Book Count (since 1 January 2012)

Book Count (since 1 January 2014): 30

Friday 19 February 2010

The Great Lover by Jill Dawson

Based on the life of Rupert Brooke, the fiction is entwined with his poems and letters as well as facts about his life. Unfortunately, his life was not very interesting and his poetry was average. It was fairly interesting to understand that he was not really a war poet and that he struggled with mental illness and homosexuality. But the narrative is too disjointed and frankly he is portrayed of a but of a twat.

I did learn that Rupert Brooke died of a blood disorder following a mosquito bite rather than in action. But it isn't worth reading the whole book to find that out.

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