AT times I was riveted to this novel at other times, truly bored, but the test, for me, anyway, is what I actually took away with me after reading it.
At 800++ pages in hardcover, all in 8 point (or did it just seem 8 point and was maybe 10 point type), you simply couldn't get away with a novel this long today.( Marketer would at the very least carve it up into a three volume boxed set), But, having said that, Alaska is a comprehensive (if in places ponderous) history of the Last Frontier from Big Bang to the Prudhoe Bay Pipeline. So it was - or perhaps so it seemed to be - with Alaska, one of Michener's last and longest historical novels about place. And like those historical mini-series (John Adams & The Crown come to mind) readers often come away form a Michener novel feeling like they've learned a lot, but hardly able to remember what they've learned.
A generation before streaming video and binge watching, Michener invented the epic historical miniseries, but in book form.
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