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Mixed emotions on this book. I wanted to like it and at times the imagery was so vivid that I felt I was in this never-ending battle and trudging right alongside 'the youth.' But I also found the lack of names distracting. I don't want to take the time to analyze this book. I wanted to like it more than I did. But in the end I was merely glad the battle was over, though I left with this disquieting feeling that there would be another just like it around the corner.
Maybe if I had just...read it. ...more
Maybe if I had just...read it. ...more
Dec 06, 2020
Marie (UK)
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it was ok
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review of another edition
Shelves:
2020-reading-challenge
Although this was an early classical example of its genre it failed to draw me in. I didn't like the colloquial dialogue its like trying to interpret a narrative twice. It felt heavy and plodding in nature. I didnt get a good sense of its main characters at all
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Jun 11, 2009
Tweller83
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it was ok
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review of another edition
Shelves:
historical-fiction,
war-stories
Had to read this in school but didn't enjoy it. Too much about war (obviously that's what it is about) which I don't care to read about. One of those "must read" books for school.
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Oct 14, 2008
Mandy Hornsby
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Lauren
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Jul 05, 2015
Wysteria
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it was ok
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no-longer-own,
read-2015
Jul 19, 2015
Jim Townsend
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Jan 14, 2016
Paula S
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Erika
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Sep 23, 2018
Theresa Wright
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Apr 01, 2021
Deepa Patel
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