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Review title: Some very long nights
Product review: I looked forward to plunging into Eicher's the Longest Night.On my third night of reading it, about half-way through,I had had enough. It was boring the socks off me. Like many a Civil War buff, I've read and re-read Catton and Foote. They have their flaws, as Eicher points out in his introduction. But so does Hamlet. Catton and Foote wrote literature. Eicher is not in their league. Half-way through, I had read nothing new to me. Moreover, Eicher hadn't created any narrative framework for the story: nothing that indicated where we were or where we were going. Many of his sentences were awkward, labored, and overlong. Not a touch of poetry anywhere.This might be a book for the Civil War buff who has to read everything about it. But Catton and Foote wrote about the Civil War as if it were a living thing. Eicher makes it sound as cold and distant as the furthest reaches of outer space.
