STILL NO SPOILERS!Done. Not one of my favorite books. I think lots of other people might like it. The history clearly chronicled in ythe last 100 pages was a plus. For me the characters had no depth. What you get is a story of Ireland's history through the 1800s and up to the beginning of the Gre...
This was the first of Leon Uris' books that I'd read and I was pleasently surprised. The book dives back into the history of the Jewish population as it moved from Eastern Europe in the early 19th century and gives an impression of the hardships faced just in living both in the Pale but also in t...
I've been on a Jews/Israel reading jag lately, and as part of this, I decided that rereading Exodus might be worth it. I had read it when I was much younger and I remembered being pretty enthralled by the adventure story aspect of the novel, but I also suspected that I might find other aspects of...
This is a story about a Polish man Adam Kelno who was accused of the war crime of doing improper surgeries, for example, without the use of anesthetic or removing healthy people’s reproductive organs during WWII in a Polish concentration camp. After he was tried and found not guilty he fled to r...
I'm not sure what it is with Leon Uris. Maybe it's just me, but I feel like every time I get through one of his stories, the ending just disappoints. That's how I felt about Armageddon and Topaz, and it's the same here.SPOILERS will follow: This book, dealing with the origins of the modern Arab...
The #4 bestseller of 1961 was another door stopper but mostly a page turner. It is the second version I have read of events concerning the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. I also read John Hersey's The Wall as part of my reading list for 1950. Each book takes a slightly different look at this a...
Independent and used bookstores are, for me, as much weapons to my pocketbook as cheesecake is to my hips.I love seeking out those shops in small towns, some of which I was in (shops and towns) last week. In these communities, booksellers shared floor space with clothing boutiques; animal barns (...
The protagonist Zachary O'Hara grew up in the Civil War years in the home of his dad the legendary U.S. Marine Paddy O'Hara. All Zachary ever wanted to be was a Marine like his dad. He enlists in the Marines and soon finds himself on the cutting edge of a fight to save the Marines themselves fr...
I remember Leon Uris as a very good novelist. His Mila18 in the early sixties introduced me to the horrors of Nazi anti-semitism. Although I forgot the story line years ago, the general viewpoint Uris provided has colored my attitudes ever since. I don't recall reading any other Uris novels until...
During a recent trip to the hospital, this book was handed to me to read and pass the time. A good opening had the potential to grab you. Leon Uris doesn't disappoint here. The shoo-in for the presidency in november's election, an orphan raised roman-catholic, finds one week before the election t...
Hard to get into the "Marine Stuff" WW II in the Pacific.Stories of individual soldiers was good.Coral Atols-island formed by depressions in the ocean. Larger islands sunk leaving hard shelled little coral ones above the surface.Micronesia-one of the 3 major groups of islands in the central Pacif...
It was a repeat performance of a ten-year ritual that neither of them seemed to tire of. Judy had a rounded voluptuous body, soft without being fat. She always sat before the mirror putting on her face without a bra because she knew Clint liked to look at her. When she finally did slip into the b...