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Re-reading this book after, what, ten years? More? Sparked by an offhand comment from the Radio War Nerd podcast where Mark and John bring it up and say they prefer it to For Whom the Bell Tolls, because there's no romanticism here.
Funny how it was different than I remembered it. There was one part in particular I was waiting to show up, then realized it wasn't going to, now I'm wondering what WW1 novel I'm thinking of. Or was it in Dashiell Hammett or maybe The Sun Also Rises?
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Funny how it was different than I remembered it. There was one part in particular I was waiting to show up, then realized it wasn't going to, now I'm wondering what WW1 novel I'm thinking of. Or was it in Dashiell Hammett or maybe The Sun Also Rises?
There's a lot mor ...more
Absolutely ripped my heart out holy shit
A slow and sweet love story between two maverick characters, shadowed by a pacifistic and perhaps anarchistic narrative of a war (WWI) and a subtle cynically nihilist tone (life is out to break and kill us).
Love sucks, man.
Aug 29, 2020
Christopher Norman
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