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In Hawaii[/i] you'll meet characters you'll never forget--Amelia, Whipple, the missionary; the sea captain who founded a dynasty of sugar barons; the Chinese concubine who became a great banker; the gigalo beach boy who might have been king, and hundreds--literally hundreds--more!
ions said:Hmm. Yes and no. Hawaii does have several storylines of different families. Hayl, Hoxworth, the Chinese families, the Japanese families and even starting with the Bora Borans that first populate Hawaii. I consider these storylines to be more than loosely connected though. One of the things that makes Michener's epics like Hawaii so great is he tales these storylines and intertwines them so completely. Some characters never meet in the book yet still have influence over each other. Due to the length of Hawaii each storyline does not feel like a short story in of itself, they are pieces that when combined become a much greater whole. The character's do develop as do their children and their children's children. In fact there's a accolade for the book printed on the first page of my copy from the Saturday review:
I can't disagree with that.
igbomb said:I'm in the middle of Tales of the South Pacific right now. Very good book so far.
Are all of his books written similar to this one? TotSP is several short stories that are very loosely connected (and sometimes not at all). I was thinking of reading Hawaii at some point, but the reason I read epics is to read well-developed characters that grow as the book progresses. TotSP does not really have that element.