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La Battaglia Di Teutoburgo: Romanzo (2009)

by Harry Turtledove(Favorite Author)

3.19 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

883471525X (ISBN13: 9788834715253)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Fanucci

review 1: This book was the worst Harry Turtledove I have read so far - which really isn't saying that much. I don't know how this book got to be published. My three-year old brother could have written a better novel. Turtledove's writing is so flawed. He repeats himself ENDLESSLY, and spends 30 pages at a time drilling one single, easy, simple concept into the readers' heads. He wastes a bunch of time and page space by writing about what could have happened - every time a character makes some choice, Turtledove helpfully informs the reader in great detail about what could have happened had the character not made that choice. These may seem like minor, nit-picking points, but Turtledove makes the same mistakes so many times that it seems like the book is just one big flaw - which it... more is. Turtledove managed to fill up 310 pages with what could have easily been written in about 100. I'm not saying that this should have been a novella or short story instead, but Turtledove could have written about more than he did. He basically wrote about two things: the Germans plotting revenge, and the Romans complaining about being in Germany. (The book is set at the time of the Battle of Teutoberg Forest in 9 AD, in which the Germans drove the Romans out of their lands). Oh yeah, and Turtledove also sticks a battle in at the end, almost as an afterthought. Instead of taking so much time to write about so little, Turtledove could have concentrated on other things, such as the main character's wife, for instance. All she gets is a passing mention. Or he could have spent longer on the actual battle, which is the reason I picked this book up in the first place. Terrible novel.
review 2: Coming from a person who has read most of what Turtledove has written, this says a lot. It is not a bad book, but it pales in comparison to most of what he has written in the past, which is a considerable body of work. I don't know how many times I read the title phrase in the novel, but more than once was too many. A bit contrived, this plot was no where near as good as he can deliver. Not bad, but far from his best. less

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