The question I asked myself after (and while) reading this book was: why am I not reading more historical fiction? I love history. I studied history. I love fiction. Dudes!This blurb really only gives a general outline of the story; the entire thing is so much more enjoyable! Dismas, a previous merc...
The question I asked myself after (and while) reading this book was: why am I not reading more historical fiction? I love history. I studied history. I love fiction. Dudes!This blurb really only gives a general outline of the story; the entire thing is so much more enjoyable! Dismas, a previous merc...
I was hugely surprised to learn that Christopher Buckley had written a work of historical fiction. His oeuvre to date has been extremely current political satire. I admit that I would have read The Relic Master anyway—I’m a big fan of Buckley—I asked to review this book because I was terribly curiou...
I'll be damned. All flavours in one zanny, speedy book. I would start to laugh, and then BOOM! horror, BOOM! ridiculous, BOOM! tragedy BOOM! hilarious BOOM! touching BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! [spoiler] Like McWatt killing a comrade by mistake and committing suicide, and seguing with Daneeka's bure...
I didn't enjoy reading this - which I expected as it is a book about the war. But I was also bored and irritated. Which I didn't expect. Too many characters, too many small stories and anecdotes within the plot. Not enough to hold my interest. And I still compare every book about the war to ...
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller is another one of those books I've been meaning to read for the longest time, but never got around to it. Well, I finally did and I'm glad. It's delightfully absurd, and even though I was expecting it to be funny, the humor surpassed my expectations. A great tale if you lov...
If only the real world--especially the world of politics--could be as Christopher Buckley portrays it in his novels. It would be just as precipitous, just as scary, just as ridiculous as it already is...but it would also be screamingly funny. In previous novels he's made us laugh at the excesses of ...
A high school re-read. An absolutely amazing book - I had remembered it as shorter, less complex, funnier. I had forgotten all about the style - those many, many, many adjectives! I remembered the absurdity - but had forgotten the surrealism and the grotesque. I had forgotten that it was written i...
”You mean there’s a catch?”“Sure there’s a catch, “ Doc Daneeka replied. “Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn’t really crazy.”There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one’s own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate w...
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