Customer Reviews

Great Alone

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Now, July, 1999, I've just read this "Great Alone." While the personal relationship stories are told well enough (but not unusual in style) the historical research necessary to have covered this long historical period, with unusual details, has impressed me greatly. I lived in two of the towns that figure in the book during the late 1940s, had done considerable reading about these areas, but learned a lot that I hadn't known. I always trust "my" authors to have done their homework (or have someone do it for them), and Ms.Dailey has certainly won my admiration for background material

I bought this book at a yard sale years ago. I haven't been able to stop reading it. I have read it from cover to cover many times. The spine is broken and the pages are coming loose, yet i still pick it up at least once a year to read. Everytome i read it, it feels like a new book. So many characters and such a huge span of time. I'm not usually one for romance in my books, but this was a perfect blend. Great book!

I've read this book three times; once before moving to Alaska, once after living here for a year, and again after living here for 15 years. The book was different each time and it wasn't until the third time through that I wasn't absolutely sure that I loved it. Yes, some of the stories (especially toward the end of the book) are corny and have an eye-rolling quality but I didn't feel that it ruined the entire book. The history is wonderful and very interesting and definitely makes up for the small flaws here and there. I do recommend this one...

I had thought Janet Daily wrote romance-genre , book club books, not my thing. I bought "The Great Alone" for a friend who had lost her copy, and she insisted I read it before giving it to her.
In addition to the author, the book had two strikes against it: a map (which never has all the references made in the text), and a family-tree (which signals lots of characters not easily remembered).
Well--the story line is okay, the detailed knowledge of life in what is now Alaska for a two hundred year span is impressive and makes a very interesting and fast read.

doing a lot of traveling and this will be perfect - my laptop will even fit inside
well organized and just the right size

What made this book really hard to get in to , Is the fact that you don`t get time to really care for the characters. Practically every other chapter is about someone new. I must say that the History part was very interesting. I just think that it could`ve been shorter.

I'm very disapointed with this book. It's very, very boring. When she stop describing the place and beggins the story, you're almost sleeping... Then, when the story envolves you, She jump 30 years and start all the description again, with the son's and daughters of the first couple. I really don't like it. I'm disapointed because I LOVED all Janet Dailey's books (well, til now).