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Book Review of Johnny Got His Gun

Johnny Got His Gun
Johnny Got His Gun
Author: Dalton Trumbo
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Teen & Young Adult
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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Helpful Score: 1


My favorite book that I have read so far this year (2009) and will most likely remain so. Both horrifying and stunningly beautiful, heart-breaking, claustrophobic, harrowing, and tragic beyond any words, etc, etc, etc. The depths this book reaches are incredible. This book is Truth. It will frighten you. It will force you to have to look at things in yourself and the world around you, you may not want to look at. I don't know maybe I'm just trying to sound like I'm some little book reviewer, blah blah blah blah blah blah. I do know though that this book has effected me to the point of feeling irreversibly haunted. Because there are people living like the main character in this book, right now, right this second in this country and all over the world. How can any of us sleep at night?