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Carry on: Reflections from a war
68 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1975
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June 15, 2010
68 pages, poetry.
To be perfectly honest, the worst book I've ever read. Why?
a) The poetry wasn't that great.
b) The poetry was irrelevant. (I know that it's about a past event, and that it was written in the past, but you can still make it relevant)
c) There were way too many words/phrases that were severely outdated, probably even for the time it was written.
a) The poetry wasn't that great. My feelings towards this book are as simple as this statement...the poetry just wasn't fabulous, nor, good, not even poor. It was terrible.
b) The poetry was irrelevant. Ok, for this one, I can understand a little bit of irrelevancy, but this was so outdated. The author could've made some references to potential future wars, or made statements that were timeless. (ex. war rips apart humans, as well as the souls that rest inside them)
c) There were way too many outdated words/phrases. I don't have a specific example due to the fact that when you google it, there are no results, but all the language is brutal to read. For a one page, 12 size poem, it takes 3-4 minutes, when it should take 2. When you write a book, one of the elements you should think about are its ability to remain current and timeless. This completely failed in this category.
In conclusion, don't read it unless all the othere genres of books have been burned (knock on wood) and you are short on ELA genres. It was genuinely that bad.
To be perfectly honest, the worst book I've ever read. Why?
a) The poetry wasn't that great.
b) The poetry was irrelevant. (I know that it's about a past event, and that it was written in the past, but you can still make it relevant)
c) There were way too many words/phrases that were severely outdated, probably even for the time it was written.
a) The poetry wasn't that great. My feelings towards this book are as simple as this statement...the poetry just wasn't fabulous, nor, good, not even poor. It was terrible.
b) The poetry was irrelevant. Ok, for this one, I can understand a little bit of irrelevancy, but this was so outdated. The author could've made some references to potential future wars, or made statements that were timeless. (ex. war rips apart humans, as well as the souls that rest inside them)
c) There were way too many outdated words/phrases. I don't have a specific example due to the fact that when you google it, there are no results, but all the language is brutal to read. For a one page, 12 size poem, it takes 3-4 minutes, when it should take 2. When you write a book, one of the elements you should think about are its ability to remain current and timeless. This completely failed in this category.
In conclusion, don't read it unless all the othere genres of books have been burned (knock on wood) and you are short on ELA genres. It was genuinely that bad.
June 15, 2010
I found this book incredibly boring. The quality of the poetry was poor, and the stanza's were too repetitive. At first, I thought that reflections of a war through poetry might be interesting, but no such luck! No disrespect to Mr. Cameron, but this book was dull and poorly written, and I would not reccomend it.
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