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Stalin

by Edvard Radzinsky

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Derek said: " The author's purpose of Stalin is to entertain and inform. I think the author's purpose is to entertain. I think the author Edvard Radzinsky wanted to entertain the readers or Stalin because many people think it is very entertaining to learn about th ...more "

Oct 03, 2012 05:57PM · see review

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Ghosts of War: The True Story of a 19-Year-Old GI

by Ryan Smithson (Goodreads Author)

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Derek said: " The author's purpose of Ghost's of war is to entertain and inform. I think the author's purpose is to entertain because Ryan Smithson is the main character and the author. Since he is the author he is sharing his own life experences and entertaining The author's purpose of Ghost's of war is to entertain and inform. I think the author's purpose is to entertain because Ryan Smithson is the main character and the author. Since he is the author he is sharing his own life experences and entertaining the readers who read this book because he was there and no one can explain it to the reader better than the person that was there. I think another one of the authors purposes was to inform because he is letting all the young readers of this book know what the army is like and what it is like to go in combat. So overall the author's purposes were to inform and entertain.

The theme of this book is about the army and how a man can go through hard times on the opposite side of the world as his family. I know one of the themes of this book is about the army because he is a soldier and he is in war on the other side of the world and he goes through basic training and has stugles but pulls through all of it and ends up being an amazing soldier and representing the USA.

The style of the book was written in third person and the main setting is in Iraq in the two-thousands after 9/11. Since this book was written in third person I think it made it very descriptive and added some of the entertainment to the book. The author writing this book in third person made it more entertaining because writing it in third person made it more realistic and action packed, it make it more realistic because if the author who wrote the story about himself would've wrote this book in first person it would've made me feel like it didn't really happen. Since the story of this book took place in the two-thousands after 9/11 we can all relate to when it took place because we are here at this time and we always heard it on the news so since we all have heard about the Iraq war we can all relate to it.

My opinion on this book overall i would probably give it a ten out of ten if not a one-hundred out of one-hundred because I am really interested in the war and what happens during it. I think overall this book was really entertaining and very informing on the war because he talked about basic training and how you're taught and what you do when you enroll into the army. I disliked how there were so many abbreviations for code talk in the army because I see the abbreviations a lot and I can't ever remember what they mean and every time I see one multiple times in a row I have to go to the back of my book to see what it means. But other than that i think the book was an amazing read and I would recommend it to any of my friends who like the army and want to read a good book about it. ...more "

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"I'm done :)" — Oct 13, 2011 08:10PM

Oct 13, 2011 07:22PM · see review