I’ve been slogging through The Good Soldier Švejk , a well-known World War I novel by Czech writer Jaroslav Hašek. This is a book that I’ve been wanting to read for years; I was supposed to read it for a class in college but never got around to it. I’m almost done now and the whole thing has been rather underwhelming. In fact, I might have just given up were it not for the amazing illustrations by Josef Lada: Švejk and some officers / Josef Lada My problem with the book might just come from the …