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Summary: Did not live up to the reviews, but still worth reading.
Review: I was disappointed, I read this book because of all the great reviews. For me the narrative dragged for much of the 800 pages. However it did give me a much better understanding of the tradegy of Ireland. Few books of fiction are as educational, so I would recommend it. The harmful effects of British imperialism are powerfully documented. Here's a thought though, if Uris was to write a book about the plight of the native peoples of the Americas, would it be any less tragic?
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Summary: My favorite book
Review: I'm going to name my son Conor. I'd encourage anyone to read this book, not just for the fascinating portrait of an Irish family, but also for a great lesson in the history of the Irish conflict.
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Summary: Oh, that Conor Larkin....
Review: Excellent. Beautiful. Conor Larkin is the best hero ever written. This is an Irish history course, a family story, a love story, and a truly incredible book.
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Summary: Amazing Book!!!
Review: Trinity was the absolute BEST book I have ever read. It's as simple as that. Period. READ IT OR YOU WILL MISS ONE OF THE MOST AWESOME BOOKS EVER WRITTEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Why the IRA?
Review: I am a Irish Catholic and have always wondered why all the fighting and bloodshed in Ireland. This novel answered all my questions. Its historical background puts you into the heart and soul of the Irish mainland. After reading this you may even take sides with the IRA. It has everything, irish wakes with drinkin, the origin of the irish potatoe, origins of british rule. If his other books are this good , I gotta read them!
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Summary: A Uris Classic
Review: I'm ordering this book in paperback because my current version has literally fallen into tatters from my reading it over and over again. Uris has written a saga of the intertwined histories of two families, one of Catholic subsistence farmers and the other wealthy Protestant industrialists, during the political turmoil of the late 19th century. With consummate skill, the author has depicted the time period and the characters with a deftness unexpected from someone not born and bred in Ireland. Trinity is an absolute classic of the Mila 18 variety.
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Summary: Trinity- A life altering experience
Review: I was always happy to be Irish, but it wasn't until I read Leon Uris' true work of absolute beauty and devestation that I felt real pride. This book embodies a spirit and a love of country, of life and of freedom that has never been captured before. This is a masterpiece to be handed down to all generations, so that the apathy that grips our hearts today might fade in the lilting voice and ethereal struggle of Connor Larkin and all that he represents.
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Summary: Excellent Story
Review: Though the reader must plod through the longest funeral in literary history to get to the meat of the thing, the story and backstory in the funeral set up a genuine masterpiece. There is no better storyteller than Leon Uris! This is his best.
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Summary: A very powerful, thought provoking story.
Review: I am new to Leon Uris, as I don't read that much. When I do read it is usaually Steven King or Micheal Crichton. I gave this a try at the urging of my father. I too though it was tough to get through the beginning with all the details of different characters, etc. But, it really helped portray why the characters did what they did, and made you feel like you knew them, and lived, breathed, and felt what they did in those settings. I found it terribly sad, but it sent a powerful message. I am moving on to Redemption, which continues where Trinity left off. I am appalled at how people can treat one another. The fact this still goes on is disturbing. Imperialism stinks. I wish everyone could read this book, maybe the world would be a better place...
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Summary: The wearing of the green
Review: Having come to "Trinity" after a break of some twenty years since reading the Uris classics "Exodus," "Mila 18" and "Armageddon," it was a very pleasant surprise to be able to discover that old zest for life, that lusty undercurrent which marks his work and fills it with an unmistakable energy. At the same time, "Trinity" enabled me to discover something about my own Irish background, and put the perspective of history into a new position for me altogether. In fact, so tainted were we, some of us, by the version of the other protagonists in that ghastly story, that we had a curious emotion, verging on shame, when it came to being part-Irish and perhaps more importantly, not sufficiently English. I imagine that a great many people know what I mean. It is through books like "Trinity," Keneally's "The Great Shame" and McCourt's "Angela's Ashes," that we are starting, many of us who were not born in Ireland but who have solid links of former ownership (however tenuous they might have appeared), to finally get the gist. I know one person who really had almost a prejudice against their own Irish family of last century, who came away from "Trinity" with a very different perspective indeed. It's really an awful story, and if you wonder any longer why the troubles have continued so long and so bitterly into the last century and, quite possibly, into this one, you must be reading it upside down. At the same time, it's a great Uris yarn, if one may be permitted to say so. And it doesn't make me ashamed at all, after reading this, to be doing some proper wearing of the green.
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