Books by Jonathan Littell
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review 1: Littell had the chance to have written something extraordinary...if onlyThe goodIt's not very often that we get to see the german side of WWII, so i really enjoyed that to begin with. The Nazi fall is particularly interesting, and the best part of the book is without a doubt the ...
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review 1: The beginning was fascinating. The idea of what goes on in the mind of a Nazi SS officer involved in terrible atrocities.The man, a sophisticated educated intellectual loses the idea of right and wrong completely. In the middle of the book it all became a bit too much for me. Not...
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review 1: One might say that to write a hardcore Dostoevsky-like mammoth novel today must be just a waste of time. Not only everything has been already written but also because today we are receiving information via another sources...internet, movies etc. Everything is getting just too fas...
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review 1: Na het lezen van deze klepper blijf ik wat vertwijfeld achter. In zijn eerste 200 bladzijden doet de auteur weinig moeite om je op sleeptouw te nemen. Maar met de toenemende actie die in het verhaal binnenglipt, stijgt ook het leesplezier. Al stoot je om de paar tientallen pag...
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review 1: I was thoroughly transfixed by this book. It occupied my thoughts and even my dreams for the entire week it took me to read it. At one point my mother (I was visiting her) complained, “You’re not being very sociable. You’re totally engrossed in that book!” She didn’t understand, ...