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Reading online on my Wattpad app on Iphone. Already read it once before but I am re-reading it. Great fluid language.
I read this during studying for my MBA. I still have it and my son loves hearing me read about the mice that keep looking for their cheese.
The description of the war wounds suffered by this Vietnam veteran soldier are so grotesque. The scars and pain that remain with him emotionally and physically blur the ability for him to accept and be accepted as a person again in society after returning back to the states. Employment is hard to find but as a diner busboy and dishwasher he finds some peace in absorbing himself in his work, cigarette breaks and being spied on by a lonely girl that toys with him by having loud sex with her boy toys rooms away where he can hear her.
The best part of the book for me was the details and in depth analysis of the bonds of friendship under the strain of one friend's cowardice and another friend's tolerance. This book really resonated with me. The book reveals that although someone's character is flawed it can be resurrected by remorse and a regret. Very heart wrenching depictions of the characters suffering.
This book provides a glimpse into a world we can only imagine; Struggling to survive in a landscape of shrewd, underhanded, violent types taking advantage of homesteader families. The boy in the story invigorates the story for me with his desire to see what is happening and his eventual discovery of the nature of a person he so looks up to and considers emulating.
I enjoyed this book after reading it again for a second time about a year ago. I was much younger on the first read but I can really identify with the characters now and see how their loneliness, weaknesses and strengths combine to show in full detail how they make up any part of a community, the ability for leadership, perseverance, and humanity. I like to read about the characters as much as the story line. I like complex characters.
This is my all time favorite book. It reveals a prophetic talent on the part of Ray Bradbury. Very many things he has written in this book reflect how society is and how media & entertainment can control the masses.
This book was both disturbing and fascinating. I found it ironic how at the end of the book he is revealed as a weak, insecure man with no control which is almost the opposite of how he came across from the beginning of the book.
This book is really spiritual. It covers the life of a woman who commits her life to the service of the Lord and aspires to do so at a very young age. I found it easy to read and very touching at times.
This book was very good but very hard to follow. It reminded me of the bible with very many generations being represented over and over with similar names. The book is really chronological in the depiction of events but the flashback narrative is hard to distinguish sometimes from the flow of the characters lives and you wonder sometimes if some events are mere memories, daydreams or events that will happen later in the lives of the characters. Very long too.
I loved this book. It was filled with very graphic details and bold language. I love how the narrator takes you through the characters vivid moments in his reality to the harrowing pits of hallucination of near or total insanity. I really enjoy war books with this tempo.
I'd already read this book years ago. I have re-read it once before and am re-reading it now because it makes me laugh and so much of it is really common sense and well... true in my opinion.