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Date Posted: 14:21:16 12/05/01 Wed
Author: mt. healthy mountaineer, unhappy reviewer
Subject: ANHOW Review of Books "The Hope" by Herman Wouk

Length: 692 pages, hardback
Published: 1993 by Little, Brown
Genre: Historical fiction

OK - I went into this book hoping it would be a James Michener-type epic with sweeping characters and a grand sense of the rich field of Middle Eastern history since World War II. What I got was a romance novel about 3 men's boring love lifes and their boring affairs with a little war thrown in for spice.

The book starts out well but becomes hopelessly sappy. In addition, I was irritated that the story was told exclusively from the Israeli point of view. I stopped reading about halfway through.

My grade: F

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