Nick Hornby's High Fidelity: A Reader's Guide (Continuum Contemporaries)

Great book. Great trilogy. Recommend to anyone, male or female, young (14 and up) or old. I read the trilogy many years ago. While homeschooling, I had one of my sons read all three books and write a book report on each one. He was in the 9th grade at the time. At first, he rebelled against the setting the books were written in, preferring a more modern or sci-fi theme, but soon became engrossed in the details of the lifestyle... Read Full Review

All of the books in Conrad Richter's trilogy are superb. I am a descendant of people just like these, at the same time of Richter's story, and I spent much of my childhood there in Ohio living a way of life that is nearly gone. The past of my people became so rich, real, and alive through the writing.

Richter loses no time establishing THE FIELDS as a direct and strong descendant of THE TREES. With no time wasting, he recreates the forest and Sayward's battle against the "big butts," those mammoth trees blocking out the sun. Her relationship with her man, Portius Wheeler the lawyer, seems at first to strengthen: seven kids in all, and a childhood tragedy once again accepted. We readers wonder how she can stay so strong,... Read Full Review

All of the Trilogy Books are wonderful, I loved all three of them and you will find yourself wanting to read each book over and over again. " The Fields" gives a person a different perspective on life and grows not to take the way we have things now not for granted as much. "The Fields" really shows us how it was in the past in settler times.

Conrad Richter's "The Fields" is the middle book of his "Awakening Land" trilogy, and is no less powerful than the first, "The Trees," with its authentic use of pioneer speech and dialects, and its realistic depiction of the triumphs and tragedies of real Americans. Set in the original "West" of Ohio, "The Fields" continues the story of Sayward Luckett Wheeler as she and her growing family settle their land and deal with... Read Full Review