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Title: The Mammoth Cheese
Author: Sheri Holman
Narrator: Laural Merlington
Format: Unabridged
Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-27-08
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 6 votes
Genres: Fiction, Literary
Publisher's Summary:
The cheese is the brainchild of August Vaughn, a farmhand by day and a President Jefferson impersonator by night, and the creation of Margaret Prickett, a single mother and cheese maker trying to save her century-old family farm. As Margaret slips deeper into debt and desperation, her 13-year-old daughter, Polly, slides closer to an inappropriate relationship with her radical, attentive history teacher.
Members Reviews:
Not as riveting as I had hoped
This may be interesting but the narrator's voice changes were at times did more to distract than add.
Not interesting or exciting
I found this book to be lackluster and quite boring. The plot was tedious and overwritten. The book never drew me in, I never felt like I was in the story. In the end, I just wanted to be done with the book and forget I ever read it.
Give this one a miss
I picked this book up at a Book Exchange and took a gamble on it since it was a hard-cover book without the slip cover to give any information on what the book was about. It turned out to be a disappointment, but I managed to get through it to the end.
Fortunately, the 2nd half had more substance, but it wasn't enough to save this book. It is a discombobulated story about a woman who delivered 11 children after fertility drugs. Add in a woman who is about to lose her farm and along the way discovers that the man she has taken for granted for 13 years may be more than a friend.
Top this off with a new President being elected and the community deciding to reenact delivering a "mammoth cheese" to him. Too absurd to really explain.
Would give this book a miss!
Diana Young- World Traveler - currently sailing in the South Pacific for six month and #1 Amazon Best-selling author of Financial Fitness for Beginners.
breathtaking read
What do Thomas Jefferson impersonators, cheesemakers, cows, drug-induced multiple births, and presidential elections have to do with each other? Everything, if you read this remarkable novel. I had this book for a number of years and didn't read it because the title just didn't appeal to me. I bought it because I loved the author's previous novel, "The Dress Lodger". I am happy to say, I loved this book as much as her previous ones. I am amazed at her range of writing with such authority of different locales and even time periods. Her talent for description from everything from a piece of hail bouncing off from an umbrella to the interior of a dairy barn are so refined and beautiful that I feel I was actually living in some of the scenes. I especially enjoy reading a book that makes you work a little appreciate all the nuances of the writer. I loved this book, the characters, the story, and the magnificent prose of this gifted author. I read for many reasons, but this author makes me realize that one of the main reasons is the pure enchantment of old-time story telling, done by a master craftsman.
Penance Reading
Offer it up for the souls in Purgatory. That's the only reason to finish this book. The main character, Margaret, is beyond quirky. Maggie is one of those delusional characters who seem to be drawn from the symptoms list in a Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. In fact, every character in the book is quirky in a "Northern Exposure" way - interesting for a bit, not increasingly annoying as the book continues.
