The Big Rock Candy Mountain Audiobook

" Enjoyable but so long that I never did get through the final chapters. I will go back someday. "

" As far as I'm concerned you can forget Updike and Roth and Bellow and all those other "great" American novelists - Stegner is the one to read! "

" Very good if you like sagas. Interesting because I live in salt lake city area and the end takes place in slc. A bit long would be my only critism. Excellent characters. "

" Decent. Well-written, but rather slow. Well developed characters. Reminds me of The Brothers K (which is possibly the best book ever written... aside from the first 100 pages) "

" I listened to this one and could barely do anything else for the week or so it took me. Now I am listening (re-reading) Angle of Repose, read by the same narrator. I gasped when I heard the voice he used for Bo Mason repeated for Oliver Ward. "

" Mostly because in interesting and not all too literally closely related ways, I feel like this is a story I could tell too, starting in 1981 instead back when Mr. Stegner wrote it. "

" This book, like the family whose story it chronicled, had its ups and downs. It was very dense and took a while to read, but all in all it was a good book. The writing was fantastic and the story was depressing, which I like. "

" I can't believe I enjoyed this book so much. Crossing to Safety is among my very favorite books of all time. This is a great American tale beautifully told. Now on to Angle of Repose. "

" One of the most depressing books I've ever read. Still fantastic though. "

" Follows the life of the Mason family "

" Found this book compeling yet so depressing. I know I could never deal with Bo the way Elsa does. I didn't know whether to admire her or think of her as a foolish woman of low self-esteem. "

" This is my third Wallace Stegner book that I have read. Another great Stegner book ! "

" Read The Big Rock Candy Mountain and be blown away by Stegner. Then take a minute to realize that he wrote this book in his early 20's. Wow. A masterful author shows us that writing about that which is dearest to you makes for powerful reading. "

" The most dismally depressing book I've ever read. "

" It isn't what I expected-but i generally enjoy long stories that traverse the years. It ended as i expected which was good but bad. "

" A beautiful tragic epic story of an American family in the first half of the 20th century. Dysfunction is present throughout the entire book, but the innocent optimism in the beginning is more powerful, even in the darkest of times. "

" Another all time favorites by one of the best authors! I love this long novel set in the west. It is epic and so great! You must read it! "

" Couldn't finish. The story is depressing with an abusive father and they just kept describing how to kill animals out on the farm.I was done saying to myself "it's got to get better". "

" I adore Stegner. Read and own nearly everything by him. "

" not my favorite Stegner book. "

" This is the first Wallace Stegner I was able to read all the way through. It's a good vacation book because the pacing is pretty slow. "

" Audiobook (Narrator: Mark Bramhall) Good narration. "

" Stegner IMO is the most underrated of 20th century writers. He should have had the Nobel prize before Steinbeck or Faulkner. This is his fictionalized autobiography, a wrenching story of a truly terrible childhood. I will never forget some of the scenes from it. "