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The Good Soldier Švejk
The Good Soldier Švejk
Cecil Parrott
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3.0 (1)
Pages
752
Published
1921
1 review
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Authors
Cecil Parrott, Jaroslav Hašek +1
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Cecil Parrott
Jaroslav Hašek
Fiction · Classics
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Josef Lada
Terka
🪖 The Good Soldier Švejk 🪖 Okay, I’m gonna be honest — I actually really liked this book. 😭📖 The whole story is so weird, chaotic and genuinely funny that I kept finding myself thinking, what the actual f••• is going on? 💀 Švejk is such a ridiculous character, and somehow his completely chaotic way of dealing with everything makes the story really entertaining. I really liked the humor and the whole atmosphere. It’s a very different kind of war story — instead of making everything feel heroic or dramatic, it uses satire and absurd situations to show how ridiculous war and military bureaucracy can be. BUT… I have to admit that the reading itself was sometimes pretty difficult. 😭 Some parts felt long, there are SO many stories and conversations, and sometimes I was just sitting there like: girl, where the hell are we going with this? 💀 Still, I think that’s also part of what makes the book so iconic. It has its own weird style, and once I got into it, I actually started enjoying it a lot more. It’s definitely not a super easy read, but the humor made it worth it for me. 🖤📖 Final rating: 9/10 🪖💀 Would I reread it? Maybe, but probably not anytime soon. Would I recommend it? Yes — if you can survive the f•••••• long reading. 😭