilderness - a family that "followed the woods as some families follow the sea." The time is the end of the 18th century, the wilderness is the land west of the Alleghenies and north of the Ohio River. But principally, The Trees is the story of a girl named Sayward, eldest daughter of Worth and Jary Luckett, raised in the forest far from the rest of humankind, yet growing to realize that the way of the hunter must cede to the way of the tiller of soil.

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wonderful history

I first read this in college many years ago and loved it so much. I was thrilled to see it here.

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Good, wholesome story

I've loved this story since I first read it as a teenager and have reread many times over. I was thrilled to see it as an audiobook.

The reader does a fair job, until he came to the pronunciation of a major character name. How is it that someone cannot pronounce "Portius"? The repeated mispronunciation certainly is jarring and lowers the quality of listening to the story.

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the authentic dialogue

The narration, the story line and the authentic dialogue. an older scotch Irish Appalachian Southern, many of the expressions and grammar familiar. the book feels rather short, but it is part of a trilogy. You will not be disappointed.

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not for me

It's written well, and is interesting, but it is not what I'm looking for in a book. While the story flows along, every so often something gruesome and cruel slides into the narrative. You're left with this vision in your mind of cruelty and gore. Why do I want to do that to myself? Granted, the first white people who inhabited our nation had terrible hardships. I've read about it before. I don't need to wallow in the knowledge that the people had no education and died young due to disease and unfathomable pain. That, because of ignorance and the society and culture they lived in, they did unspeakably cruel things. These things are from where we descend. I just don't want to dwell on it today. I understand. I respect. I am saddened. But I'm looking for something less burdensome and more light-hearted in a book today.

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A taste of early frontier life

I read this book 50 years ago and am pleased to say it’s still a favorite, holding my interest to the end. The reader has a unique voice which may have put some off—it did me initially. But by the end I felt it was the perfect voice for this book.

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Very

well written! I enjoy, so much, writing that comes from long gone generations. Buy it!

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Excellence at it's Best

This was well written and narrated. In search of the mini series to watch. Vivid tale of a woman in the wilderness, on to Fields.

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An incredible story; drab performance

I love this Award winning trilogy of books by Conrad Richter. I’ve read them all. He captures so vividly and touchingly, the early 19th century development of a community in the Midwest. Characters and conditions come to life with Richter’s beautiful writing.
Unfortunately- this narrator - does not do the material justice. He seems to have put on a “Woodsy” character voice with a sing songy style that - to my mind - diminishes the seriousness - and humor - in the material.

A very shallow rendering of a very deep story.
If you can get past that - you may love this book!

I’d love to dive into “The Fields” next - but I’m not sure I will if it’s the same narrator.

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No plot, no development of characters…

The novel is pure description… leaving nothing g to imagine nor anticipate… there is no plot nor any real character development.

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Please Don’t Reincarnate Me In The Trees

First time reader of Conrad Richter though he is famous. Book group selection so had to read it. Found the backwoods setting, hard-scrabble lives, male characters so ignorant of feelings for their families , especially the women who held their lives together, hard to take. Found the reader monotonous and boring. Got more into it about 3/4 of the way through when a child disappeared. The last scenes with Wayward and husband the best.

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