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3.94 AVERAGE
3.94 AVERAGE
this was an interesting read re psychology in the 1910s but i'm not really sure what it accomplished. the copy i bought has the entire trilogy in one book so will probably read the rest anyway !
I like reading books about war. World Wars one and two to be more specific, but really, if it's got something to do with war, then I'll be interested. Regeneration was recommended to me by my form tutor during a conversation about the books that we loved and loathed. I looked the book up on the internet, and have wanted to read it ever since.
I liked how the book focused on a different character at certain points, it allowed me to create a wonderful connection with the characters, particularly Prior, who I found to be an extremely interesting character. None of the characters were one-dimensional and they all had their flaws, which I think aided my connection with the characters.
The end, although not a cliffhanger, was set up perfectly for the next book in the trilogy, The Eye In The Road.
I liked how the book focused on a different character at certain points, it allowed me to create a wonderful connection with the characters, particularly Prior, who I found to be an extremely interesting character. None of the characters were one-dimensional and they all had their flaws, which I think aided my connection with the characters.
The end, although not a cliffhanger, was set up perfectly for the next book in the trilogy, The Eye In The Road.
Semi-true/semi-fictional account of Sigfried Sassoon and his doctor in WWI, there are two more books in the series but, as much as I loved this one, I couldn't read them one after the other. Great book, fascinating.
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
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
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A beautiful novel exploring the relationships between a doctor and his patients, and in the process undertaking a greater examination of some poisons found in the stifling architectures of traditional masculinity.
I took my time reading this but I'm afraid I have not mentally absorbed all that the author wanted to convey. I could not give better affirmation apart from the words 1%-shell-shocking, ultimate-page-turner, and best-war-prose-I-ever-read.
I hope I could find the second and third books in the antiquarians I frequent. Oh but if not, I will look for them ebooks. There's so much to know about what could possibly happen next. Ahhh!
I hope I could find the second and third books in the antiquarians I frequent. Oh but if not, I will look for them ebooks. There's so much to know about what could possibly happen next. Ahhh!
As wonderful as I was told it would be. Really. It's wonderful. Best WW1 novel I've read to-date. Also a very close to the line, never becoming voyeurism RPF. It's real people, living in what is for us remote history, a time in history which was difficult, a daily nightmare for the men and women on the front line and in the medical evac tents. This is shown to us with an economy of words but important words and an engaging and pulling you into the narrative style that made me, slow down my reading, enjoy the pace the author set and enjoy and feel the pain, the despair of these young in age but not in mind and body, men who went through hell, time and time again. Either physically in France or every night in their sleep. Regeneration is an important work of literature on an important moment in time. For me anyway.
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
medium-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
adventurous
challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
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
Though this book is about WW I England, it is just as relevant today. A young upper class man who served heroically in France suffers from exhaustion and PTSD (though of course they didn't call it then.) He writes a public letter to protest the government's continuation in the war and his friend helps him "escape" prison my going to a sanitarium to help heal his mind. We forget that having any mental health issues as a result of a war experience was considered weakness and abnormal at the turn of the century. (I find it mind boggling that anyone seeing friends/people die horrifically wouldn't have trauma!) The book is based on the real lives of poet Siegfried Sassoon, his friend writer and poet Robert Graves and psychiatrist Dr. William Rivers. The gradual way we are told of Dr. Rivers patients experiences sits in the soul and will not leave. Excellent read!