Adjusting Sights Book

In all fairness, I probably would have given this a higher rating had I read it in English. And I feel pretty bad giving it just one star -- a soldier fights in the Yom Kippur War and loses his best friend to enemy fire but not his religious faith. It should be inspiring and close to my heart, right?

Alas, I found the story (such as it was) extremely hard to follow, jumping back and forth around the timeline, mixing various narratives of various soldiers, interspersing things that happened to the author as they were happening during the war with experiences told in flashback from before the war, with a home visit during one of his leaves, with things the author told to a team of soldiers debriefing him after the fact as well as things the author's fellow soldiers told to this team about their own experiences, etc. It seemed less a story than a loose, not particularly organized collection of stream-of-consciousness memories and religious musings from the front lines. Call me anal, but I really needed a beginning, middle, and end.

So even though this was rather short and should have been inspiring, I found reading it to be a chore and couldn't wait to be done. I love my Hebrew book club; I just wish I liked the books more.