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whatcha_listening_to's review against another edition
4.0
This was an interesting story. Set in the period of WWI, it is some insight into how a wounded soldier is treated. Not wounded of body but of mind.
I quiet enjoyed the way this book was told. It was from the perspective of an outsider but not it was interesting for sure.
Classics are not really my thing but I am glad I picked this book.
The narration was great it kept me engaged and wanting to know more.
I quiet enjoyed the way this book was told. It was from the perspective of an outsider but not it was interesting for sure.
Classics are not really my thing but I am glad I picked this book.
The narration was great it kept me engaged and wanting to know more.
danfilipe's review against another edition
2.0
icl i didn’t even quite finish this, it’s just so boring, i barely care about the characters and can’t even focus on what’s happening.
bethwidcapo's review against another edition
4.0
Interesting!! and quick! my first experience with Rebecca West.
swashb's review against another edition
2.0
An interesting story but I did not enjoy the writing style. It was far to verbose for my taste.
lilawood's review against another edition
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
dwgradio's review against another edition
5.0
"...out of the splendid house which was not so much a house as a vast piece of space partitioned off from the universe and decorated partly for beauty and partly to make our privacy more insolent, out of the garden where the flowers took thought as to how they should grow and the wood made as formal as a pillared aisle by forestry, may be judged from my anguish in being left there alone."
Even without context this sentence is delectable, and West in her first novel treats us to 90 pages of delectable prose. No detail is too insignificant to be treated with careful, deliberate beauty.
Published at the close of WWI and one of the first works to examine shell-shock (what we would contemporaneously call PTSD), this short book is still powerful a century later, and a much easier read than Black Lamb and Grey Falcon.
Even without context this sentence is delectable, and West in her first novel treats us to 90 pages of delectable prose. No detail is too insignificant to be treated with careful, deliberate beauty.
Published at the close of WWI and one of the first works to examine shell-shock (what we would contemporaneously call PTSD), this short book is still powerful a century later, and a much easier read than Black Lamb and Grey Falcon.
noeliadf's review against another edition
5.0
Brillantes descripciones de los personajes, siempre desde el punto de vista de uno de ellos, del ambiente y de los sentimientos que producen en la narradora los acontecimientos. Quizá la pregunta que queda en el aire y que lo hace verdaderamente especial es si la verdad, que no sale a relucir bien sea por apariencias o por las costumbres de la época, duerme siempre oculta en el fondo de nuestro corazón y los estados transitorios de locura, demencia o amnesia son más reales que la propia realidad.
ninaru's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25