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Johnny Got His Gun - Dalton Trumbo
Johnny Got His Gun
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This was no ordinary war. This was a war to make the world safe for democracy. And if democracy was made safe, then nothing else mattered—not the millions of dead bodies, nor the thousands of ruined lives...This is no ordinary novel. This is a novel that never takes the easy way out: it is ... show more
This was no ordinary war. This was a war to make the world safe for democracy. And if democracy was made safe, then nothing else mattered—not the millions of dead bodies, nor the thousands of ruined lives...This is no ordinary novel. This is a novel that never takes the easy way out: it is shocking, violent, terrifying, horrible, uncompromising, brutal, remorseless and gruesome...but so is war.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780553274325 (0553274325)
ASIN: 553274325
Publisher: Bantam Books
Pages no: 243
Edition language: English
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nente
nente rated it
4.0 Johnny Got His Gun
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 ...
MAS
MAS rated it
5.0 Johnny Got His Gun
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...
UNICORN PORN FOR ALL
UNICORN PORN FOR ALL rated it
0.0
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...
Postech
Postech rated it
0.0 Johnny Got His Gun
Probably one of the most creative yet depressing and scary books I've ever read.
elspeth's ephemeral musings
elspeth's ephemeral musings rated it
1.0
I had to read this in High School and just didnt enjoy it, too bleak and depressing.
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