Title: The Boring German
Review: Four hundred and eighty one pages but The Good German seems much, much longer.Flat, unconvincing characters talk and talk and talk page after page, spouting dialogue as unconvincing as it is lengthy.This is movie of the week material. Berlin is NOT brought to life convincingly at all and in fact I grew tired of yet another description of the piles of brick which made up the city there in mid-1945.One problem I had is that the characters are so poorly rendered it was impossible to muster much enthusiasm for their travails. The Americans are indistinguishable from one another and Jake Geismar (the 'hero') himself is far too sketchily drawn (no small feat when he appears on each of the 481 pages) to be of any interest at all.Save your money (and save a big hunk of time) and buy the Alan Furst books. Infinitely better reads.
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