I just got back from vacation where I had a little more time to read. During that time I finally finished Jeff Shaara's take on WWI: To The Last Man.
I'll start out by saying I have read all of Shaara's previous novels about the Civil, Revolution, and Spanish-American Wars. All of these books were good page turning reads.
Just like WWI got bogged down into a stalemate of trench warfare until the American's arrived, so did this novel. Shaara's previous novels contain lots of battlefield prose. In this novel, like the war, there was lots of political wrangling to discuss. While informative not the most entertaining read. Once the American's started shooting the novel picked up it's pace.
Not that I didn't enjoy reading the novel, it just wasn't as good as his other efforts. I beleive WWI is often; and rightly so, over shadowed by WWII. I think Shaara wrote To The Last Man to set up his WWII trilogy which is only two thirds complete. I look forward to reading those later on this fall.
I have the first six novels in Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt Series on loan to me and I need to get those knocked out before I read anymore Shaara.
However, I am in the last 100 pages of Brad Thor's The Last Patriot. It is by far Thor's best novel and I'm not done with, but I will be by the end of the evening.
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Welcome to The Last 100 Pages
I am a compulsive reader. I have thought about starting a group called Over-Readers Anonymous, but that would have taken too much time from my reading. So I decided to start this blog instead.
The Last 100 Pages.
When reading a novel the last 100 pages are usually what determines weather you'll finish the book and run to the computer to locate the author's next book, (if you don't have it already) or slam the book down and go "WTF was that?"
In this blog I plan to review novels that I've read. I read mostly popular fiction, westerns and historical fiction. Occasionally I'll mix in a non-fiction. What I won't be doing is discussing off the wall, out of the way, artsy stuff acadamia gets upset isn't more widedly read. There's a reason it isn't. If you like that stuff you won't be reading here for very long. I will also write about topics that surround readers in our society. Like what a pain in the ass hardback books are compared to paperbacks, or why I keep an excel spreadsheet of everything I've read.
That's all for now, I am not yet within the last 100 pages of "To The Last Man" by Jeff Shaara.
The Last 100 Pages.
When reading a novel the last 100 pages are usually what determines weather you'll finish the book and run to the computer to locate the author's next book, (if you don't have it already) or slam the book down and go "WTF was that?"
In this blog I plan to review novels that I've read. I read mostly popular fiction, westerns and historical fiction. Occasionally I'll mix in a non-fiction. What I won't be doing is discussing off the wall, out of the way, artsy stuff acadamia gets upset isn't more widedly read. There's a reason it isn't. If you like that stuff you won't be reading here for very long. I will also write about topics that surround readers in our society. Like what a pain in the ass hardback books are compared to paperbacks, or why I keep an excel spreadsheet of everything I've read.
That's all for now, I am not yet within the last 100 pages of "To The Last Man" by Jeff Shaara.
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