Jack Lewis (3)Reseñas
Autor de Nothing in Reserve: true stories, not war stories.
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All is fine for the sake of friendship but is very different to pay for a book that should be first written by someone with a modicum of talent and then professionally edited, both of which conditions this book fails to meet.
If you are still with me for the details. Only the first half of the book is about the author's deployment, and in it the stories follow only a very tenuous timeline, of his two teammates only one is described in some detail, and the same is valid for any other characters with only one other person appearing repeatedly in the narration.
After that you would read about the author redeployment, PTSD and a failing marriage. Honestly by this point I was so bored and annoyed with the book that I failed to feel any empathy for the guy. For some reason in these pages you are welcome to a constant description of the author's homemade furniture and some hints at things that he witnessed in Iraq and sound plenty interesting but that are not mentioned in the first half of the book.
The last quarter of this volume is an assorted collection of motorcycle and how getting old feels stories, all featuring some connection to the writer's new marriage. Again I have to complain about the limited narrative style, for example a motorcycle ride story multiple pages long is filled with plain descriptions of a motorcycle parts that sometimes span only the factory and model names and very simple descriptions of a meal or a, how original, sunset.
So all in all I can only describe this book as a waste of money and, what's worse, time.