William Styron - Sophie's Choice

Pros: masterful storytelling, interesting reading

Cons: sexual parts, long

Review: "Sophie's Choice" is an outstanding work of fiction by William Styron. I first read this book for one of my high school English classes. At the time, it was a bit of a struggle to get through as the book is 626 pages of tiny print. However,...

Pros: Tragic masterpiece

Cons: None

Review: "Sophie's Choice" is one of the great novels of the century, a blend of tragedy and humor, that perfectly evokes Brooklyn, Tidewater Virginia, and Auschwitz within its pages.

Stingo is a Southerner. Aspiring to be the next Faulkner,...

Pros: The Plot

Cons: The length

Review: Sophie's Choice made me think about the freedom we take for granted in the United States. Sophie's Choice is about a women that must choose between her son or daughter. This is during a war, and she must abadon one of the children. The book is a...

Pros: Well written, historically accurate, great story.

Cons: Sexually explicit in some parts.

Review: "Sophie's Choice", by William Styron, takes the reader deep into New York city in the post war 1950s. Through the narrator, we are introduced not only to the healing of a nation and a people, but to the new struggles which have been inherited...

Pros: Sophie's story is compelling and Nathan is an amazingly drawn character.

Cons: The guy telling the story has nothing to do with it.

The Bottom Line: It's worth checking out simply because it's one of those books that people always talk about.

Review: On the back cover of the book, it says the following:
"Once or twice in a generation, an astonishing novel reminds us of the staggering and beautiful experience we can find in the best of fiction."

I think Sophie's Choice could have been...

Pros: Decent story, worth reading, Styron is a master storyteller.

Cons: Horribly bogged down with needless detail which sends the story askew

The Bottom Line: Break out your thesauras if you want to read this and dont plan anything else for awhile.

Review: Sophies Choice is a novel told through the eyes of a young southerner, Stingo, who moves to Brooklyn in 1947. There he meets his neighbors, Sophie and Nathan. The story revolves around Stingo trying to write a book and his friendship with Sophie and ...

Pros: Interesting story from Auschwitz

Cons: Unlikable characters and irrelevant plot lines

The Bottom Line: Skip this book and read another piece of Holocaust literature instead.

Review: First let me say a few things... I have never seen the movie so this review is based solely on the book and is in no way a comparison of book and film. Secondly, I am not a professional critic so I will do my best here to explain why I didn't enjoy ...