Johnny Got His Gun

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Summary: A review of the book "Johnny Gor His Gun"
Review: Meet the All-American man, Joe. He was raised like any other American boy born in the early 20th century. He has friends, a girlfriend, and two adoring parents. All of that changes when Joe enters the war and comes out less than the man he was, literally. Enter Joe's mind as he plummets into the heart of his own hell as he realizes the disfigurement an All-American can suffer in war not his own. Dalton Trumbo's "Johnny Got His Gun" brings a rollercoaster of feelings and images as Joe deals with his new being in life. Using as amazing style of run on sentences and repetativeness, Dalton encaptures the reader and sets them into Joe's shoes. "Merry christmas merry christmas merry christmas...He nodded back at her frantically...merry christmas to you merry christmas oh merry merry christmas. He thought to himself with a kind of hysterical happiness four years maybe five maybe six years I don't know how many years but I've been alone through all of them. He thought all my good work is gone all my way of keeping time has been forgotten but I don't care I am no longer alone." Armed with a bit of dark humor and aimed at educating readers of the causulities of war, Dalton Trumbo's American war classic asks why do we need to go to war? A question each reader must then answer for himself.

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Summary: A MUST READ!!!!!!!!!!
Review: I'm usually not one to pick up a classic, but my dad recomended it, and it caught my interest. It's about this guy who wakes up in a hospital bed and slowly begins to realize he has no arms, legs, face...he's blind and deaf, and he can't talk, cuz he was in a war. I started reading it the minute I got it. It captures you from the first page! I read it in just under a day, cuz I could never put it down. I'm 15 year old and I say it's one of the greatest books I've ever read. It's amazing. You go through all the emotions while reading it. One minute u may be laughing, the next, near tears. It is totally breath-taking, and I recomend it to everyone I meet. READ IT! YOU'LL AGREE!!!

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Summary: It is one of the most thought-provoking anti- war novels !
Review: Teaching this novel in high school English has for years been such a rewarding experience. It always inspires a love of the written language and a new look at the cost of saving our freedom. Regardless of the type of student, everyone that reads this (and this one they do read) gains an appreciation of what men like Joe Bonham have gone through. It is a study of the mind and the soul as it searches to define reality from fiction. A powerful work and well worth the time to read!

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Summary: A book that changed my life.
Review: I first read this book when I was in high school, and I'm a different person for having read it. No book had a bigger impact on making me who I am today. Read it, then give it to your children before they turn 18.

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Summary: The most touching book I have ever read
Review: I have never read a book that has ever moved and affected me so much. Thank you, Mr. Trumbo, for adding a piece of culture to my life that would have been missing had I not read your sophisticated, touching book.

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Summary: powerful
Review: i just finished reading this book and in my opinion is one of the most powerful books i have read or will ever read in my life. it brought tears to my eyes at times, because he was so alone and couldnt do a goddamn thing about it. makes ya think about the things you have and take for granted and believe me it pisses you off cause it makes you feel guilty. i highly recommend this book, a very very good read.

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Summary: The Brutal yet sometimes ignored truth
Review: I am a high school student who read this book for English Lit over the summer. While many of my peers remained cynincal and naive to what the true message Trumbo's is trying to display, (it was boring, where are the comma's?, it didn't make sense, etc.) after heavy class discussion we developed a great appreciation and enlightenment about the brutal yet covered up truths about War. WW1 was not a glourious war. Nothing is glourious about living while dead. There is no glory in the fate of the central character. Through sarcasm and symbolizm this novel, conveys a message about war that all must receive.

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Summary: A horrifying view of what going to war can result in.
Review: I've read this book once and will remember it until the day I die. Perhaps if every human being on the face of the earth read it, they would close their eyes and think for one moment about the consequences of a decision to go off to war and subsequently pick up a gun against their brothers and sisters, not to mention what they may possibly do to the rest of their OWN precious lives.

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Summary: Johnny and metallica = "one"
Review: i have read the book "johnny got his gun" and i would like to commento on a few things. 1st i noticed Trumbo's lack of commas and other things. 2nd i would like to note that in the video for the Metallica song "ONE" clips from the movie appeared in the music video. This was a great and powerful book and i hope it lives on..

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Summary: PERHAPS THE ONLY TRUE MUST READ EVER PUBLISHED
Review: This book is gripping and incitful from the first line. I have yet to read anything else that has even come close to moving me as strong as this work did. I truely believe that if "Jonny Got His Gun" was requirred reading in high-school, future generations would have great trouble justifing acts of war or agression. Thus sparing themselves many needless engagements. If anything this book teaches that real reasons for war are few and very far between.