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May 03, 2018
PattyMacDotComma
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it was amazing
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5★
“The good thing, Darky told himself, was that it was still dark. He was wet and weary, but he could rest a few more hours. Darky was always looking for the good thing, no matter how small, and consequently he often found it.”
That’s exactly how I felt, reading this book. The abominations that were inflicted on Australian POWs and ‘slaves’ on the Burma Railway in WW2 are as sickening as anything that happened in a medieval dungeon or I imagine (shudder) in cave-man days.
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“The good thing, Darky told himself, was that it was still dark. He was wet and weary, but he could rest a few more hours. Darky was always looking for the good thing, no matter how small, and consequently he often found it.”
That’s exactly how I felt, reading this book. The abominations that were inflicted on Australian POWs and ‘slaves’ on the Burma Railway in WW2 are as sickening as anything that happened in a medieval dungeon or I imagine (shudder) in cave-man days.
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Dec 21, 2013
Magdalena
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In the present tense of Richard Flanagan's The Narrow Road to the Deep North, protagonist Dorrigo Evans is a celebrated surgeon, lauded for his work, his bravery, and perhaps for his larrikinism, as he continues to have intense affairs, even in his eighties. As with all of Flanagan’s work, the book is not an easy read, asking the reader to suspend a sense of natural progression as the narrative moves between present and past in random motion that also confuses these things as we slide in and out
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Loved it. the writing is superb and the relationships between men are so well drawn they are almost heart-breaking. the romantic relationship really pulled my heart-strings as well. I couldn't make it last long enough is my only complaint, although it is brutal.
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South - West Tasmania, an area beloved to Richard Flanagan, was once described as having "a terrible beauty". This would be a fitting description of this novel. Brilliantly written, it is brutal, tragic and haunting. but at the same time it has a focus on all that is real in people's lives, even when it is not. Terrific.
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Sep 24, 2013
Tien
marked it as lost-interest
shelving book for now as interrupted by morning sickness mid-way and will have to restart one day...
Sep 06, 2013
Shelleyrae at Book'd Out
marked it as to-read
May 28, 2014
Carly Bowden
marked it as to-read
Sep 09, 2014
Nancy
marked it as to-read
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Dec 03, 2014
Krista the Krazy Kataloguer
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Dec 13, 2016
Lia
marked it as unread-secondhand-books
Oct 12, 2017
Rod
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Dec 22, 2017
Lainie
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Jul 24, 2022
Tess
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Aug 23, 2023
Dot
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