The tagged HF won him the Pulitzer Prize; though he wrote many more books. Many became movies. He lived to 103!
#WeRemember #HermanWouk @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
The tagged HF won him the Pulitzer Prize; though he wrote many more books. Many became movies. He lived to 103!
#WeRemember #HermanWouk @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
A good read. From Ens. Willie Keith‘s perspective, what goes around comes around.
This was crammed with description but maintained a decent pace throughout. I found my opinion of the main personalities kept changing over the course of the book; a challenging case indeed. Recommended for travel or for long afternoons at home, to get stuck into it properly.
I'm at a work conference for a few days. I packed these three print books, and I have ebooks on my iPad, and I have audiobooks on my phone.
Me: "I still don't think I've packed enough books."
BF: "I think you have enough books."
Joke's on him; I finished the tagged book just now ?
I can‘t always read fantasy. So for once a Pulitzer. Anyone read this?
RIP Herman Wouk ♡
I read this for a military history class in undergrad, and I liked it so much that I didn't sell the book back at the end of the semester. #sail #lyricalapril
I read a lot of good books in 2016, but for me there was a clear fiction and non-fiction favorite! #seasonsreadings2016 #Bestof2016
Listened to this book several months ago. Essentially a coming of age story for the narrator Willie Keith, a well off young man living without purpose who joins the navy in WW2 rather than being drafted into the Army. Keith is assigned as a junior officer under a series of Captain's including the tyrannical and vindictive Queeg, a long term navy man whose action may endanger the crew and who is subject to a mutiny by his XO. The story doesn't
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Great read! 1952 Pulitzer Prize winner. I loved the cover.