Growth of the Soil

from Maryzenx

I am beginning "Growth of the Soil" by Knut Hamsun today. Library Thing thinks I won't like it, I bet I will. H.G. Wells gives smashing reviews on the back cover of my ragged paperback copy. This is, I must confess, the reason I picked up the book and put it in my pocket. Mr Wells says "I do not ...

from maryreinert

I read this years ago and remembered it as being outstanding. Tried it again just to see if my memory or my tastes had changed. Not at all! This is a beautifully written story that transends time or place. At first glance one wonders how the story of Norwegian peasants in the 19th century can be ...

from wunderkind

I have no idea how to describe this book: it seems like it should be the most boring story ever (man walks until he finds good land, man builds farm, man marries woman, man and woman have kids, and all of this without saying anything more than necessary), but it's absolutely engrossing and inspir...

from Ganeshaka

There's so much to like about this novel, but first you have to get past the title. Come on now - who browses a book about "growth" and "the soil"? An agricultural nerd at an Iowa community college? Think if "Gone With the Wind" had been called "The Politics of Cotton Farming"? We would be, like,...

from Ganeshaka

There's so much to like about this novel, but first you have to get past the title. Come on now - who browses a book about "growth" and "the soil"? An agricultural nerd at an Iowa community college? Think if "Gone With the Wind" had been called "The Politics of Cotton Farming"? We would be, like,...