Comtief reviewed The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
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5 stars
What an excellent book!
It reads almost as a tragicomedy, at least the audible version.
The plotting is sublime, the characterization is even better.
The characters are complex, believeable and the situations are so well written that they seem real. There are no black and white rights and wrongs in this book.
I am not sure if I have read a fictional novel before with characters and events as real as in Caine Mutiny. And yet there is nothing dull about this book, even if it is almost as realistic as a documentary.
True, it has a slow start, and it truly gets going in about the last third, but there is good humour throughout the book and you also never know what kind of nitpickery crap the captain comes up with next, while also waiting for the crew to crack under the pressure and the book to live up …
What an excellent book!
It reads almost as a tragicomedy, at least the audible version.
The plotting is sublime, the characterization is even better.
The characters are complex, believeable and the situations are so well written that they seem real. There are no black and white rights and wrongs in this book.
I am not sure if I have read a fictional novel before with characters and events as real as in Caine Mutiny. And yet there is nothing dull about this book, even if it is almost as realistic as a documentary.
True, it has a slow start, and it truly gets going in about the last third, but there is good humour throughout the book and you also never know what kind of nitpickery crap the captain comes up with next, while also waiting for the crew to crack under the pressure and the book to live up to its name, since it takes quite a while to get to the mutiny part of the book.
Herman Wouk is a genius writer.
