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Erika (17789 KP) rated A Long Long Way in Books

Mar 22, 2020  
A Long Long Way
A Long Long Way
Sebastian Barry | 2005 | Fiction & Poetry, History & Politics
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6.0 (1 Ratings)
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I got this nookbook on sale for $1.99. I'm glad I only spent that. I enjoy Great War fiction, and the added dynamic of the Easter Uprising of 1916 made me even more interested in it.
This book started out so slowly, and some of the descriptions felt completely unnecessary. I don't want to read about every time someone let their bowels go when they were scared literally and figuratively sh--less.
The one positive is that I felt like the dynamic of the Irish soldiers coming back to an Ireland they didn't recognize, and that they were considered traitors in some ways because they were fighting with the English.
Never expect a happy ending to a book (or any media) about soldiers in the Great War.
  
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