The English Patient

by Michael Ondaatje | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: Global Overview for this book
Registered by quietorchid of Saint Paul, Minnesota USA on 9/21/2012
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Journal Entry 1 by quietorchid from Saint Paul, Minnesota USA on Friday, September 21, 2012
I missed this book when it first came out. Then all the hoopla over the movie. I didn't like the movie. Story of a nurse who stays behind with a patient, too burned and critical to be moved from a hospital that must be evacuated at the end of WWII.

Okay, I liked the book. Very evocative in the images of wartorn Italy. You could almost picture the scenes of the ruined convent. Story is basically of a series of love triangles, where all the wounded members come to terms with their lives and ruined hopes amongst the curious stillness that hovers over a recent war area where ordinary life has not yet returned.

Journal Entry 2 by quietorchid at Saint Paul, Minnesota USA on Saturday, October 20, 2012

Released 11 yrs ago (10/20/2012 UTC) at Saint Paul, Minnesota USA

CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:

Put into the Medicine Chest III Bookbox.


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Journal Entry 3 by wingGoryDetailswing at Nashua, New Hampshire USA on Sunday, March 3, 2013
I'm claiming this from the Medicine Chest bookbox. I'd seen the 1996 film adaptation when it came out (due primarily to a raging crush on Ralph Fiennes {wry grin}), and while I did read the book shortly after that, it's been long enough that I'd like to give it another look.

Later: I liked it, but didn't quite love it. As with my first reading (and with the film as well), Kip the Sikh was my favorite character, though the most wrenching scene was the one in which Almasy, trying to find help for the wounded Katharine, is captured and imprisoned, as he realizes what this means for her... But I wasn't very keen on the whole love-triangle, as I found the characters more interesting when they were at death's door than when they were flirting or being jealous. Maybe it's just me {wry grin}.

[There's a TV Tropes page for the book.]

Released 10 yrs ago (5/7/2013 UTC) at DCU Credit Union and ATM, 378 Middlesex Rd in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts USA

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

I plan to leave this book on a table in the lobby of the credit union at around 11:30 or so; hope the finder enjoys it!

*** Released as part of the 2013 Movie release challenge. ***

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