I recently finished the book The Long Walk by Slavomir Rawicz. In the beginning, I did not like it very much. It was not exactly the very first book I would pick up from the shelf.
The reason I chose to read this book was because my world geography teacher recommended it and had said that it was very interesting and good. When I first started reading it, all I could think was that everybody has a different opinion, and mine and hers differed greatly.
When I finally got closer to the end of the book, I started to like it more. I liked it when there was more action, and I found that my favorite parts where when they met with other people besides every one that set off and escaped from the camp in the first place.
From the description on the back of the book, and also from what I had heard from people who read the book too, I thought that the deaths would get more into description, and that it would be more heartfelt and sad. Instead, the people that died in this book just slowly faded, before dying, without any type of mourning. At least, that is what it seemed like to me.
I did like this book, but I wish that it had been paced just a little bit faster. I know that you can’t really expect anything to fast paced from a historical fiction, but I felt like he went into unnecessary boring detail.
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