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DALE EDWARD MUCKERMAN
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"Sons is the follow up to Pearl Buck’s masterpiece, The Good Earth. It is not half as good as The Good Earth. The characters in Sons are not likable and not very interesting. Most of the book deals with the third son who is all into being a warl..."
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Second in the trilogy that began with The Good Earth, Buck's classic and starkly real tale of sons rising against their honored fathers tells of the bitter struggle to the death between the old and the new in China. Revolutions sweep the vast...
"The Good Earth reminded me of two other great books: Knut Hamsun’s Growth of the Soil and O. E. Rølvaag’s Giants in the Earth. All of these novels tell rather mythic tales of a farmer’s struggle with, and love of, the land. Such tales are univers..."
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