Dalton Trumbo
Paperback | Pages: 309 pages Rating: 4.18 | 33135 Users | 2165 Reviews
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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) |
Explanation In Favor Of Books Johnny Got His Gun
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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| Title | : | Johnny Got His Gun |
| Author | : | Dalton Trumbo |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 309 pages |
| Published | : | August 1st 2000 by Citadel (first published 1939) |
| Categories | : | Economics. Philosophy. Politics. Nonfiction. History. Classics. Sociology |
Rating Regarding Books Johnny Got His Gun
Ratings: 4.18 From 33135 Users | 2165 ReviewsAssess Regarding Books Johnny Got His Gun
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...Every 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
What do you call a guy with no arms and no legs in the water?Bob.What do you call a guy with no arms and no legs on a porch?Matt.What do you call a guy with no arms and no legs on skis?Skip.What do you call a novel about a guy who has no arms and no legs because he happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time? Johnny Got His Gun.***This works best as a character sketch. As poor Jon Bonham's consciousness recalls the events of his childhood, he simultaneously realizes he has missing
Author Dalton Trumbo was inspired by a newspaper story about a Canadian soldier in World War I who had lost all his limbs and all his senses except for the sense of touch. He created Joe Bonham, a soldier whose mind was still active, but who was unable to communicate with the outside world except for tapping his head. The story takes us inside Joe's head to his stream of consciousness thoughts, sometimes thinking about ideologies and often flashing back to the past. For example, his thoughts go
I am profoundly grateful that my failure of imagination spared me from the full harrowing horror of this story, an act of merciful self protection. The main character wakes up in a hospital and begins to slowly understand the hideous nature of his wounds. utterly isolated he seeks to make sense of his life and undertake increasingly desperate measures to interact with his world. Starting this book I knew via a Metallica video (thank you MTV) that it was an anti war novel. What surprised me was
I simply have to read this book. It, including its author, has been cussed by Ann Coulter on her latest blog post. That is recommendation enough for me!***Devastating read! Review coming.***Detailed ReviewThis must be the most disturbing war novel that I have read if not the most disturbing novel EVER. The reader is forced by the author to spend the whole length of time he reads this book inside the head of his protagonist. Why? Because the protagonist is an injured soldier, who has lost his
Unforgettable: one of the most original, clever and powerful novels Ive ever readJohnny Got His Gun was first published on 3 September 1939, two days after Germany invaded Poland, and is about a 20-year-old American infantryman Joe Bonham who suffers a direct hit from a German shell in the last days of the Great War. Unsurprisingly, its powerful anti-war message also had a profound effect on Americans during the Vietnam era.Dalton Trumbo conveys this anti-war message across 20 short chapters,
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