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David Guterson is thus granted Serious Writer status for having buried a murder mystery under sonorous tautologies (Snow Falling on Cedars, 1994), while Stephen King, whose Bag of Bones (1998) is a more intellectual but less pretentious novel, is still considered to be just a very talented genre storyteller.

A Reader's Manifesto 2001

David Guterson is thus granted Serious Writer status for having buried a murder mystery under sonorous tautologies (Snow Falling on Cedars, 1994), while Stephen King, whose Bag of Bones (1998) is a more intellectual but less pretentious novel, is still considered to be just a very talented genre storyteller.

A Reader's Manifesto 2001

And that is before you get to massaging, kneading, stretching, rubbing, pinching, flicking, feathering, licking, kissing and gently biting – which occurs in just one sentence thanks to David Guterson.

Bad sex awards: the contenders for a night at the In and Out 2011

–For lush sensuousness of scene under the cedar between innocent youth on the brink of the moral eruption of their heretofore unmarked lives, and for twists of plot, Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

Interview with Susan Vreeland 2010

Charles Solomon on The Other by David Guterson: "Inevitably, those comparisons will take the form of 'It's no" Snow

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In an unsuccessful attempt to disguise the sheer improbability of the story and the underdeveloped characters who wander through it, Guterson buries the reader in meaningless facts ....

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** Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson -- but this must be read VERY critically, because significant things are glossed over -- go to Google for analyses of this book, and forget the movie

"THE WAR", OURS AND THEIRS -- PROPAGANDA AS BRAIN DAMAGE Maggie Jochild 2007

Guterson, who lives on Bainbridge Island, a Puget Sound community much like the town in his book, is already a regional literary star.

'Snow' On Top 2008

Guterson loads -- and sometimes overloads -- his novel with lyrical touches, starting with that haiku-y title; and he uses the issue of Japanese-American internment during World War II to give his story a Big Theme.

'Snow' On Top 2008

And echoing Harper Lee, Guterson conjures up a vision of idyllic youth that nobody had and everybody wanted.

'Snow' On Top 2008