Review: Amazing
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 24, 2013
Reading this book for the first time 115 years after it had been written can be challenging.At times I managed to immerse myself in the period. Human superiority over other species was unchallenged, science superiority with all the new discoveries made man feel overpowerful, darwin theories were quite fresh (only 30 years before), but still horses where the main transportation system, trains were a novelity, cars were only for the ultra-rich, and women were just a commodity-slaves for men.In those moments I really felt the book and loved it. I felt for the horses that were slaughered (i suspect that the author read black beauty for a couple of comments he wrote here and there) and the poor proud militars going against someone so immensly over themselves. I loved the strong characters and the weak ones. I loved how he made people react to the catastrophe (mostly like sheep with wolves).