What is the last book you read, and your rating?
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Re: What is the last book you read, and your rating?
2/4 stars because it meandered all over the place but had some solid ideas and observations.
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Fran wrote: ↑17 Nov 2015, 06:42 The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
A fantasy novel set in Post Roman England, where Saxon and Britain are in conflict, has been likened to Tolkien and indeed it does feature an element of a mysterious "quest" and a medieval knight. A very enjoyable and entertaining read with gripping characters.
A really enjoyable read 3/4*
This book is amazing. I was not prepared for this story. The idea of memory and whether it is better to remember the truth or not. Beautiful.
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Dr W H R Rivers treats soldiers returning from the front in France who have 'shell shock', the term once used for what is now more commonly referred to as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). One of Rivers' patients is Siegfried Sassoon, the well-known 'war poet', whose pacifism and public objections to the war are as noteworthy as his poetry.
Sassoon, and Rivers, also formed close relationships with another well-known poet, Wilfred Owen and the author Robert Graves in the hospital at Craiglockart where the mentally fractured were being treated. The interplay between these characters highlights the well-meaning intentions but apparent uncertainty of Rivers, who is trying his best to deal with a complex medical problem about which little was actually known in 1917.
It provides a contrast between the relatively gentle psychoanalytic methods of Rivers and the brutal, bordering on sadistic, methods of Dr Lewis Yealland, who persisted in using electric shock therapy to 'cure' patients.
We are also able to contrast the attitudes of individuals about returning to front line action once they have been deemed medically sound to do so. Some are keen to return, and others most decidedly anted nothing further to do with the war.
This is a really well-written and insightful novel about an aspect of war that is often overlooked. There are only a few descriptions of the actual conditions in the trenches, most them appalling and sickening, but this novel deals sensitively and insightfully with the often unspoken issue of the mental havoc that war creates in addition to death and physical ruin.
A solid 4 stars out of 5.
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
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