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katiescho741 's review for:
Birdsong
by Sebastian Faulks
I first read this book when I was about 16/17 and the only thing I remembered about it were the erotic sex scenes in the first section of the novel!
Now I've re-read it, the scenes in the trenches stick with me. It's the idea that, unless you've lived through it, you've got no idea. The attitudes of the families back home are shocking to our modern perspective...they dismissed the horrors their sons told stories of by saying "we're all doing our bit".
We read of men fighting on the front and longing for home, while wondering how they'll ever live a normal life. I got so involved with the characters that I hated stopping reading because I didn't want to abandon them where they were!
It's heartbreaking watching men live and die in the trenches and not knowing which is worse.
The end of the book is touching and unexpected without being sappy.
Read this book to learn about the lost generation, and to learn about a war that's recently gone out of living memory.
Now I've re-read it, the scenes in the trenches stick with me. It's the idea that, unless you've lived through it, you've got no idea. The attitudes of the families back home are shocking to our modern perspective...they dismissed the horrors their sons told stories of by saying "we're all doing our bit".
We read of men fighting on the front and longing for home, while wondering how they'll ever live a normal life. I got so involved with the characters that I hated stopping reading because I didn't want to abandon them where they were!
It's heartbreaking watching men live and die in the trenches and not knowing which is worse.
The end of the book is touching and unexpected without being sappy.
Read this book to learn about the lost generation, and to learn about a war that's recently gone out of living memory.