All the King's Men
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781615582921 (1615582924)
Publish date: September 28th 1996
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages no: 672
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Book Club,
American,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Politics,
Southern
Warren is clearly out to impress with this novel, and mostly he does so, unfortunately at the cost of that evasive final stretch of insightfulness and humanity that separates the very good from the great: the feather in the cap of any novel that aims to be especially rewarding for dealing with the v...
4.01236070
My husband read this years before me and thought the author, Robert Penn Warren was too descriptive. I agree that some spots were descriptive but there was beauty in the words that made the book likable. I really felt for the main character Jack Burden, especially the flashback of his first love. ...
My husband read this years before me and thought the author, Robert Penn Warren was too descriptive. I agree that some spots were descriptive but there was beauty in the words that made the book likable. I really felt for the main character Jack Burden, especially the flashback of his first love. ...
I actually liked this book a lot more than I expected. The opening chapter kind of put me off, but I pushed through, and I'm glad I did. The opening is a sort of Kerouac-ish, romanticized, stream-of-consciousness-ish, description of a road trip.But once I was past that, the story really picked up. I...
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