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Summary: War is Ugly
Review: Excellent book on how bad it is to fight in a war. The book gives a good look into how it was during the Civil War. Nasty, Nasty business is what it was. For the ugliness of war I prefer All Quiet on the Western Front but this book would be a close second. Excellent.
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Summary: OH MY GOD!!!
Review: THIS BOOK IS HORENDOUS, HORRIBLE, AND JUST PLAIN TRASH. EW. THIS BOOK DESERVES NO STARS, BUT YOU CAN ONLY GIVE ONE AT THE LOWEST. WHATEVER YOU DO, DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME ON THIS ****. IT IS STUPID.
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Summary: ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE!!! POORLY WRITTEN!!! SOMEBODY GAG ME!!!
Review: Horrible. Horrible. Horrible. Don't read it unless your forced to for a class. I had to read for 6th grade social studies summer reading. One of the questions on the test was "Do you recommend this book for next year's summer reading?" I said, "NO". Gag me please. Ew. A crime to literature. No real plot. Choppy Sentences. Poorly Written. Annoying names. Names like "Tall Man", and then when they were talking to eachother they use names like "James". Not a classic. Not a good book whatsoever. Do not read it. I get shivers thinking about it's badness. Ew. Ew. Ew!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: PLEASE!!!!!!
Review: The Red Badge Of Courage is TERRIBLE! Stephen Crane COULD NOT WRITE! And one thing I find disturbing is that people see this as a 'classic'. This is NOT A CLASSIC! It depicts the vision of the Civil War through a child fighting, but THERE IS NOTHING EXCITING ABOUT IT!
If you want to read about war, then I suggest that you pick up a Tom Clancy novel, and enjoy that than reading this crap!
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Summary: The Red Badge of Courage
Review: Summary: This book is about a young man named Henry Fleming. He joins the army during the Civil War as a Union. He enlists in the army because he wanted to get the glory in the military. At first he questions his courage. He begins to get afraid of dying in the battlefield. When they are on the battlefield the first time, Henry gets cornered and starts to fire his gun. Later the Confederates attack again and he gets afraid and runs away. He sees the wounded in a camp. He starts to talk to a man who had been shot twice. The man is proud to be in the army and starts to ask Henry where he is hurt. Now Henry feels horrible for leaving his fellow friends and soldiers on the field. He goes back to the battlefield to fight where the men are retreating. While they are going back to camp, Henry gets hit in the head with a rifle. So while he is at camp with his wound he feels horrible for fleeing. The next day while they are fighting he grabs the flag and charges with it towards the Confederates. He becomes a wild soldier in combat. He starts to fight with honor for his country. Review: I thought this book was great. It showed how some soldiers felt toward war. When I think of war, I think of the people that enlist into the war without any fears or confusion. But this book shows that people join the war to represent their country but they are still afraid to die. They are leaving all their loved ones home to show honor towards their homeland. I loved this book because Henry overcomes his fears and becomes an honorary soldier. Recommendation: I recommend this book to people that love war and battle, because it is about the Civil War. Also, I would recommend this book to people with fears. I say this because Henry is a man that is afraid to die on the battlefield. Later in the book, he realizes that death will come on its own, but his guilt of cowardice for his men wouldn't. This is an inspirational book for many people.
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Summary: A great Action packed and educational book
Review: Stephen Crane has done the imposible! He has made a book that is action packed and that is educaional! the book is about a young boy who enlists for the cival war and is given a look of what war is realy about. He is like most kids, he thinks that he can fight be once he gets on the battle field he meets death face to face and thats when he finds out that he is not ready for the war. A great book over all for people all ages!
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Summary: not the best but good
Review: this book is horrible at first but it picks up. It really puts you in the head of the youth (i forget his name) it is a little hard to follow at times and it only really catches the readers attetion for short terms but it is a great use of description the yankee soilders in this book sound like steryotypical rebel soilders thoguh and its hard to understand their dialog not the best book but if you are into the civil war it is a good read
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Summary: Poorly written, to say the least.
Review: "The Red Badge of Courage" is a poor excuse for a classic. I took me over a month to finish this dreadful book, and I have nothing to show for it. I've gained nothing by reading it, except hatred towards Crane's writing style. With nearly no recognizable plot, you'll wonder if your just reading random words thrown on a page. Only read this if you must, because it is not at all pleasurable. I do not recommend.
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Summary: Badly Written
Review: The only reason I can see for this book being a classic is its focus on the psychology of Henry the protagonist instead of the glory of war but even that is not done well. Maybe it is considered a classic because it was the first book about war to employ this strategy.
The book is poorly written. The sentences are choppy. There is no flow, no lyricism and ultimately little point in any of it.
If this manuscript was submitted today to any publisher it would be laughed at and thrown in the garbage. It is that badly written. Unless you're forced to read this for some class stay away. If you are a lover of great literature you will be greatly disappointed. I suggest Catch-22, Slaughterhouse Five, The Naked and the Dead, All Quiet on the Western Front, etc. Anything is better than this.
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Summary: The +'s and -'s
Review: The Red Badge of Courage is a book you have to appreciate for its historical significance. Written during the time when war was glorified and considered romantic, this book was probably the first war novel to be more realistic and write a story from the soldier's point of view. It's realistic, down to the awkward slang of the lower-class soldiers. Because it was written in less than two weeks, the plot moves quickly, the book is short, and consequently, Crane makes a few mistakes. When I read the book, I found the protoganist's character very poorly developped. I couldn't picture him in my mind and descriptions of his personality were either vague or non-existant. I need to be able to connect or identify with a main character to enjoy a book, especially when reading a war novel. Henry's character merely came across to me as arrogant and mean. His character didn't change all that much and that was disappointing. At the end, I got the sense that he had turned back into the guy he was in the beginning, and became the "war hero" he always hoped he would be, even if he wimped out a few times on the way. And just when I was beginning to become convinced that Henry's "cowardice" was truly meaningful and important, Crane has him become some stupid "war hero," waving the American flag and glorifying war like everyone else. Am I interpreting this wrong? Perhaps. But if you're looking for a book to show the more gruesome and negative aspects of war, consider "All Quiet on the Western Front," "Catch-22," or most modern war novels. This book, for me, failed to send a messege, to shock me and teach me something meaningful. Read the book anyways, but more so you can just say you read it.
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