Ah... Found this after already seeing & commenting on your TofY movie review. I will agree that the book is great at capturing that WWI period. I just felt her writing came across as someone trying to sound overly educated. For example "... and owned a singularly infelicitous cognomen..."??? I guess stating he had an "unfortunate nickname" would have been beneath her 😉 But, I do hope to finish this book someday... It's been on my Goodreads "currently reading" list for 2 years. I refuse to DNF 😁
Lol, I didn´t remmeber she had written that! I totally agree with what you´re saying, and I´m glad that people still decided to make the movie, but with considerable changes that in the end turned out to be good moves!
Ah... Found this after already seeing & commenting on your TofY movie review. I will agree that the book is great at capturing that WWI period. I just felt her writing came across as someone trying to sound overly educated. For example "... and owned a singularly infelicitous cognomen..."??? I guess stating he had an "unfortunate nickname" would have been beneath her 😉 But, I do hope to finish this book someday... It's been on my Goodreads "currently reading" list for 2 years. I refuse to DNF 😁
Lol, I didn´t remmeber she had written that! I totally agree with what you´re saying, and I´m glad that people still decided to make the movie, but with considerable changes that in the end turned out to be good moves!