The Red Badge of Courage

Two stars is generous. It was ponderous and boring. I have read much better descriptions of battlefields in other books whose authors had actually experienced the war (John Esten Cooke and Cyrus Townsend Brady would be two examples off the top of my head). This might have worked much better if it were half the size.
The only reason it got two stars instead of one is because I did actually finish it and have not yet recycled it.