What readers think of Snow Falling On Cedars, plus links to write your own review.

It starts off very long and drawn out, and I had this for a group book project and... well let’s say it’s a little inappropriate for a group of sophomores.

I cant even get past the first three chapters. It puts me to sleep.

I could not get past the first few pages. At first it moves to slow, then it picks up, but it stays pretty slow.

it needs to get more to the point instead of telling who everyone is, it is kind of boring to read also and they should have introduced the people and what is happening before the trial so it would be more easier to understand and more intresting.

blah too long needs to get to the point sooner and the love story can be cut out!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry to all those Snow fans out there but I found this book very poor. Guterson doesn't like to be subtle (he points out too many things like the obvious links between his name and missing arm, to Moby Dick's Ishmael and Ahab's missing leg). Stuff like that cluttered the novel and became very patronising. Don't get me started about the final line of the novel. He rubs in the heart/Chambers motiff far too deep. *Cringe* I also found his dialogue appalling. And what is his obsession with male genitals??? Not my cup of tea.

Gracie
I also had to read this book for school, and found it incredibly slow going and boring. It doesn't seem relevant crime fiction at all, and is more a love story than a novel about anything else...I do think that the book was way too long, and the ending kind of disappointing. It brought up good moral and ethical points, but was way too heavy going for me.

Johnny D
Look, this guy has a good story, but he just isn't a very good writer. He goes into LONG descriptions of scenery, etc. in a way reminiscent of Dickens but nowhere near as good. Dickens was cute when he tried to thicken his books, Guterson is just boring. He actually begins to trip over his own descriptive words, using "miasma" and "implacable snow" like a hundred times. He is under the high-school impression that more details and more vocab are always good. Snow Falling on Cedars really does read like it was written by a high school student. He even pulls the Si-Fi trick of including a made-up map! That's just dumb.