The story was just not as engaging as I had thought it wasd going to be. So I was really surprised when the book disappointed me so much. I recently slept through the Da Vinci Code movie but I'd stay awake until 3am reading the book. I'm not a film person and I sleep through most movies. I watched it in the eighties when I was a child and was still only learning English but I could not get over it. It is one of those rare books which has the ultimate humiliation of being surpassed by its film adaptaion. One expects so much from these modern classics. What was most disappointing about Colleen McCullough’s story? I know it's not allowed to say that about this great book but that is how I felt. I had so many and looked forward to finally reading it and was surprised to find that it was quite boring. And the land itself: stark, relentless in its demands, brilliant in its flowering, prey to gigantic cycles of drought and flood, rich when nature is bountiful, surreal like no other place on earth.This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more? Wonderful characters people this book: strong and gentle Paddy, hiding a private memory dutiful Fiona, holding back love because it once betrayed her violent, tormented Frank and the other hardworking Cleary sons who give the boundless lands of Drogheda the energy and devotion most men save for women Meggie Ralph and Meggie's children, Justine and Dane. It begins in the early part of the 20th century, when Paddy Cleary moves his wife, Fiona, and their seven children to Drogheda, the vast Australian sheep station owned by his autocratic and childless older sister and it ends more than half a century later, when the only survivor of the third generation, the brilliant actress Justine O'Neill, sets a course of life and love halfway around the world from her roots. The Thorn Birds is a robust, romantic saga of a singular family, the Clearys.
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