Trinity - Leon Uris

I just finished reading Trinity over the Thanksgiving weekend of 2008. It was fantastic. I am voracious reader, but I have put off reading this book for 25 years, and now my regret is that I waited so long to read this book. I first came in contact with this book when I was in graduate school. One of my friends was reading it, and he encouraged me to read it. I checked it out at the library and read the first three chapters. I was hooked, but my graduate studies and work forced me to put the book on hold. Well, over the next 25 years after graduate school, I would wander over to the section in the library that shelved all of Uris' books. I would pickup Trinity, only to ...  Read the complete review

I remember many years ago, oh it must have been around 1981 when I was but a nipper, hearing mention of a book called Trinity. The Irish hunger striker Bobby Sands had stated that Trinity was his favourite book of all time. Now, you may or may not sypathise with Sands' politics etc. but what is apparent is that he was a very intelligent man, and a great poet and scholar. During his time in the Maze prison he had almost memorised the entire book word for word. In the evenings after lights-out he used to recite chapters of the book from memory for his fellow inmates. I was far too young at that time (about 10 or 11) even to consider reading something like Trinity, but ...  Read the complete review