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3.94 AVERAGE
3.94 AVERAGE
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
informative
reflective
medium-paced
I wonder what difference this book might have had if it were required reading at West Point when I was there 20 years ago. I’m a angry that I didn’t have this novel’s message before deploying.
Following his public criticism of the way in which the First World War was being fought, Siegfried Sassoon, was sent to Craiglockhart hospital where he was treated by the Neurologist and Ethnographer W H R Rivers.
Taking this as the heart of her story, Barker tells of the treatment of those men suffering shell shock and how they tried to rebuild their lives.
Deeply affecting, beautifully written and brutal in its reality and description of the causes of Shell Shock. My only problem with the book though is the character of Billy Prior. He just never felt convincing and his story felt unreal based as it was in the reality of Craiglockhart.
Taking this as the heart of her story, Barker tells of the treatment of those men suffering shell shock and how they tried to rebuild their lives.
Deeply affecting, beautifully written and brutal in its reality and description of the causes of Shell Shock. My only problem with the book though is the character of Billy Prior. He just never felt convincing and his story felt unreal based as it was in the reality of Craiglockhart.
dark
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
emotional
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
could not get into this book at all, The hospital treatment bits were interesting but overall I just found the book to be really slow and difficult to get into. This is not my kind of thing noramlly but the premis of this one sounded interesting so I was disapointed not to like it.
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
challenging
emotional
sad
tense
slow-paced