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Aug 02, 2010
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it was amazing
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I loved this book. It was difficult reading emotionally especially right before the (view spoiler) , but it was brilliant. A war novel, but like the best war novels, really about the human condition. I'd be keen to see a dramatisation of it, but I don't think it would translate to the screen very well. It's a novel that kind of has to be a novel (okay, maybe it would work as a play---yes, that I could imagine). I fell in love with all o
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