Chungledown Bim reviewed Generation Kill by Evan Wright
Review of 'Generation Kill' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
It's cute... I mean, there may be some basis in truth but as a rational human being I come to the conclusion that the author drank the kool-aid and went from bisexual Rolling Stone writer to flag-waving proponent of the worlds most bastardized military organization. Goddamn autocorrect. Or maybe he did whatever he thought would sell some dead trees.
Sell it does, turning the words from a series of short-form magazine articles to a hasty book to a television series for HBO- which was fucking epic, by the way. Can you say Skarsgard? Zowie.
I still wonder, though, what this book was supposed to be. The characters are huge, all loveable, all backgrounds thoroughly set, and all a little bit too much. The situations are all very black and white, set against our loveable (yet occasionally misunderstood) characters, and everything turns out ok in the end. Well, a few not-so-ok …
It's cute... I mean, there may be some basis in truth but as a rational human being I come to the conclusion that the author drank the kool-aid and went from bisexual Rolling Stone writer to flag-waving proponent of the worlds most bastardized military organization. Goddamn autocorrect. Or maybe he did whatever he thought would sell some dead trees.
Sell it does, turning the words from a series of short-form magazine articles to a hasty book to a television series for HBO- which was fucking epic, by the way. Can you say Skarsgard? Zowie.
I still wonder, though, what this book was supposed to be. The characters are huge, all loveable, all backgrounds thoroughly set, and all a little bit too much. The situations are all very black and white, set against our loveable (yet occasionally misunderstood) characters, and everything turns out ok in the end. Well, a few not-so-ok endings are stitched in afterwards, just in case one suspends disbelief for a bit. Ahem.
Cynical mocking aside, I loved it. Really. After I started to treat it as a novel it was utterly grand. Think of it as a WWII pilot adventure and all will be well. --A rollicking tale of salty characters doing unlikely things as part of a war you'll never understand let alone connect with.
