A Land Remembered | Patrick Smith | A fine book for anyone interested in Florida Crackers

A Land Remembered | Patrick Smith | Amazing

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A Land Remembered

	A Land Remembered Patrick Smith Pineapple Pr, 1996 - 404 pages average customer review:based on 78 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A fine book for anyone interested in Florida Crackers

I am not a fiction reader first off. I was sitting next to another Florida native on a plane and we were talking about how we gre up in Florida, the real Florida, not part of the huge subdivision that has swept up most of our state. I read some of the other reviews and while I realize that everyone gets something different out of a book, I was surprised to read some of the content of negative reviews. Sure, this book isn't written for someone that is reading it to make sure it has all of the elements of a style guide for writint a book, but I thoroughly enjoyed the book and did not feel like anything was left undone.

There may not be a detailed character development, but that was fine for me. I'll fall asleep half the time when someone is giving me every detail about a person or a scene. I like to use my imagination and picture a charater for myself. What this book has is content of character, not filler describing characters. I know exactly what Tobias, Emma, Frog, Bonzon, Sol, Skillet, and all of the others look like. Thay will probably be completely different for you, but to me that is what makes this book worth reading. I thoroughly enjoyed it and I think you would too.

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Amazing

I was given this book when I was fifteen by my father to read and my eyes rolled into the back of my head thinking it would be one his boring historical novels. Much to my pleasant surprise it turned out to be one of the best books I have ever read (and I have read quite a few). Not only does it give many historical truths about the land (which I can verify having family settled in FL in the 1820's) but it also gives a mix of every virtue that makes a book great-friendship, love, adventure, tragedy, and substance. I would recommend this book to anyone and everyone given non-FL natives, men, and women alike can relate to this book.

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One of my favorites

I grew up in Florida but have lived out-of-state for several years. This book made me pine for my home state. I remember big sprawling cattle ranches like the book described. My dad used to take me hunting on some property he owned with several men. The palmettos, boar, gators, deer, armadillos were common place. Like the setting of A Land Remembered. Every time I go back to visit I see another piece of "old Florida" being swallowed up by developments, malls and sprawl. This book was so enlightening too. I never thought about how the early Florida settlers lived. This book also reminded me of The Yearling. I have bought several as gifts for my Florida friends.

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All problems solved quickly

This book is interesting for the details of early days of Florida. It is unrealistic in that all problems and conflicts are resolved in about three spoken sentences. Indians living deep in the swamps speak good English. People live in malarial Florida for years before getting the disease. Still, the story gallops along and the characters are interesting enough that you want to know what happens. If "Cold Mountain" is a 10, "A Land Remembered" is a 5.

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