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Title: The Booker Prize (Upper Class Novels Only Please)
Review: Dull. Dissapointing. Snobbery is evident within the narrative - i.e. from the writer not the characters, - ranks below officer are as a seperate species. Some of the images created within the trilogy are worthwhile and memorable. Strange to see the author obviously relishing the deliberately crude language of the extremely graphic sex scenes, and yet shy away from the more extreme graphics of trench-warfare, but perhaps this is intentional; showing we are more disgusted by descriptions of sexual extremities than by the extreme violence of war. Billy Prior suddenly becomes a Poet in his diary. -This fluency does not fit with his earlier appearances. Generally, I thought, a very average book. Can't understand why she felt the need to make a trilogy of this story - it may have made one good book. Still, glad everyone else found it so brilliant. Maybe I'm just thick.
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