I got this book for my birthday in 2013 or 2014, I don't remember. I had read about it on the internet and it seems a really great book. But then I was intimated by it, it's big and not the kind of book I'm used to reading. I finally decided to give it a try. It took me more than one month to read i...
I want to start this review by saying that everything I have written in it is my opinion, and is not to be taken as an absolute truth. Nor do I want to write a review that is tricksy, clever and fully of pithy put downs, either aimed at the writer or at those whose assessment of the book does not ac...
I don’t have words for this book. Seriously, the English language does not have words to describe how I felt while I was reading The Narrow Road to the Deep North. It has taken me days to write this review because I just don’t know what to say. I guess the rambling that follows is the book reviewer’...
I am writing a response to this novel - which I do for most books that I read - but I am not entirely sure that it is really a review. There are huge themes in the book that I have simply ignored here. It can't be helped though. What I write is what I feel. I cannot help being instantly suspicious...
So many stories are told about the events of WWII, but for some reason they tend to focus on what was happening in Europe and ignore the events happening across the globe. The cruelty with which the Japanese are known to have treated the nations they conquered and POWs cannot be equaled. Though they...
I was less than impressed by the most recent winner of the Man Booker Prize. It felt more like three books merged into one, with the Australian surgeon, Dorrigo Evans as the thread that linked them together.The first part was a love story, rather along the lines of Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks. The ...
bookshelves: winter-20142015, australia, tasmania, wwii, booker-winner, burma, lifestyles-deathstyles, prisoner, e-book, casual-violence, torture, published-2013, recreational-homicide Read from February 01 to December 18, 2014 Australian POWsDescription: A novel of the cruelty of war, and ten...
This harrowing story is read beautifully by David Atlas; his tone is a bit flat as he reads in a plaintive voice, a bit dreamily, which is in stark contrast to the story he tells as he speaks of the violent nightmare existence the POW’s of WWII were forced to endure. This is the story of Dorrigo Eva...
The Narrow Road to the Deep North starts slow. It’s the sort of book some readers will cast aside after the first fifty pages. That’s understandable. Even after the pace picks up, The Narrow Road... isn’t what I’d call an enjoyable read. It’s brutal and depressing. Aside from the slim hope that one ...
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