Somehow, I think that this would be an even more powerful book without the last speech from Joe. The message is unmistakable anyway, and leaving people to think about it on their own would have made them turn it over longer, and take it more and more to heart. Probably ending a book without a clear ...
Read this in my late teens, back in the counterculture days—the days of Vietnam. Draft age, at the time and was already convinced I didn't want to go to war. This book made the horrors of war abundantly clear. There's no glory in war for the soldier, regardless of the cause, God and Country, duty...
Ah, hell. Thanks a lot, El. When am I supposed to fit this in? Also, is this going to be more or less boring than The Diving Bell and the Butterfly? Maybe they would make a nice pair. I could make a shelf for "Books in which the author certainly ain't doing shit." I could put A Confederacy of Dunces...
One of my favorites. A human torso with no face recalling his life from a hospital bed and trying to communicate with the staff using Morse code. A depressing, maddening story, such are the perils of war.
I read this book in high school. The character and his story are burned in my memory forever. Powerful, powerful book. The crushing exposure of the war machine's impact on the human spirit is comparable to Orwell's 1984.
Infinite Jest has beaten me, again. Instead, I picked this up. The new edition I got has a new Foreword by a woman named CarolCindy Sheehan, who lost her son Casey in Iraq in 2004. This is on top of the old new Foreword by Ron Kovic -- does that name ring a bell? It should, if you are a reader of...
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