Hi guys!
It’s been a long time since the last post but here I am, more than a decade later, to do a review of the last book I read: Michael Morpurgo’s best seller “War Horse”.
The novel is set in World War I period, where we will follow the life of Joey, a horse with whose eyes we will witness this crucial moment of humanity. The fact that is told from a horse’s point of view makes this piece different from any others, it was a page-turner story for me, enjoying and suffering from the beginning to the end, but what is this book talks about? It talks about love (the promise from albert to Joey that we will be together again) and friendship (the moment that Joey helps his horse friend Tophorn to not die carrying heavy guns), but at the same time is a denounce of the nonsense of any war, claiming that our enemies are not as different as they seem, and if people can just listen to each other they can solve any problems, that we can sit and talk. That reminds me a passage when a German soldier talks with his counterpart and say: “In an hour, maybe, or two we will be trying our best again each other to kill. God only knows why we do it, and I think he has maybe forgotten why. Goodbye Welshman. We have shown them, haven’t we? We have shown them that any problem can be solved between people if only they can trust each other. That is all it needs, no?”
All in all, I recommend the book to anybody interested in history and if you like it, you can also read the Magnus Opera “The Fall of the Giants” by Ken Follet which first book talks about the events of World War I, or the recent film “1917” in cinemas when I’m writing this entry.
So now it’s your turn. Did you read that? What’s your opinion? Let me know in the comments section below.
It’s been a long time since the last post but here I am, more than a decade later, to do a review of the last book I read: Michael Morpurgo’s best seller “War Horse”.
The novel is set in World War I period, where we will follow the life of Joey, a horse with whose eyes we will witness this crucial moment of humanity. The fact that is told from a horse’s point of view makes this piece different from any others, it was a page-turner story for me, enjoying and suffering from the beginning to the end, but what is this book talks about? It talks about love (the promise from albert to Joey that we will be together again) and friendship (the moment that Joey helps his horse friend Tophorn to not die carrying heavy guns), but at the same time is a denounce of the nonsense of any war, claiming that our enemies are not as different as they seem, and if people can just listen to each other they can solve any problems, that we can sit and talk. That reminds me a passage when a German soldier talks with his counterpart and say: “In an hour, maybe, or two we will be trying our best again each other to kill. God only knows why we do it, and I think he has maybe forgotten why. Goodbye Welshman. We have shown them, haven’t we? We have shown them that any problem can be solved between people if only they can trust each other. That is all it needs, no?”
All in all, I recommend the book to anybody interested in history and if you like it, you can also read the Magnus Opera “The Fall of the Giants” by Ken Follet which first book talks about the events of World War I, or the recent film “1917” in cinemas when I’m writing this entry.
So now it’s your turn. Did you read that? What’s your opinion? Let me know in the comments section below.
