Pros: Sophie's story is compelling and Nathan is an amazingly drawn character. Cons: The guy telling the story has nothing to do with it.
On the back cover of the book, it says the following:
"Once or twice in a generation, an astonishing novel reminds us of the staggering and beautiful experience we can find in the best of fiction."
Pros: masterful storytelling, interesting reading Cons: sexual parts, long
"Sophie's Choice" is an outstanding work of fiction by William Styron. I first read this book for one of my high school English classes. At the time, it was a bit of a struggle to get through as the book is 626 pages of tiny print. However,...
Pros: Well written, historically accurate, great story. Cons: Sexually explicit in some parts.
"Sophie's Choice", by William Styron, takes the reader deep into New York city in the post war 1950s. Through the narrator, we are introduced not only to the healing of a nation and a people, but to the new struggles which have been inherited...
Pros: Interesting story from Auschwitz Cons: Unlikable characters and irrelevant plot lines
First let me say a few things... I have never seen the movie so this review is based solely on the book and is in no way a comparison of book and film. Secondly, I am not a professional critic so I will do my best here to explain why I didn't enjoy ...
"Sophie's Choice" is one of the great novels of the century, a blend of tragedy and humor, that perfectly evokes Brooklyn, Tidewater Virginia, and Auschwitz within its pages.
Stingo is a Southerner. Aspiring to be the next Faulkner,...
Pros: Decent story, worth reading, Styron is a master storyteller. Cons: Horribly bogged down with needless detail which sends the story askew
Sophies Choice is a novel told through the eyes of a young southerner, Stingo, who moves to Brooklyn in 1947. There he meets his neighbors, Sophie and Nathan. The story revolves around Stingo trying to write a book and his friendship with Sophie and ...
Sophie's Choice made me think about the freedom we take for granted in the United States. Sophie's Choice is about a women that must choose between her son or daughter. This is during a war, and she must abadon one of the children. The book is a...
One of the two or three finest novels about the Holocaust, Sophie's Choice encapsulates through Sophie's anguished story the sweep and brutality of hi...More at Barnes & Noble.com
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