A review by bookhawk
Sophie's Choice by William Styron

3.0

Sophie's Choice is a book that will be rated highly by those who love expansive prose filled with challenging vocabulary. The core plot related to Auschwitz and the awful treatment of Jews and any other non-aryan people is gruesome but told in an interesting way. This book will be rated poorly by readers who want a writer to get to the plot without meandering through superfluous nonlinear detours. I fell in the middle but he didn't lose me despite taking the scenic route. The book could have been told in 300 pages and gotten nearly all of the messages across.