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Quo Vadis?
by Henryk Sienkiewicz
I want to put this out there before reviewing - I don't think I'm the target audience for this book. Not likely something I would have picked up on my own but it was gifted to me by my mother in law who is a very lovely Polish woman. She's very proud of her country, and we share a common love of historical fiction, and with this being written by such a famous author from her country and it was highly acclaimed, she was very excited for me to read it. With all of that being said... This was a struggle to get through.
Part of the struggle was from I'm assuming the translation from Polish to English and then the use of the old English, it sometimes was not always easy and it took a few times rereading sections to grasp it.
The book itself at first was hard to stomach, gave me very.... Icky feelings. I didn't like the main guy. Actually, the whole book I'm never sympathetic towards him, just why I think he's the worst changes throughout the book.
This is a very pro Christianity book, after you get through the first 300 pages, it's the main plot line. Which, in and of itself is fine, but the main guy character... I have a hard time understanding how to be sympathetic towards him, it's very obvious he isn't true to his conversion, but time period this is and events is covering and how it's described makes it apparent that this is pro Christianity.
The most interesting part of the book is honestly the last 200 pages, where it mostly diverges from following the main characters. They are still there, still some plot for them, but there's more historical information through it and that's why I found it interesting.
Overall, not my cup of tea and for those of you who aren't super religious but like the historical fiction, this might be a skip for you. I wish I was fluent in Polish so I could read it and maybe it'd be better, I'm not sure if maybe things were lost in translation since it's impossible for a one to one translation from any language.
Part of the struggle was from I'm assuming the translation from Polish to English and then the use of the old English, it sometimes was not always easy and it took a few times rereading sections to grasp it.
The book itself at first was hard to stomach, gave me very.... Icky feelings. I didn't like the main guy. Actually, the whole book I'm never sympathetic towards him, just why I think he's the worst changes throughout the book.
This is a very pro Christianity book, after you get through the first 300 pages, it's the main plot line. Which, in and of itself is fine, but the main guy character... I have a hard time understanding how to be sympathetic towards him, it's very obvious he isn't true to his conversion, but time period this is and events is covering and how it's described makes it apparent that this is pro Christianity.
The most interesting part of the book is honestly the last 200 pages, where it mostly diverges from following the main characters. They are still there, still some plot for them, but there's more historical information through it and that's why I found it interesting.
Overall, not my cup of tea and for those of you who aren't super religious but like the historical fiction, this might be a skip for you. I wish I was fluent in Polish so I could read it and maybe it'd be better, I'm not sure if maybe things were lost in translation since it's impossible for a one to one translation from any language.