A review by mrs_merdle
The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston by Siegfried Sassoon

2.0

I finally finally plowed my way through this book. I have a feeling a lot of people consider this a classic, and I am all about classics, but MAN! I thought it was one of the more boring books I've ever read. I think the main problems for me were these: 1) Siegfried Sassoon seems to have had no interest in women at all (yes, I know he was gay, but he seems to have had no contact with anything female except his aunt, his aunt's servant, and maybe a horse or dog here and there). 2)The first two-thirds of the book were mainly about fox hunting. Really almost every page was about fox hunting. In GREAT DETAIL. 3) What wasn't about fox hunting was about cricket or (in the later sections of the book)golf. Unfortunately I think I was so exhausted and beaten down by the aforementioned first two-thirds of the book, that I wasn't able to fully appreciate the last section, which was about the Great War and his part in it, including his eventual anti-war stance and some time in a hospital with a psychologist because of it. Maybe I should have just read that part. Oh well.