![]() ![]() there are moments when Patton gets more into it, some passages near the end stand out as his better moments of narration, but on the whole the vigor is missing. ![]() ![]() there is little emotion in any speech, and the poetry in narrative passages is lost into a big homogenous sameness. the temperament of the characters, Morgan especially, all seem to blend together into boredom. not only did i tire quickly of Patton's breathy whisper which he applies to almost every facet of this novel, it is so passive that it is completely wrong for the prose style and the action. While I applaud the notion behind getting "name" actors to honor Hemingway by narrating his works, there is a problem that arises too often: good actors are not automatically good narrators. ![]()
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