I read that book when I was in Oman in 2002 and I loved it. I had already seen the movie, but the book was so much better, I thought (and that was because of context. There wasn't much in the movie and all I could really remember from the events was that they drug a soldier's body around.)
I am currently reading Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell. It's an account by the only survivor of a Navy SEAL team in Afghanistan. Once you get past the chest beating that SEALs inevitably do, it's very interesting. He has a few chapters about his SEAL training that I really liked and then he goes straight into the story of what happened.
And suddenly he's not beating his chest so much. (Don't get me wrong--if you just make it through SEAL training, you are an amazing person. And what he and his buddies went through--particularly the strength, courage, and valor his buddies showed while dying--is amazing. I just don't think a person should toot their own horn about something like that. That said, he only toots his own horn when it comes to the training and being a SEAL, not for what he did on the mission. I'll gladly toot that horn for him, though.)
I'm almost finished and it's a really good book. I got mad at work tonight every time officers interrupted my reading with radio traffic.
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Date: 2008-04-28 04:45 am (UTC)I am currently reading Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell. It's an account by the only survivor of a Navy SEAL team in Afghanistan. Once you get past the chest beating that SEALs inevitably do, it's very interesting. He has a few chapters about his SEAL training that I really liked and then he goes straight into the story of what happened.
And suddenly he's not beating his chest so much. (Don't get me wrong--if you just make it through SEAL training, you are an amazing person. And what he and his buddies went through--particularly the strength, courage, and valor his buddies showed while dying--is amazing. I just don't think a person should toot their own horn about something like that. That said, he only toots his own horn when it comes to the training and being a SEAL, not for what he did on the mission. I'll gladly toot that horn for him, though.)
I'm almost finished and it's a really good book. I got mad at work tonight every time officers interrupted my reading with radio traffic.