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Dec. 29th, 2005
Books - Band of Brothers
Dec. 29th, 2005 03:17 pmI decided to bring a book with me today (for the quiet periods): Band Of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose.
This book mislead me a litte in how it portrays itself. I was expecting "a tale of heroic adventures and soul-shattering confrontations", but what I got was transcripts of actual events presented in quite a boring way. I read the first chapter and decided to put it down as his style didn't grip me at all, he jumps around too many people for the reader to become involved with the story. It ceases to be a book and becomes a well documented record of events.
Stephen Spielberg and Tom Hanks may have made a good TV show from it, but this book isn't that good at all.
This book mislead me a litte in how it portrays itself. I was expecting "a tale of heroic adventures and soul-shattering confrontations", but what I got was transcripts of actual events presented in quite a boring way. I read the first chapter and decided to put it down as his style didn't grip me at all, he jumps around too many people for the reader to become involved with the story. It ceases to be a book and becomes a well documented record of events.
Stephen Spielberg and Tom Hanks may have made a good TV show from it, but this book isn't that good at all.