Raphael's review
Jarhead
by Anthony Swofford
Raphael's review
Jarhead by Anthony Swofford
Raphael's review
rating:
Well, this book is a honest, brutal look at an American Marine's life during the Gulf war of the early 1990's in Kuwait. It details the daily existence - the trials, physical, psychological and spiritual of an average Marine in training and eventually in combat. The author wrote this book with the intention of giving a window into the world of the marines - but it is much more than that. It details the struggles which this soldier has internally - this makes the book powerful and worth reading. Not the nicest topic but it rings with authenticity and clarity. This book is not an easy one to digest - it takes awhile to process. Oh, I understand that it has been rewritten and released as a Hollywood movie (I haven't seen it yet.) but, I don't know how they would deal with the "theatre of the mind" in a Hollywood blockbuster without it getting too patriotic, sentimental, or anti-military.