i honestly can't believe most of the reviews on here and how popular this book is. it started off with disgusting nazi apologetic vibes, like why should i feel bad for the nazi people of dresden for dying awful deaths when their concentration camps were so much worse? is that what we're doing now, feeling sorry for fucking nazis? anyway, i stopped at 38% because i felt this really wasn't going anywhere useful, and i have hundreds of better books to read. B Y E. i honestly can't believe this is a classic. it definitely shouldn't be a classic - the characters are stupidly flat, the settings are barely described, and the language is atrocious. this is not how you write a book!!