Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.4 / 5.0

A new old fashioned novel:

I have been a fan of Christopher Bram's, and have read all of his books. This book takes him into totally new territory. Dr. August tells us his story in an easy, true, fantastic, old fashioned way. I read this book and believed that the narator had been there, back in a past that is long gone. It didn't feel researched. It's rare that contemporary fiction can give you the cosy feeling fiction of the 19th century that this book did. The love stories in this book are true, complex and deep. We see both the... more info

Music to the Eyes:

Christopher Bram is one of my favorite writers and his talent is displayed excellently here. I must admit at first, I was not excited about reading this Civil War era novel, but once I started it I was taken over and captivated until the last page. Some books you forget soon after you finished them, but this novel still stays with me. The story revolves around a man named Dr. August, his fellow slave (and one time lover)Issac Kemp who loses his heart to a white governess, Alice Pangbourn. It appears at... more info

Tedious Dr. August:

"The Notorious Dr. August" is one of the few books I've read this year that I regret finishing. My instinct was to jump ship as soon as the clumsily woven-in Alice diaries began, and that was a good instinct. Things never quite recovered after that, and I ended up disliking the book and all its major characters. I can enjoy a book without sympathetic characters, but Fitz and Alice and Isaac didn't engage me for very long; each one was tedious in a different way. I remember admiring "Father of Frankenstein,"... more info

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