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Three Day Road
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edit: it’s been about a month since i’ve read this and i’m increasing my rating to 5 stars. the plot of this book and the main character’s thoughts have just stuck with me so much, and after finishing an 8 page paper about this book it just made me fully comprehend how genius it all flows together. highly recommend.
4.5 Stars.
My war literature professor is just out here trying to make me cry, huh?
This book was beautiful. It's gruesome and explicit, and at times highly uncomfortable, but it's not just a book about raw killing with no message. The main character has such a fleshed out backstory and inner conflict and I was rooting for him throughout the entire book and just had so much empathy for him even though we're two completely different ethnicities and I've never had to be in a war. I'm usually not a fan of a book being told through flashbacks, but this integrated it nicely and kept me interested enough in knowing what was going on in the past so that they end up where they are.
It's a tragic book, but I totally guessed the ending. The reason I took off half a star is because I think I wanted more finality in the ending, and there's still a few things I have questions about that went under-explained. Also, there were so many different flashbacks that sometimes the locations and experiences got muddled since all the trenches were very similar. Also, almost every character in this that I liked died, so it's fINE.
4.5 Stars.
My war literature professor is just out here trying to make me cry, huh?
This book was beautiful. It's gruesome and explicit, and at times highly uncomfortable, but it's not just a book about raw killing with no message. The main character has such a fleshed out backstory and inner conflict and I was rooting for him throughout the entire book and just had so much empathy for him even though we're two completely different ethnicities and I've never had to be in a war. I'm usually not a fan of a book being told through flashbacks, but this integrated it nicely and kept me interested enough in knowing what was going on in the past so that they end up where they are.
It's a tragic book, but I totally guessed the ending. The reason I took off half a star is because I think I wanted more finality in the ending, and there's still a few things I have questions about that went under-explained. Also, there were so many different flashbacks that sometimes the locations and experiences got muddled since all the trenches were very similar. Also, almost every character in this that I liked died, so it's fINE.
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Reading Progress
September 15, 2017
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Started Reading
September 15, 2017
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September 15, 2017
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6.84%
"Book number two for my war literature class, let's go. So far, not bad at all! I'm hooked, but exhausted"
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September 16, 2017
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for-class
September 16, 2017
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read-in-2017
September 19, 2017
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38.75%
"between how graphic this is, both violence-wise and sexually, it's gonna be reeeeeally interesting to discuss in class 🙃"
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September 25, 2017
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75.78%
"this book is disturbing and graphic but what did i expect signing up for a war class"
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September 28, 2017
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Finished Reading
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Dec 03, 2017 04:04PM
Out of curiosity, how did your class study this book? What kinds of methods did you use to study it, and what was the overall opinion that the class and the professor had after finishing it?
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I agree with you and I also went back and changed my rating. Most books I finish are enjoyable but forgettable reads. This is one book that stays with you. I also heard a NPR podcast shortly after I read this about the healing properties of heat and early origins of this phenomenon in Native American sweat lodges used for prayer and healing
