Cold Comfort: Life at the Top of the Map

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Summary: what memories
Review: Although I grew up in northeastern Minnesota and was driven away by the cold, I am always drawn back to Duluth and Lake Superior. (Duluth is an incredibly beautiful place and for a city it's size has a thriving arts community.) Barton Sutter makes me want to move to Duluth. He describes the characters, the landscape, the lake, the weather...everything which makes Duluth so special...in his own unique style. In a few chapters he talks about the BWCA, but I didn't feel that this detracted from the main concept of the book. Mr. Sutter is to be congratulated for making this city come alive for me.

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Summary: Reader from Israel
Review: An excellent book, and to think that if I had never lived in Duluth I would have missed out on such a great author. He reminded me of Bill Bryson in a way, another one of my favorites!

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Summary: Review for Cold Comfort
Review: Barton Sutter is an amazing writer. He uses his creativeness to express his feelings about the beautiful city of Duluth. Not only did I enjoy "Cold Comfort," but I enjoyed learning more about Barton Sutter. He seems to be a brilliant man with a lot of positive energy. The book highlights points of Duluth and Lake Superior that I've never heard of before or considered. I'm new to the city of Duluth; during my winter break, I'm going to take some time to visit the places that Sutter talked about in "Cold Comfort." He really inspired me about the city of Duluth and I look forward to getting to know the city better!

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Summary: A Great Book to Read
Review: Barton Sutter's book "Cold Comfort" is great. The book mainly focuses on Duluth including the Boundry Waters and Lake Superior. Sutter writes about Duluth like hes lived here thousands of years and he hasn't, thats what makes this book so interesting. The great detail he uses on describing the territory is great and constantly breath taking. I strongly recomend this book to you and everyone else who lives in Duluth.

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Summary: A Great Book to Read
Review: Barton Sutter's book "Cold Comfort" is great. The book mainly focuses on Duluth including the Boundry Waters and Lake Superior. Sutter writes about Duluth like hes lived here thousands of years and he hasn't, thats what makes this book so interesting. The great detail he uses on describing the territory is great and constantly breath taking. I strongly recomend this book to you and everyone else who lives in Duluth.

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Summary: Loved It!
Review: Barton Sutter's book, "Cold Comfort", came to me as a Christmas gift from my son-in-law. He and my daughter live in Duluth, and it seemed a fitting gift to provide an apparent travelogue about their northern hometown. Suspecting a boring book, I nevertheless tasted the first chapter. I felt as though I'd held up a mirror to my soul. The Duluth and northern Minnesota setting is merely the pretense of the book, whereas its real merit is in seeing life in a refreshing simplicity, in a no-holds-barred honesty. Barton cuts through much of the fluff in our modern world, not deliberately, but almost accidentally while telling us his truth. Each chapter is enjoyed like the day's first cup of coffee. When the mind is rested and open, I sip in another short essay to settle me down and warm my day. Great book; great writer.

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Summary: A great book to read
Review: Cold Comfort is a great book to read. It's a book about Barton's journals on Northern Minnesota. His book focuses on his life, activities, and the Boundry Waters the gateway to true camping. Being a Duluth residend I found this book truly explains why we can stand Duluth's unusal climate. This book was on of the best I've read.

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Summary: Really Good Cold
Review: I attended college at what was then called Wisconsin State University-Superior in the late sixties. I was from Philadelphia and I quickly got into this college to avoid the draft. So did many eastern draftable men. Imagine my surprise when I landed at Duluth Airport in January and stepped into a sheet of frozen air that made the hairs in my nose stiffen like pins.
Barton Sutter describes Duluth and Superior exactly the way people live there. Yes, people live there and they are nice people, but as Sutter shows, they ain't like you and me. They live in snow drifts nine months of the year.
Then there's Lake Superior or as Barton describes it, GOD. The lake is an ocean and it's everywhere. Barton describes fishing, hiking ,canoeing, and reading maps for a hobby. Somewhere in those dark winters he gets a divorce, is involved with a suprisingly active art community, and then gets married again. The prose is perfect. The description of rugged Minnesota and Wisconsin is terrific. Forget Vanity Fair and the New Yorker. Experience ice fishing at thirty below.

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Summary: Like driving up I-35 to Lake Superior...
Review: This book is written in the style of choice of authors from Minnesota--their own take on informal yarn. If you like the style then you'll probably love the book. This is especially true of people that once lived in the region. However, from my experience one can only take twenty to thirty pages of it. Also, Sutter does not fully let people into the quirkiness of the Twin Ports and I feel that outsiders that have never experienced the isolated culture will still feel somewhat in the dark after reading this book. However, locals who want to delude themselves into thinking that Sutter has finally brought long-awaited and deserved fame to the Twin Ports will enjoy this read. In addition, people from Superior, WI will most likely be offended by what Sutter has to say about the "other side of the bay." Even for a critic of Superiorite culture, what Sutter had to say concerning the poor decrepit place was a bit hard to swallow. Therefore, if you're from the Twin Ports, enjoy yourselves and indulge your own sense of hometown pride.