![]() ![]() I do think Trumbo's depiction of soldiers as mindlessly buying into propaganda is reductive and somewhat insulting. I can see why this works as an antiwar text, but also why it might enrage those from a military background. This is interspersed with flashbacks to his life before he went to war, painting in a picture of how he came to be where he is. It is about an American soldier called Joe who awakes in a military hospital and begins to take inventory of his injuries, gradually learning the horrifying extent of what has happened to him. Tell us how much better a decent dead man feels than an indecent live one. But whose idea of decency? And decency for who? Speak up and tell us what decency is. ![]() ![]() And chapter 10 contains some of the most powerful writing I have ever read.Įverybody said America was fighting a war for the triumph of decency. It feels like screaming at the top of your lungs but no sound coming out. ![]() But not in the way Push was, or some of the other books on the list were. The people who voted on that list were right- this book is disturbing. I then went on to read Push (a truly horrific, revolting book that I cannot unsee for the life of me) and this one. What's noble about lying in the ground and rotting? What's noble about never seeing the sunshine again?Ī few weeks ago I was in a weird mood and decided to peruse a Goodreads list called The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written. If they talk about dying for principles that are bigger than life you say mister you're a liar. ![]()
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