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Bezig met laden... The Chasm (1947)door Victor Canning
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. In Italy, after the war is over, Burgess is struggling with having lost his closest buddies. He keeps hallucinating their characteristics in people he sees in the street or across the bar. His friend suggests he take a trip to the countryside to clear his head. Almost subconsciously, he begins retracing the steps of a trip he and some school chums took many years previous. The trip does good to clear his head and he makes friends in a tiny village, but soon learns he is trapped with a dangerous enemy. This book started quite slow and I spent much of the beginning wondering if it was even going to get interesting as Burgess morosely pondered his dead friends, questions of why he alone would be spared and whether he deserved to live. Just as his life was beginning to seem worthwhile, the enemy was revealed and things progressed at a quicker pace. I wasn't terribly pleased with the ending, but it was really the only way things could have gone without leaving loose ends. Sad, though. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)823.914Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999WaarderingGemiddelde:
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It sounds like a reasonable story, but oh boy is it rather dull initially. Then when things seem like they might accelerate and become a bit more exciting, or at worse, more interesting, the story still just plods along at a rather methodical pace. It manages to shake off the dull air the initial third of the book had but never really gets much further than bearable.
Having read quite a few 1940s books of this genre I genuinely don't understand how some people are rating this as 5 stars. It really doesn't excel in any particular way, the scenery isn't vibrant, the characters aren't particularly memorable or constructed with depth, the story itself isn't novel or gripping, it really is just a resoundingly average book from the era to my eyes. Bob Hope's 1944 world war 2 memoir I Never Left Home has more excitement. ( )