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| Title | : | Johnny Got His Gun |
| Author | : | Dalton Trumbo |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 309 pages |
| Published | : | August 1st 2000 by Citadel (first published 1939) |
| Categories | : | Economics. Philosophy. Politics. Nonfiction. History. Classics. Sociology |
Dalton Trumbo
Paperback | Pages: 309 pages Rating: 4.18 | 33135 Users | 2165 Reviews
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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 shocking, violent, terrifying, horrible, uncompromising, brutal, remorseless and gruesome... but so is war.
Winner of the National Book Award.
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| Original Title: | Johnny Got His Gun |
| ISBN: | 0806512814 (ISBN13: 9780806512815) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Joe Bonham |
| Literary Awards: | National Book Award for Most Original Book (1939) |
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Ratings: 4.18 From 33135 Users | 2165 ReviewsAppraise Containing Books Johnny Got His Gun
Two days after Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Johnny Got His Gun, one of the greatest anti-war novels ever, was first published. And when I think beyond WW2, and beyond Vietnam, right up to more recent wars and those who have been blown to bits, or living with without limbs, from serving in places like Afghanistan and Iraq, along with the latest casualty of war out there somewhere right now, then this novel is depressingly timely, and probably always will be. Because let's face it, when are weEvery time I read a book, I feel committed to it as if to a relationship. That relationship can be an infatuational fling, a carnal attraction, a passionate love, a committed best friend, a life partner...whatever form it takes will depend on how much I will remember it. Johnny Got His Gun got completely under my skin.I was finishing the last page on an airplane and an 80 year old yoga teacher looked at me and quietly summed up this book. "I remember reading that. It blew my mind..." She had
Johnny rips its own heart out and throws it in your face. It's a nightmare. A freak show. It's claustrophobic and uncomfortable. It's so fucking necessary.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM8bTd...
A scathing anti-war novel, in which the main character is one of the profoundly, hopelessly wounded, the human wrecks of war. It is told in the first person, by the voice of a person now voiceless, trapped in his mutilated body, confined to his hospital bed, and--as this person virtually unable to communicate communicates with the reader, telling us his story--we come to realize the true cost--and futility--of war.This is an angry, honest book. Thoroughly memorable.
If you want to read a really good book about WW I - why young people decided to sign up for it, what it was like at the front, and what the war did to people - read Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, because Trumbo will tell you pretty much nothing about it. Honestly, I am pretty astounded that so many reviewers describe Trumbo's tale as a story about the atrocities of war, because it talks about the protagonist's life before the war (mainly about his family, friends, and girlfriend) and
When I started reading this I thought it would be a cool little book written by a cool anti-war american screenwriter who liked to write in his bathtub with a drink and a cigar. It would be a bit macho, full of robust sentences and I'd be properly disgusted by all the bloody descriptions.And I was wrong. How can a man write a book whose narrator is a young guy with no arms, no legs, no face, blind and deaf and who is in and out of consciousness, never reliable, who spends his endless dark hours
Joe Bonham is dead though he lives. Hes stuck in a womb-like purgatory created by war. After being savagely injured by an artillery blast, he becomes prisoner to his own ruminations and broken body. His vivid consciousness stream illustrates fond memories, dreams, and present day, at times not quite sure if hes sleeping or awake. I often read through tears, my heart only able to take a couple of chapters at a time. Absolutely brilliant.PS. If you arent already aware, Metallicas brilliant
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