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The Stalin Organ
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bookshelves: genre-historical, war, wwii, favourites, own, genre-literary
May 30, 2013
bookshelves: genre-historical, war, wwii, favourites, own, genre-literary
Okay, this book is about as relentless and merciless as the artillery attack ("Feuerwalze") it describes. I've read it in one day, and the closest thing I can think of, it's All Quiet on the Western Front ~35 years alter on the EASTERN Front. Fascinating when and where he uses the character's actual names, too. The Russians have names, the Germans only sometimes, and late in the book. Not what I would have expected.
I have "Payback" here in German and am slightly scared to read it now. Some sentences are gorgeous, amazing, splinters rammed deep into your brain. It's a book I'll re-read, I haven't finished grappling with it, but this round, it won.
I have "Payback" here in German and am slightly scared to read it now. Some sentences are gorgeous, amazing, splinters rammed deep into your brain. It's a book I'll re-read, I haven't finished grappling with it, but this round, it won.
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Reading Progress
May 30, 2013
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Started Reading
May 30, 2013
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May 31, 2013
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19.64%
"Very, very powerful. H uses a neat trick - nobody has a name, so they are all functions ("the Major", "the Private"), apart, from, I think, omne Russian so far, but he's only there for half a page at this point."
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May 31, 2013
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