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4.1 AVERAGE
4.1 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
inspiring
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
If you like historical fiction at all, or want to figure out if you like historical fiction, then read this book. The characters are excellent, but even more I appreciated the feel you get for the men and the times on each side of the conflict. In my head Gettysburg was an inexplicable twist of history where an otherwise brilliant general got sick and went a little crazy. But Shaara made the story understandable, meaningful, and in many ways tragic, with only a normal amount of chance and unpredictability.
Beyond that, what will stick with me most is the pictures of leadership (or lack of it) embodied by the officers portrayed. At every moment it mattered who was in the discussion, and what they did or did not choose to say.
Overall, excellent.
Beyond that, what will stick with me most is the pictures of leadership (or lack of it) embodied by the officers portrayed. At every moment it mattered who was in the discussion, and what they did or did not choose to say.
Overall, excellent.
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
informative
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Very good, well written, moving. Brings the battle to life, gives you an emotional stake in it. Examines the personal reasons folks fought on one side or the other. Focuses on the decision-making driving the battle, less on the experience of battle itself—Red Badge of Courage makes a good companion book, gives the view from the ground.
This book really wasn't my type of book, but it wasn't all that bad. I started connecting with the characters near the end, and the story was compelling enough. I think I would have enjoyed it more had I not read it purely for school, but it was just kind of ruined for me.
adventurous
emotional
informative
sad
tense
medium-paced
Original review found http://beawesomebeabooknut.blogspot.com/
EXCELLENT! this book was EXCELLENT!
First off if you haven't been to Gettysburg, you need to find time to GO! Pennsylvania is an AWESOME place to visit, you have Pittsburg, Philadelphia, the Amish, and other awesome things and places in Pennsylvania, it's GORGEOUS! But there is something very sacred about Gettysburg. I've been there twice and it still touches me. This ONE battle that changed the course of history.
This books makes the characters REAL and that they are GOOD men on BOTH sides of the battle lines. It was interesting to read how human they all were, their mistakes and characteristics that made them who they were! The way war was back then was more brutal in the sense that you could die a slow painful death but it seemed also so...nice? I know right? how it war nice? well just that in the aspect of the Civil war they had family and friends fighting on the other side and would raise white flags to chat with someone. The art of war was open and honest, it seemed like.
I enjoyed it because it reminded me that they weren't just fighting for freedom of the slaves but FREEDOM itself. The south was fighting to keep their freedom to do what they wanted and the north was fighting for a different type of freedom but in the end that is what this war was about. FREEDOM to do something. But it would've had divided us and this war brought us together. It would take MANY years later to get what it was about.
It was interesting at the end of the book to read about what happened afterwards with the commanders and how this ONE battle haunted many of them.
HIGHLY recommend.
Language: moderate (PG)
Sexual Content: none
Violence: moderate (nothing gory)
Drugs/Alcohol: none
EXCELLENT! this book was EXCELLENT!
First off if you haven't been to Gettysburg, you need to find time to GO! Pennsylvania is an AWESOME place to visit, you have Pittsburg, Philadelphia, the Amish, and other awesome things and places in Pennsylvania, it's GORGEOUS! But there is something very sacred about Gettysburg. I've been there twice and it still touches me. This ONE battle that changed the course of history.
This books makes the characters REAL and that they are GOOD men on BOTH sides of the battle lines. It was interesting to read how human they all were, their mistakes and characteristics that made them who they were! The way war was back then was more brutal in the sense that you could die a slow painful death but it seemed also so...nice? I know right? how it war nice? well just that in the aspect of the Civil war they had family and friends fighting on the other side and would raise white flags to chat with someone. The art of war was open and honest, it seemed like.
I enjoyed it because it reminded me that they weren't just fighting for freedom of the slaves but FREEDOM itself. The south was fighting to keep their freedom to do what they wanted and the north was fighting for a different type of freedom but in the end that is what this war was about. FREEDOM to do something. But it would've had divided us and this war brought us together. It would take MANY years later to get what it was about.
It was interesting at the end of the book to read about what happened afterwards with the commanders and how this ONE battle haunted many of them.
HIGHLY recommend.
Language: moderate (PG)
Sexual Content: none
Violence: moderate (nothing gory)
Drugs/Alcohol: none
Awwww that was really depressing!!! I think it's actually worse when you know that this was actually REAL STUFF happening. There were real men fighting this battle. This was also better than October Sky (another book we read for school) in the way that it didn't seem at all fake. In a book, even one with a depressing ending, there's usually so closure in the sense that you're like, "It's gonna be alright," but this one really doesn't, because obviously, for the Confederates, there's no happy ending. (For those of you who think it's a spoiler, it's not. Pick up a history textbook if you didn't know that the Union won at Gettysburg... btw, Jenn, I still need those notes for the Civil War test...)