Summerland: A Novel Audiobook

" The storytelling moves at a coyote Pace sometimes exhilarating and fast and other times slow and detailed. I love this book very deep and well written. "

" A fantasy book that gave me a bit more of an understanding of why my father loves baseball. "

" I think this is the best thing Chabon has ever written. Probably not for everyone though. Coyote, Axes Mundi, Stadiums built from the bones of giants, fairy ballplayers... "

" A delightful mish-mash of a lot of genres and myths. Chabon clearly deeply loves baseball (and deeply hates the designated-hitter rule) and combines that with some Native American and Norse mythology, the hero quest, some Irish folklore, and a dash of Narnia. Good fun all round with a solid emotional core, though probably even more enjoyable if you care about baseball, which I don't. I like fairies and Sasquatches, though. "

" This book was about a guy who hated baseball but finds out it ain't so bad after all. The only reason he had to go play baseball was because the little league having their playoffs summerlands needed a substitute and he was there only choice. As you reach the climax or middle you will learn plenty of changes about Ethan and his attitude towards summerland and baseball.The ending is amazingly surprisingly I just thought that the indians he meets or the players make you get confused with who's who since there are strangers and the people on the team.I recommend it to teenagers because people feel like they can't accomplish anything when there's overloaded work but using this mentor text is like the key to survival in completing what you thought you could never accomplish. Just like Ethan learned a new personality or trait and interest about himself that makes him unique and he finally figures out an important symbol that's recessive inside him. "

" Zach and I read this one together and while we finished it, we found it to be a little discontinuous and there were long stretches where we were not interested. But there were also parts that we read through quickly. It is a book that pulls in the myths of many different cultures to make one big "other world" type place that needs saving. It was fun to try to figure out where different myths were pulled from. "

" I was disappointed in this... "

" Didn't finish--I grew bored pretty quickly. I feel like I would have appreciated Summerland more if I were eleven years old. This young adult novel was a little too juvenile for me, and the talking animals weren't nearly as cool as the bears and daemons in The Golden Compass. "

" this book was a delight to read - mostly because of the baseball... "

" Kind of unmemorable, seeing as I read it fairly recently and cannot for the life of me remember what it was about. I remember it being fine though, so 3 stars. "

" Sometimes I felt like Michael Chabon just mashed up all the most random elements he could think of and then wrote this book. The world was not fully explore or explained, but generally it was an enjoyable. "

" It was kind of boring. The creatures are not original. "

" This was a great story. Although it starts off tragic, I love the way the story unfolds with each chapter. "

" Meeeehhhhhhhh...I don't care about any of the characters except maybe the main villain. "

" too much baseball for me "

" Field of dreams meets Lord of the Rings. "

" Part fable, part hero's journey, part study of baseball - all good! "

" How come so many of my favorite children/ya books are about baseball when it's not even my favorite game? But it is good. "

" I enjoyed this book so much. I need to buy it for my godson and my little cousin. "

" Best "children's book" since Alice in Wonderland. "

" Baseball? And fairies? Really odd combination, that's for sure, but it wasn't a bad way to spend time waiting for carpool kids. "

" Couldn't finish it. Too many mythologies thrown together. Too many names for everything! "

" Well written, fun and inventive. "

" I am doing some young adult book vetting for a buddy of ours in the hospital. This book is quirky, but fun so far. "

" I absolutely detested this book. It was soooo slow moving. I couldn't finish the last few chapters. "