Reviews

Not about Heroes by Stephen MacDonald

jerrica's review against another edition

3.0

Tasty homoerotic fan-fiction. OR IS IT??? Fiction, that is.

Dulce et decorum est, indeed, Mr. MacDonald.

enoughgaiety's review against another edition

2.0

This was one of those books I wanted to write. And so I resent it not only for having already been written, but for not even being written particularly well. It's a great story, of course, but history gave us the story; MacDonald doesn't add much. It's a very, very textual book--textual in the sense of drawing heavily on Sassoon's and Owen's writing, but also textual in the sense of not subtextual. There's very little authorial interpretation going on here, which makes it a pretty flat retelling.