reading John Jakes ' North and South' . Its been on my wishlist for 6-7 years now and i've wanted to always read this trilogy. Set in the late sixteenth century it also educated me to a certain extent on how lived, i mean they actually lived reasoanbly and didnt roam around like barabarians. civilization wasnt a thing unheard of to them. The story moves to 1800's and 3-4 generations later the youngsters are on their way to join their army. I felt like someone had brutally cut me off from reading the masterpiece and that was no one but the author himself. The story kept me glued, they would have lived such interesting lives why cut them out of the picture.

'North and South' is the first part of the trilogy and John Jakes started his book in haste, fast forward to the 18th century kind of a man. That attitude of his zapped all my energy to read futher into the book, as i wanted to know what happened when Hazard left alone, and what happened when the Frenchman started growing rice. All that is raw and beautiful about the situation is left out in a desire to create the story and it incomprehensible and sits about in ones mind as a puzzle waiting to be unfolded except it wouldnt. The story would detail the new 6th or 7th generation characters effectively and wait wait wait wait wait.

perhaps that's how they write trilogies.