My book club group has been reading "The Forever War" by Dexter Filkins. When I first started reading this book I was surprised, the text seems to come out of a fiction book. The fact that this man is out in the middle of this war without training and without his own weapon is amazing to me. Could you imagine standing in the middle of an active war zone for research?
I have been enjoying reading this book because it gives a perspective on a story that is not known. Many people think they know all about the war in Iraq and some of the history about it but I like how this story gives a personal aspect to the people dealing with the war in their own towns and lives. At times when reading I still have to remind myself that this book is nonfiction because parts of it seems almost surreal and I think about how even though we are apart of war, we don't have an idea of what it is like living with the war on your doorstep.
I am really interested in your ideas about parts sounding like fiction and surreal simply because of the nature of the subject. Can you provide some examples of this?
ReplyDelete