Another from the
scratch-off list of 100 essential novels, and the first novel to present a
realistic view of warfare apparently (except War and Peace?), but it didn’t
grab me and the formal Victorian language did not make for an easy read. I'd be
hard put to tell you much of what happened as I skimmed through.
Teresa May has just
called a General Election, which will entrench her majority and give her a
mandate for hard BREXIT, grammar schools, NHS cuts and all manner of other
awful things. Donald Trump is about to bomb Korea and it feels like the end of
days with two trigger-happy 'strong men' in charge of the two military machines
that could obliterate human life. What a horrible, horrible time.
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