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Where the Desert Meets the Sea
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The history is correct, but the story told through these fictional characters is very bland and melodramatic. It flip flops all over with hyper hot-headed Arabs and Jews massacring each other while the British smoke cigarettes and ignore the mess that they have created by their 31 year Mandate in Palestine. Israel's history is complicated, and deserves to be told in a more balanced story where the people are more than paper dolls wanting to survive. In this book, everyone is the "bad guy" and that's just not how it was.
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April 3, 2019
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April 3, 2019
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April 7, 2019
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Jul 29, 2019 04:23PM
I agree with your review of this book.
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I couldn’t agree with your review more.
I don't totally agree. War dumbs down people - turns them into shadows of themselves with only one objective survive and if that requires killing, then, so be it, killing too. I thought the author did a pretty good job of describing how war and hatred turns otherwise likeable people into monsters...
You are right. Bland.
I’m only halfway through this book and have come to the same conclusion. It seems like it’s just going to be a long, plodding tale of hatred and violence with no likable or redeeming characters.
