Thursday, March 15, 2007
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a boy soldier
You'll have to excuse me. Ishmael Beah has been courageous enough to allow me to crawl into a tiny portion of his mind and the experience has taken me away for some time. The book is outstanding and should NEVER...are you listening teachers & administrators?...NEVER be used in a classroom setting because it will be bastardized and ruined. This book should be read much like Sebastian read his book The Never Ending Story; alone, in order to experience every emotion written by this unique author who has painfully shared his life through what must have been excruciating eternities of cathartic scripting. As I devoured the pages I was often reminded of my gang kids in the juvenile detention centers who came in still at war with the gang members they were taught to cut, maim or kill. War is hell whether it's "over there" or here in our own backyards.
Thank Mr. Ishmael Beah for bleeding so many times in order to make your readers a part of your history. No other book says more about the horrors of war than yours and I am grateful for your willingness to share your candor through the agony of prose. Sublime is you!
Thank Mr. Ishmael Beah for bleeding so many times in order to make your readers a part of your history. No other book says more about the horrors of war than yours and I am grateful for your willingness to share your candor through the agony of prose. Sublime is you!
# posted by Bite Me Kissimmee @ 6:49 PM 
