What readers think of Founding Brothers, plus links to write your own review.

Summer reading is bad enough as it is, but this book definitely just kills any desire to read a book! I get through about 5 pgs and then fall asleep (literally). Its too bad because I guess it could have been a good book if it weren't so dense and was written with enthusiasm. I had to drop AP World because of a bad book and now I might have to drop AP US for this book! 1 out of 5 is being generous..if there was a 0 or a .5 would be a good rating. I can easily read a 500pg book in a week but this book has taken me about 2 wks and I'm not even 100pgs in.

This book is the most boring book I have ever tried to read. All that Eliis does is repeat the same thing over and over again. Maybe the book has a lot of good facts and ideas in it, but is it really necessary to repeat everything at least twice? I can' t belive anyone would recommend this book, or even that anyone would finish it! There isn't much to say besides FIND CLIFF NOTES or at least something that summarizes the book in less than 50 pages if you need to understand the book.

I can't understand this book at all. This is the most boring book I've ever had to read, and I will probably drop out of AP US History just so I don't have to continue to read it.

This book is the biggest piece of crap ever made! I would have rated it a zero if that was an option. If anything proves that this society is retarded, it is that this book won the Pulitzer Prize. I am considering dropping out of US AP History class because this is the type of book they make us read. Ellis is the worst author ever to hold a pen. He could have successfully written this book in about 50 pages. All he does is repeat himself over and over and over. If you have to read this book, just read the first five pages of every chapter. You will learn everything you need to know.

I am currently reading this book for AP US History. I usually read it right after finishing getting ready for bed because it puts me to sleep! I don't know how this got the Pulitizer Prize! We have to write an essay on each of the events due Wednesday (it is Monday) and I only have 2 done! A friend and I are doing the last 4 together because it is unbearable to do! Maybe this subject isn't my thing, but because of this book, I have officially taken History out of my possible majors list! I don't recommend this book to anyone ever!

I strongly abhore this novel. My professor recommended The Founding Brothers to me and so i was strongly displeased once i opened the cover. Ellis illustrates six crucial moments that shaped our country with redundantly repetative vocabulary and loses the overall effect of each narrative due to the fact each one is explained in detail over and over again. Ellis's first story about the Duel is rather intriguing but I found the stories to go downhill from that point on. If you have a lot of time on your hands and enjoy indepth coverage of stories from all perspectives then maybe you might enjoy the book; however for a collegiate reader, the book drags on page after page even though it is a short read.

I have to read this book for my AP US History class and it has been trying to get through it. I have to write a novel critique on it and it has been devastatingly difficult to analyze this book because it is so hard to stay focused on what Joseph J. Ellis is talking about. He analyzes these six moments in history so deeply that you get lost in between his thoughts and vocabulary. Maybe an older would appreciate this novel but I would not recommend this to anyone in or below college.

This book was very difficult to get through and hard to understand. It's hard to focus on, I still haven't finished reading it.