"Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes" - Benjamin Disraeli
Book Details
Title: Random Acts of Heroic Love
Tag-line: Two tales of love / Two stories of loss / One great emotional journey
Genre/Category: Fiction
Type: Novel
Authour: Danny Scheinmann
Publisher: Black Swan
ISBN: 978-0-552-77514-4
Reading Details
Started Reading: 23rd October 2008
Finished Reading: Abandoned reading around 1st Nov
Comments
Something a little different for a change. I've been leant this paperback, and since I couldn't find the book I wanted at the library -- Sun Tzu's Art of War -- I decided to read this instead. From the back of the book blurb it appears to be constructed from two main story threads, one set in 1917, and another in 1992. It's a debut novel and looks interesting. I'll let you know how I get on.
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This book really put me off by being two stories in one and each having jarringly different POVs. I didn't like the present-tense prose either. It's probably my conditioned failing rather than anything inherently wrong with the book. Lots of people liked it on the Amazon reviews.
