![The Fires of Spring](https://nationalbookswap.com/pbs/m/92/6492/9780449206492.jpg)
![](/images/spacer.gif?v=90afaeb39)
Gene W. (Roy45) - reviewed on + 5 more book reviews
I have read almost all of James Michener's books and this is by far his worst. It is preachy and moralizing and on every other page, the characters have a "break through" in their understanding of life, but it has no effect or improvement on their impoverishd lives. It is a depressing novel and its hard to find a point in why it was written. Michener wrote it in 1949 and perhaps it is in a way his own coming of life as a novelist,but there is no feeling of having learned anything by reaching its long end, just a feeling that finally I am done with this book and its depressing characters.