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  <title><![CDATA[Three Soldiers]]></title>
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  <default_description>Part of the generation that produced Ernest Hemingway and Ford Madox Ford, John Dos Passos wrote one of the most grimly honest portraits of World War I. &lt;i&gt;Three Soldiers&lt;/i&gt; portrays the lives of a trio of army privates: Fuselli, an Italian American store clerk from San Francisco; Chrisfield, a farm boy from Indiana; and Andrews, a musically gifted Harvard graduate from New York. Hailed as a masterpiece on its original publication in 1921, &lt;i&gt;Three Soldiers&lt;/i&gt; is a gripping exploration of fear and ambition, conformity and rebellion, desertion and violence, and the brutal and dehumanizing effects of a regimented war machine on ordinary soldiers.</default_description>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dos Passos hadn't found his voice yet, and &quot;Three Soldiers&quot; drags a bit, but it's a worthwhile sampling of an author whose best was yet to come. It's a classic only in the sense that his U.S.A. trilogy would be one, and all of Dos Passos' work would therefore become lumped into the &quot;c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77985447">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[John Dos Passos is an author whom I had never read before but I am most assuredly happy to have found his works. &quot;Three Soldiers&quot; is an exceptionally well written book which gives the reader a fabulous look inside the emotional side of being a soldier during WWI. I hate spoilers so all I w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49379357">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A somewhat misleading title. Though Dos Passos does focus on the experiences of three American soldiers fighting in the Great War, one of them assumes importance and garners significantly more words over the other two. That this character, John Andrews, is really the only self-aware one of the three...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8184026">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Most of the great American modernist books are forgotten, passed over for Faulkner (eh) and Hemingway (double eh). But Three Soldiers is doubly neglected, because to the (very limited) extent that people still rad Dos Passos, it's pretty much Manhattan Crossing and the U.S.A trilogy. The trilogy is ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3366875">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The lives of several individuals caught in the WWI army where &quot;all legs are made the same length on the marching fields&quot;. Unlike All's Quiet, Dos Passos does not deal with the horrors of war, but rather with the dehumanizing aspect of military service where death in combat or a lifetime in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53937690">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book. I wouldn't recommend because of all the swear words but it shows the reality of war. But I read it for English class and it is packed with symbolism! It was one of the few papers that I actually enjoyed doing.]]></body>
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    <review id="13919496">
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    <body><![CDATA[In this scintilating modernist novel, John Dos Passos continually bludgeons the reader with the astounding knowledge that being a soldier in World War I was actually fairly shitty. Not totally without merit, I just think it's not my cup of tea.]]></body>
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    <review id="26751528">
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    <body><![CDATA[A good writer takes a tale of World War I and turns it into something unexpected, something that turns ideas of who are the heroes and who are the enemies on its head. Well done.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my favorite book on war I have ever read, which says a lot since I hate war and I generally don't like books on it.  Hemingway, eat your heart out!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hemmingway totally rips this off for A Farewell to Arms which isn't half as good as this one.  A classic modern novel of WWI.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Alongside Mailer's Naked and the Dead, this is one of the best books that deals with the psychological impact of war.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am enraptured by the way these characters view their worlds.  It's unbelievable how great Dos Passos really was.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Disjointed and somewhat tedious.  Not really a war novel.]]></body>
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