Review: The Good Soldier
User Review - GoodreadsSometimes the prose is delightful, but the sexism so unbearable that it's impossible to enjoy a book. It just comes off as at once boorish and insipid, which is something of a trick. But I hear Parade ...
Review: The Good Soldier
User Review - GoodreadsFord Madox Ford saw this novel as his masterpiece, and it is no surprise that everyone else sees it this way also - including me. My experience of this is the same as I felt when I first encountered ...
Review: The Good Soldier
User Review - Bonnie - Goodreads”This is the saddest story I have ever heard.” So begins the 1915 novel by Ford Maddox Ford, a book that even he, ten years after its publication, was surprised by the combined intricacies of voice ... Read full review
Review: The Good Soldier
User Review - GoodreadsThis book was so tied to the period about which it was written that - while I loved it - I'm still not too sure how I feel about the actual story. Beautifully written, and told just as it would be if ...
Review: The Good Soldier
User Review - yuuyh - aNobiiFrom time to time, I would encounter a book that reminds me of Ford's Good Soldier, and when I check, yes, The Good Soldier is among that author's favorites! The Good Soldier is definitely a cool ... Read full review
Review: The Good Soldier
User Review - GoodreadsSo, it's the 1910's, and two married couples become inseparable friends when they meet in a sanatorium in Germany. Florence and John Dowell are from the States and they're stuck in Europe because ...
Review: The Good Soldier
User Review - Guy Howard - GoodreadsFord has been said to have more fans than readers. Well, I struggled with this novel over the Christmas period and, as a result, may now be said to have closed that gap by one. This is an ambiguous ... Read full review
Review: The Good Soldier
User Review - Alexander - GoodreadsThink of the digressive, mini-infodumps that double-stitch "traditional," story-driven fiction. Flashbacks that flesh out a relationship, nuggets of raw exposition that bring us up to speed with the ... Read full review
Review: The Good Soldier
User Review - [P] - GoodreadsHello everybody, my name is [P] and I am a smoker. Ah, it feels good to make that admission. I'm meant to be an ex-smoker, of course. I have, in truth, been attempting to give up for about three years ... Read full review
Review: The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion
User Review - Greta - GoodreadsAlthough this book is subtitled "A Tale of Passion", I found it to be mostly a rambling account by one of the participants in a series of triangulations describing how they all loved and/or hated each ... Read full review
