These are some of the books I read during last half a century or so, and some of the thoughts, questions, reactions and insights, emotions - and so forth -, evoked on reading them, either then or later sometime during the interim years and decades, or even thinking over now, that are summed up here while trying to record my impressions about what I read.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
The Longest Day; by Cornelius Ryan.
It needs to be kept as a book on shelf to read more than once - one might read it, and see the film, and yet the the overwhelming character of the subject along with the exhuasting detailed research and writing leaves one submerged. One is glad to raise one's eyes and see one is not actually there, fighting for life and death for oneself as well as the human civilisation, and silently thanks those that did it before we came.