Steven

Interesting enough. It's hard to imagine living during wartime and how the war touched so many lives.

This book and ‘Shadow Divers' made very interesting comparisons between the German and American soldiers as people and the ‘honor' of fighting for one's country. I'm not sure I'm ready to think there was much honor in what Nazi soldiers did, whether they knew about the atrocities being committed or not. Either way, they were the aggressors and I don't know how they justified the actions of their country.

This doctor seems highly unlikeable to me, and the book rambles often. Interesting to read about the subject, but many parts of the book did not relate to each other, and we jumped between topics frequently in a way that didn't drive the story forward.

I was pulled in by this book. Mr. McCarthy did an amazing job writing this book, giving enough detail that you could tell what was going on, leaving enough out that you could fill in the blanks with your imagination.

Boring. I gave up halfway through. Then I read some reviews, thinking I must have been missing something for this book to be so widely regarded as McCarthy's best work. It seemed a lot of people thought the back half was better. So I picked it up again.

I finished it three days later and I still don't like it.

I liked most of this book. It's not a part of history that I know much about. I think it did a reasonable job showing both sides of the conflict.