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MASH: A Novel about Three Army Doctors
by Richard Hooker
I just found it kinda boring. The writing is painfully simplistic. There is no challenge to this material. I didn't find their antics all that humorous and their sexual escapades were...were their sexual escapades?
The story is told almost entirely with sparse dialogue and plot descriptions. They did this, then they did this, then this character said this to that character, then he's a plot description of this event. There is no nuance. No explanation. None of these characters express any feelings about the ravages of war going on around them. Not once are we let into their heads. The "action" is described with the passionless detail of a routine tonsillectomy in a Stateside hospital.
I was able to get through this book in a day. That's not a good thing. There was nothing to pour over, to mull over, to think about.
I gave it two stars because a one-star is reviewed for books which are either terrible or offensive. This was just meh.
The story is told almost entirely with sparse dialogue and plot descriptions. They did this, then they did this, then this character said this to that character, then he's a plot description of this event. There is no nuance. No explanation. None of these characters express any feelings about the ravages of war going on around them. Not once are we let into their heads. The "action" is described with the passionless detail of a routine tonsillectomy in a Stateside hospital.
I was able to get through this book in a day. That's not a good thing. There was nothing to pour over, to mull over, to think about.
I gave it two stars because a one-star is reviewed for books which are either terrible or offensive. This was just meh.