I picked this one up because of the movie, which we haven't seen. Based on what we've heard, we may not bother, though now that I've read this unbelievably convoluted book, I'm dying to know how they tried to simplify it into a 2-hour story.
I liked this WWII-aftermath story, mostly, and I thought it was a good choice to make the protagonist a reporter rather than a soldier...a little less cliched, and easier to relate to for most readers, I figure. I'm a sucker for WWII stories, anyway, and this one would have been really good except for the weird, squeeze-everything-in, tie-every-character-back-in ending. I could tell what was happening, so I more or less skimmed the last 40 pages or so to confirm.
Still worth reading, though. Really interesting war details and nicely drawn characters.
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