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Original Title:	Le pont de la rivière Kwaï
ISBN:	0891419136 (ISBN13: 9780891419136)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Burma,1943 Myanmar
Literary Awards:	Prix Sainte-Beuve (1952)

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1942: Boldly advancing through Asia, the Japanese need a train route from Burma going north. In a prison camp, British POWs are forced into labor. The bridge they build will become a symbol of service and survival to one prisoner, Colonel Nicholson, a proud perfectionist. Pitted against the warden, Colonel Saito, Nicholson will nevertheless, out of a distorted sense of duty, aid his enemy. While on the outside, as the Allies race to destroy the bridge, Nicholson must decide which will be the first casualty: his patriotism or his pride.

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Title	:	The Bridge Over the River Kwai
Author	:	Pierre Boulle
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 224 pages
Published	:	August 28th 2007 by Presidio Press (first published 1952)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Classics. War

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Ratings: 4.02 From 7607 Users | 332 Reviews

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This was a very interesting character study.

This is one of my all-time favorite movies. So I came to the book with great expectations. This, however, is one of the few instances where I found the movie to be more intertaining than the book. The story was good, actually more believable than the movie, but not nearly as ingaging as the movie. There are two major difference between the movie and book:William Holden's character is not in the book, and the ending is very different (I won't give it away). I was slightly disappointed.

I decided to finally read this "classic" after a trip to Bangkok late last year. My colleague and I took a day trip to (and, indeed, walked across) the Bridge Over the River Kwai and visited the nearby military cemetery (which is attractive, well organized and maintained, and, well, moving), and the extremely informative museum. (OK, we rode elephants too, but that's not relevant.) Of course, all of this merely reinforces that this popular book is a work of FICTION, as was the movie. One of the

This is old school. The hardest 150 pages I have choked on so far. One thing to remember about this story is that it is fiction and not a true story. There was much more the author could have done with the story because it is fiction, but didn't. The most interesting part was the POW British soldiers building this bridge. That kept interest for the first 100 pages, but the last 50 were horrible, all the while there are old school views of the Japanese people behaving like savages and perceived

Finally! Now I'll be able to watch the classic film which was adapted from this book.It's fun to read a really straight forward, old fashioned narrative once in a while. Especially when both the protagonist and antagonist are not caricaturish, despite being painted in broad strokes of good and evil. And ofcourse, Doctor Clipton lends able support with his pleasant confusion about the protagonist.Now Watching : The Bridge Over the River Kwai :P



I enjoyed this book more than I thought I would. I was disappointed in the ending, therefore the book only gets 4 stars instead of 5.