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Pros
The book is about pows in a japanese camp building the burma railroad and starving to death. The novel has a uniquely australian, and what i would think tasmanian voice.
The characters are fully fleshed out by the author. Writing style is a little dense, but the period and the story and the characters are all vivid and heart-wrenching. This is a novel that has narrative strength and drive.
Flanagan's novel puts the reader in the midst of the work on the death railway with all its barbarity. Dorrigo marries ella in a relationship which lacks fire and *. In addition to the story of dorriga, ella, and ada, much of the latter part of the bo... Read More
Cons
The story he has chosen to tell is relentlessly bleak.
A deckle edge is an unfinished edge to the pages. It is almost impossible to turn the pages using the long edge of the page as they are clumped together.
The story is profoundly nihilistic. Throughout the book we are treated, ad nauseam to the inner reflections of dorrigo evans. He emerges as an elusive cipher, a hole in the panoramic canvas.
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Quality
I am not familiar with the film but want to see it
Flanagan brought me to my mental knees with the humanity and love he had for the men in the story
It did not fit with the new age of conformity that was the coming of all things
Feeling tormented with the affair evans had given ada his heart when he went off to war
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A testament of man’s inhumanity to man
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Nor can one bear the love story head on the strength of the passion overwhelms and the pain is too great
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I cant read it quickly i need time to recover after each segment
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A better book for someone who has experienced loss and wishes to put in into a bigger context
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His private self would become increasingly incomprehensible and distasteful
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It did not fit with the new age of conformity that was the coming of all things
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Replaced by a bland new world where the viewing of food preparation would be felt to be more moving than the reading of poetry
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Compare the japanese spirit and allegiance through major nakamura’s sentiments on the nobility of poetry with the sentiments of evansnakamura ‘loved poetry above all and the emperor was a poem of one word–perhaps he thought the greatest poem–a poem that encompassed the universe and transcended all morality and all suffering
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