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Giants in the Earth (Cliff Note's Edition)

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I had to read this book in high school in New Jersey in the late 1950's...I loved it then and and was able to find a copy of my own published in 1928. I have read it several times since. I was also able to acquire a paperback copy of PEDER VICTORIOUS, a follow on book. These books give you a real feeling of the way life was and makes you wish you knew these people

I couldn't stop reading this amazing book once I had started. There is a intricate mixture of folklore, fantasy, and the cutting reality of life in the days of the pioneers. There was something almost haunting about the power that the untamed land held over the characters in the novel. Rolvaag writes his characters with a lucidity and truthfulness that is almost on a mythical level.

Very,very boring in the beggining but then turns out to be pretty good, actually great. I thought it was going to be a horrible book at first because we had to read it for literature class. But read it, it is good!

This is a book that I return to year after year. It is a triumph; you will laugh and cry with these people who are truly the godparents of all of us who live in this country, regardless of our race or culture. It's about struggle, yes, but also about success and failure and life and death. It's about family and community and if I were asked to recommend one good book to read on a wintry night, this would be it.

Very,very boring in the beggining but then turns out to be pretty good, actually great. I thought it was going to be a horrible book at first because we had to read it for literature class. But read it, it is good!

I read this book in High School. It was one of those novels we were forced to read for a literature class, and I picked it up only because I had to. Yet, despite the fact that I was not (at the age of 16) particularly intrigued by the description printed on the back cover, once I got into it I couldn't put it down. This book takes it's characters through long, lonely, snow covered winters which were so real (an so similar to my experiences as a resident of Wisconsin) that the images have stayed with me over the years (10+, so far - if you must know). The affect the isolation and the harshness of the climate have on the minds of the central characters is brutal, yet fascinating - another series of descriptions which have remained imbedded in my brain over time. If you liked the movie Fargo, but are in the mood for something more serious, you'll want to read this

"Giants in the Earth" was a tale of life in the early west US. Filled with adventures and tragedy. It truely is a "Giant" of a book

When I read the title of the book, I was immediately interested in reading the rest of the book. The beginning of the book is sort of boring and has lots of details, but after you get into the story line you begin to feel for the characters, and you realize that they have gone through alot to get here. This book is based on the authors journey to america, and includes many of the hardships that he went through as well. I would recommend this book to any one who wants a feel good book to read on a rainy day, and if you like the first one there are two more books in the trilogy: "Peder Victorious" and "Our Fathers God." Have fun reading these exellent novels!!