false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165553447m/5872.jpg 5872 16 <b>Regeneration</b>, one in Pat Barker's series of novels confronting the psychological effects of World War I, focuses on treatment methods during the war and the story of a decorated English officer sent to a military hospital after publicly declaring he will no longer fight. Yet the novel is much more. Written in sparse prose that is shockingly clear -- the descriptions of electronic treatments are particularly harrowing -- it combines real-life characters and events with fictional ones in a work that examines the insanity of war like no other. Barker also weaves in issues of class and politics in this compactly powerful book. Other books in the series include The Eye in the Door and the Booker Award winner The Ghost Road. 9250 1991 Regeneration total:1498|5:528|4:579|3:288|2:83|1:20| 1498 6006 2152 194 4 3 false false Fri Sep 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 09 06:11:55 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 04 02:37:42 -0700 2008 2 more...]]> 5 2 false false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999 Thu Aug 21 10:08:39 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 21 10:11:13 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 1 true false Sat Sep 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 00:25:37 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 02:21:58 -0700 2009 1
I am giving this book one star because it is overrated, self-serving junk. Pat Barker has plucked from history characters that were perfectly capable of speaking fo...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Mar 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 17:14:01 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 17:16:56 -0700 2009 5 1 false false Sun May 11 17:37:30 -0700 2008 Sun May 11 17:39:53 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Oct 10 11:05:54 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 11:36:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Sep 16 14:05:36 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 14:28:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Sep 07 15:23:19 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 15:27:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 14:23:45 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 14:36:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 21:06:24 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 21:49:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jun 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 15:24:31 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 15:30:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jul 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 04 11:30:26 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 06:19:46 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 10:57:18 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 11:10:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Nov 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 12:25:02 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 14:18:25 -0800 2009 One of the nice things about serving afternoon tea to newly arrived patients was that it made so many neurological tests redundant. (10)
A beautifully sensitive examination of the psychology of shell shock in the First World War, framed around the real-life figures of poets Siegfried Sassoon an...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Aug 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 10:29:19 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 09 09:50:57 -0700 2009
"Ranged at intervals around the walls, big heavy pieces of furniture squatted on their own shadows" (153).

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Siegfried Sassoon is a young British officer in WWI who refuses to continue serving in the trenches due to the utter insanity of the war. He is shipped back to England to "recover" in a mental institution, where a psychiatrist is assigned to cure...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Aug 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 17:59:49 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 12:44:55 -0700 2009 All Quiet on the Western Front, I realized that several more of the novels from the Guardian's 1000 Novels list dealt with World War I in some way, and thought it would be good to read some more of them. I picked up the first and last of this trilogy at a local used book sale and they ...more...]]> 0 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 27 07:20:09 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 27 07:28:10 -0800 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=5872