Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I love reading, and maybe there's something to this book that I'm missing...but I've tried reading it several times and hated it. I got to the part with the guy obsessed with bananas... maybe 50-70 pages in. It's dull. And written in a very stylized manner that I'm sure you just absolutely love if you love it. I don't. It's also extremely masculine. I get it; it's war. But I love and enjoy Hemingway and Steinbeck and other masculine (even verging on misogynistic, Hemingway) writers who write about war and change and hardship. This...not so much.