No True Glory
By Bing West
Jake Gustafson. 2/14/16
"BAM"a bomb went off behind me as five humvees followed. This is just one example of what happens in No True Glory by Bing West. In this book it is pretty much a realistic view of the battle of the city of Fallujah in Iraq. It is in the view of American fighters thinking that the war would be quick and easy.However, after 4 American contractors were killed the war got heated. So in this book it shows the heated fight between the American and the Iraqi terriosists. So my opinion on the book is that it's boring, I know how can war be boring? Well I'll tell you. Pretty much there was too much build up to the actual fighting. I know that's how real war works and the author wants to make it as realistic as possible,but it just doesn't work out. The planning for what the soldiers do is at least a hundred pages. While the actual fighting might be 30 tops. I wanna read a book that's action filled not just people talking for the whole first half of the book. Another reason why the book is boring is the diction. The book uses war terms only people who are or were in war would understand. And those words come up a lot. So I usually have to stop reading and figure out what they're talking about. And that happens pretty constantly. I want reading to be easy not a hassle ,and that was what it was in this book. The final reason why this book was boring was the character development. The characters in this were really bad. The characters always seemed very monotone and the plot and idea of war was just carrying them along. So if I was to put these characters in a another book it wouldnt workout and be even more boring. The characters just seemed to be filler they really did nothing more but be there to have a character. I wouldn't recommend this book for anyone besides soldiers. Anyone else would be in the situation I am in. However I think soldiers would like it for the reasons I thought it was boring.So all in all I gibpve the book a 5.5 out of 10.
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