Reinhard Heydrich..."the most dangerous man in the Third Reich, the Hangman of Prague, the Butcher, the Blond Beast, the Goat"....has an unenviable reputation of being one of the most vicious and ruthless Nazi thugs during the second world war. As well as being a master swordsman, an accomplished vi...
Finding fame with his unintentionally written first novel, Paul escapes his life as an architect in San Fransisco, moving to Paris where he spends the next seven years writing in solitude. Worried about their friend and feeling that fate needs a little help, his best friends sign up Paul for an onli...
I honestly don't feel like reliving what I already wrote in my update besides the fact that I don't know if I would have liked this more in the original French or what. The dialogue seemed off to me and the plots (such as they were) did not seem realistic at all. The book focuses on two characters...
Literary critics will tell you that even nonfiction can be considered a kind of fiction. The author chooses what the share and what to hide. They create a story arc to engage their readers. Laurent Binet’s HHhH isn’t unusual, considered in that light. Still, any reader of historical nonfiction would...
I first heard about this novel through Hear...Read This! as one of their first selections and because the book sounded interesting. I had never heard about Reinhard Heydrich (may have heard his name his name in course of my history courses in university, but it never probably clicked in my head) an...
About two-thirds of the way through the book, the author ([a:Laurent Binet|3465954|Laurent Binet|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1342709342p2/3465954.jpg]) reflects:“To begin with, this seemed a simple-enough story to tell. Two men have to kill a third man. They succeed, or not, and th...
Historical fiction attracts despite the fact that readers usually know the outcome because it speaks to reasons why and what. At its best, the genre makes people re-evaluate or think deeply about the historical record. At its worse, it causes the reader to throw the book across the room in disgust...
Binet has a good story to tell, but he gets in his own way. He constantly interrupts the story of the assassination to wax philosophical about the limits of fiction and historical knowledge. He wants to tell the comprehensive truth about every last detail. And then he fills you in on every last det...
HHhH was terrific. It’s hard to recommend to just anyone because it’s best to be a little familiar with the figure of Reinhard Heydrich and his assassination to appreciate the book. But even Wikipedia could equip a reader sufficiently. As meta-fiction the author is very in the book, which pretty muc...
This novel is really more like a diary about the author's difficulty in writing fiction, and was really not what I expected it to be. I wanted to see and hear the story about the attack on Heydrich, not just hear the author complaining about how hard it is to do just that.
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