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radikaliseradgroda's review against another edition
3.0
Fun with unreliable narrators for the whole family! (:
May contain misogyny
May contain misogyny
kazamaria's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
gingerliss's review against another edition
4.0
A very strange novel due to the unreliable narrator, sometimes difficult to follow due to said narrator, but certainly intriguing for, again, the same reason. Another one to reread at my own time and pace.
jetia13's review against another edition
3.0
The first book I've checked out from the LA library. :)
rietbelmans's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
sarahmacp's review against another edition
challenging
dark
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
eurekaitsmika's review against another edition
5.0
An incredible work of Modernist literature that completely defies normal conventions of narrative order, plot, and characterization. About halfway through the novel, there's a passage that goes like this:
I have given you absolutely the whole of my recollection of that evening, as it is the whole of my recollection of the succeeding three or four days. I was in a state just simply cataleptic. They put me to bed and I stayed there; they brought me my clothes and I dressed; they led me to an open grave and I stood beside it. If they had taken me to the edge of a river, or if they had flung me beneath a railway train, I should have been drowned or mangled in the same spirit I was the walking dead.
Well, those are my impressions.
What had actually happened had been this. I pieced it together afterwards.
And so it goes: Dowell claims to have recalled something in its entirety, only to loop back into an admittance of literary impressionism and to poke holes in his previous statement with someone else's narrative which he seems to have just remembered. It's an entirely disconcerting reading experience and I absolutely loved it.
I have given you absolutely the whole of my recollection of that evening, as it is the whole of my recollection of the succeeding three or four days. I was in a state just simply cataleptic. They put me to bed and I stayed there; they brought me my clothes and I dressed; they led me to an open grave and I stood beside it. If they had taken me to the edge of a river, or if they had flung me beneath a railway train, I should have been drowned or mangled in the same spirit I was the walking dead.
Well, those are my impressions.
What had actually happened had been this. I pieced it together afterwards.
And so it goes: Dowell claims to have recalled something in its entirety, only to loop back into an admittance of literary impressionism and to poke holes in his previous statement with someone else's narrative which he seems to have just remembered. It's an entirely disconcerting reading experience and I absolutely loved it.
adambwriter's review against another edition
4.0
https://roofbeamreader.com/2012/11/01/review-the-good-soldier-by-ford-madox-ford/
hananas's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
3.25