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

This book was the most boring thing besides American Polity that I have had the displeasure of being forced to waste my time reading. It is not a novel or anything, the author doesn't even seem to know. And it won the pulitzer prize how?.....

Founding Brothers was a deplorable read, done only because I had to for a class. First of all -- what is it? A text book or a novel -- the author couldn't really decide. Secondly, Ellis spends more time trying to impress us with esoteric and large words [that oftentimes can be replaced with an equally meaningful, more succinct, and more readily understood short word] and sentence structure, that the book becomes a pedantic affair, losing any of its original power [whew..run-on sentence]. The content itself is boring, and although it replaced reading our text book in my history class, it didn't make the class any better. To the person who is terribly interested in the Revolutionary Generation, by all means, read brothers. For everyone else, spare yourself the time and money.

The general case supporting brothers is the way the founding fathers are given personalities. I think that this takes up space, and adds little to the experience. The characters behave exactly as you would think -- with the possible exception being Adams who is glorified as the book's "protagonist".

In summation, brothers is a rather odd thing, and I question the Pulitzer board's sanity...

A great book if you are looking for something to help you go to sleep.

The book was very interesting in the first pages of each chapter, but then the diction and the syntax that was chosen by the author made it very confusing for the reader. The structure of the book is excellent, but there is no purpose for the reader to try to understand the structure if he or she can not understand the book.

This book is extremely hard to understand, it doesn't grab a persons attention much. It's very long and boring to read, it's not interesting at all

This book is absolutely terrible. I started it in the beginning of the summer and have been avoiding the thought of it ever since. Just opening the book and looking at it depresses me, because I know reading it will only last a good 5 minutes until I get too confused and discouraged and inevitably give up for the day. As if that wasn't enough, there aren't even ANY clif notes out there! All I need is something to break the book down for me. Oh well...only a couple of days for me to read this book now, so I suppose I should attempt to once again. Wish me luck...because I have yet to finish Jane Eyre either.

ellis' style of writing can be too analytical for younger hs students. i was often confused while reading each 40 page chapter because it is too easy to get caught up in the overload of background information, and over analyzing. i found that i had only read 10 pages within an hour of trying to concentrate. but other than the difficulty of trying to follow the initial story/situation after 30 pages of background information, it was not all that bad. then again-i still have 70 more pages to go.

Its a hard to read book and its extreamly boreing. Each Chapters try to tie you in with a creative storey but then puts you to sleep with the next 30 pages of analyzation of analyzation of each event. I have put this book off all summer now i have less then 48 hours to read it and it probalbly won't get done.