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Title: The Angry Hills by Leon Uris ISBN: 0-553-24414-0 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: January, 1984 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Dull and cliched
Comment: While conducting business in Greece during WWII, American writer Mike Morrison is trapped by the German advance. When he comes into possession of a secret list of Greek patriots who are pretending to be collaborators, he must go on the run to escape the enemy forces that have been assigned to retrieve the information. This is the only book by Leon Uris that I have read. I was under the impression that he was a writer who researched his subjects meticulously. Perhaps this was one of his first books, because there is very little local color here, nothing that one couldn't glean from watching movies and skimming a few travel books. Worse than that, the characters and situations are cliché from start to finish, and the prose is dull. It reads like a treatment for a typical 50s WWII flick.
Rating: 3
Summary: An entertaining war read but disapointing by Uris standards
Comment: While the book is an entertaining war novel it is dispointing by Uris standards and does not compare to such greats as Exodus,Mila 18,Trinity,the Haj and Armageddon Mike Morisson is similar to Uris' other American heroes -Gideon Zadok in Mitla Pass and Sean O Sullivan in Armageddon.Spoiled men used to the good life who show great courage in battle but lack any moral courage.They take love for granted and cruelly hurt the women who love them.They are highly egocentric and unlike Ari Ben Cannan in Exodus,Andre in Mila 18 and Connor in Trinity,the American heroes have little real commitment to any cause If you looking for an entertaining war read go for it but dont expect profound literature
Rating: 3
Summary: Uris Cuts his teeth in Greece . . . Have fun with it!
Comment: Uris is one of America's treasures as a fiction author. In this novel he takes a break from the horrors that he usually records to such delicious detail (you know, the Holocaust, Jihads and sectarian violence). He covers the escapades of a clueless reporter in Greece just when the Allies are leaving it to the German army. Said reporter has a list of Greek partisans fall into his lap and it becomes his duty to hand over this list to the OSS or British intelligence or some such body so that support for the Greek underground can be developed.
Yeah, sounds like a hackneed plot but, hey, it was written in the 1960's! These types of plots were commonplace then - and it was ok. The book is a joy to read if for no other reason than for the nostalgia of a quaint caper with the breathtaking backdrop of Greece at war.
But Uris shows he's got growing room to do in this one. He tosses off characters - especially female ones - after a few chapters. Just when you think the protagonist is starting to develop a love interest he moves on. And the 'interest' is never mentioned again. Surely, we would have seen these people tied together better in other Uris works. I was a bit surprised.
None the less, the book reads quick. And is fun.
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Title: Topaz: A Novel by Leon Uris ISBN: 0070661022 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Pub. Date: 01 June, 1967 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Battle Cry by Leon Uris ISBN: 0553259830 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1982 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Mitla Pass by Leon Uris ISBN: 0553282808 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1989 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Armageddon: A Novel of Berlin by Leon Uris ISBN: 0385003560 Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group Pub. Date: 01 June, 1964 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: A God in Ruins by Leon Uris ISBN: 0061097934 Publisher: Avon Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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