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sjbozich's review against another edition
2.0
Really, not much here. Literacy and peasant revolt - but does not do much to tie the two together. Yeah, yeah, there have been peasant revolts throughout Europe throughout time.
Fluff the slight book out (79 pp of text - including chapter title pages and blank pages!) with 17 pp of "The Order of the Day". Not sure what I paid for this, but if it was more than $5, it was not worth price.....
But I will be reading whatever he publishes next.
Fluff the slight book out (79 pp of text - including chapter title pages and blank pages!) with 17 pp of "The Order of the Day". Not sure what I paid for this, but if it was more than $5, it was not worth price.....
But I will be reading whatever he publishes next.
bionicsarah's review against another edition
3.0
A historical gallop
I just don’t get it I’m afraid it is surely a short story not a full novel id read it in 30 minutes .it is a gallop through the history of pease to revolts amusing and face paced but I don’t understand how it ended up being short listed for the international Booker prize 2021 .
I just don’t get it I’m afraid it is surely a short story not a full novel id read it in 30 minutes .it is a gallop through the history of pease to revolts amusing and face paced but I don’t understand how it ended up being short listed for the international Booker prize 2021 .
sense_of_history's review against another edition
Evocation of peasant revolts in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, usually associated with religious heresies. Certainly not an academic study. In my opinion the author mainly wanted to highlight the relevance of social protest. It's too short to give a decent rating.
marc129's review against another edition
2.0
This story (for the English translation see [b:The War of the Poor|54765614|The War of the Poor|Éric Vuillard|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1596192583l/54765614._SY75_.jpg|67580285]) seems like a light snack of barely 60 pages, but looks can be deceiving. To begin with, Vuillard has turned it into a well thought-out historical treatise on one of the most severe peasant revolts in what now is Germany, in the early 16th century. The protagonist is Thomas Müntzer (1489-1525), who evolved from Protestant theologian to virulent rebel against the authority of the church and the nobility. Vuillard writes in a very elegant style (I read the French original), but the short, condensed sentences and the theological reasoning makes reading this novelette a bit tougher than you might expect. It's not obvious what you can get out of this, and that's a good sign, because I don't like ostentatious moralistic messages. But the link with today's 'gilets jaunes' movement is inescapable. And then it seems to me that the author wants to warn us against underestimating apparently irrational popular protests, and at the same time indicate that brute power by authorities always wins. This is a short and powerful book, but I wouldn't call it a full-blown story. So, yes, I have rather mixed feelings about this one.
blueberry31's review against another edition
3.0
Grand talent d'écriture, un livre qui se dévore. Je ne met pas plus d'étoiles car le sujet ne m'a pas intéressée plus que ça. Ceci dit, l'auteur a un don quand il s'agit de raconter l'Histoire et le style est incroyable.
lilianw's review against another edition
challenging
dark
informative
reflective
sad
tense
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
3.75
jandileida's review against another edition
3.0
Not bad, kind of powerful prose but really way too short.