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Lädt ... Blood Makes the Grass Grow Green: A Year in the Desert with Team Americavon Johnny Rico
![]() Keine Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. A hilarious & horrifying look at the war on terror. I found this book in a Borders store in Vegas a couple years ago. I hated Vegas so much I needed to find a diversion. This book did the trick. BMtGGG is perhaps one of the most honest and funniest books about the US Military - and this particular war - that's yet been written. Rico admits up front that he's no hero. He is not. He is Everyman, trying to stay alive and also to beat the boredom of all those in-between times of the horror of war. The sin of Onan was never so funny as it is here. And there is plenty of "spilled seed" at these lonely Afghan outposts as soldiers dream of home and girls. I was reminded of similar stuff in Jarhead, Tony Swofford's memoir of the first Gulf War. I recognize that war is no laughing matter, but people are always funny, and the ludicrous FUBAR stuff perpetrated by the military as evidenced here is all too true to life. I know. I spent eight years in the army. Rico tells it the way it really is, and isn't afraid to poke fun at himself in the process. This is good stuff. What I look for in a war book is honesty. Not fake hero crap or self-aggrandizement or even "history"--I'm looking for an understanding, as a civilian and a woman, of what the hell is going on out there. And this book delivers. It's by turns darkly funny and unrelentingly obscene--and full of the details and thoughts I'm looking for. Who the hell are these kids who are going to return to us twitching when the fireworks go off and wishing they could kill somebody? There is real humanity here, and a sense how absurd and insane war zones are. (Also, just how fucked up the Army is... no surprise there.) Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Outrageous, hilarious, and absolutely candid, Blood Makes the Grass Grow Green is Johnny Rico’s firsthand account of fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, a memoir that also reveals the universal truths about the madness of war. No one would have picked Johnny Rico for a soldier. The son of an aging hippie father, Johnny was overeducated and hostile to all authority. But when 9/11 happened, the twenty-six-year-old probation officer dropped everything to become an “infantry combat killer.” But if he’d thought that serving his country would be the kind of authentic experience a reader of The Catcher in the Rye would love, he quickly realized he had another thing coming. In Afghanistan he found himself living a Lord of the Flies existence among soldiers who feared civilian life more than they feared the Taliban–guys like Private Cox, a musical prodigy busy “planning his future poverty,” and Private Mulbeck, who didn’t know precisely which country he was in. Life in a combat zone meant carnage and courage–but it also meant tedious hours standing guard, punctuated with thoughtful arguments about whether Bea Arthur was still alive. Utterly uncensored and full of dark wit, Blood Makes the Grass Grow Green is a poignant, frightening, and heartfelt view of life in this and every man’s army. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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This book is not for the easily offended. Language and subject matter is sure to bother those with tender sensibilities. (