Title: Not up to Snow
Product review: The Kirkus reviewer was wrong; many people have been disappointed by this novel, and I'm one of them.Snow Falling on Cedars had a lot to it--a love story, a mystery story, a war story, and a story of the shabby treatment of the Japanese during WWII. I'm usually not much interested in descriptions of scenery, but in SFOC, I found them enjoyable and integral to the plot. Here, the descriptions just sat there, doing nothing.Here is a man who is planning to kill himself but gets quite bent out of shape when he cuts his head in an auto accident (wasn't he wearing a seat belt?). I laughed out loud.He seems quite concerned about his injured dog but seems to have no feeling for the birds he wantonly shoots.The story went nowhere, and the few possibly interesting characters Ben meets along the way are not developed.
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