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I think my opinions on the book is more favorable because I felt like I built up a strong relationship with Billy Prior and Rivers by following them through the trilogy. Also, these were the first WWI novels I had read so it had a big impact on me. In particular, I got a strong sense of the wastage of youth, I know this is probably not new but this trilogy brought it home more powerfully then anything else I have read or watched. I agree with the sex and immortality link but my interpretation was that Billy is bisexual rather than homosexual and I wondered how much of his sexuality was influenced by the war and his childhood abuse.

Rivers was an interesting character to me because he has to absorb so much. yet he obviously struggles with sending men back to the front and feels some guilt at not being able to fight himself.

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