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Cargando... The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Followspor Brian Castner
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. A riveting tale of an explosive ordinance disposal officer that is more like two memoirs blended into one harrowing narrative. Castner skillfully recounts the horrors of war during his mission in Iraq. Woven into this tale is his excruciating transition back to civilian life -- and his struggles with crippling psychological hurdles. Folks who enjoy a neat-and-tidy story line might be rattled a bit by the back-and-forth structure. But it works. An added benefit of listening to the audiobook is hearing Castner narrate his powerful saga. ( ) The author describes his struggle adjusting to life after serving tours in Iraq working as a bomb disposal technician. The narrative flips back and forth in time, from yoga class to detonating bombs, from morning jogs in the suburbs to discovering a severed foot in a box after an explosion. Honest, intense, and harrowing. Hard to review... on the good side I can say that Brian Castner is a good narrator for audiobooks. He's clear and easy to listen to... I guess since he wrote the book he also gave a really good feel for the emotion of the book. Oh the just so-so side, this book was really... so-so... in fact it ended so abruptly that I thought the audio had skipped. No... turns out his "crazy" was just that he was... uh... just a human? and everything was all OK? I mean, I get it, he's written an emotional story about how being a soldier in the middle east impacted him... how being an EOD employee was scary, always on edge, and became mind-game inducing mess... but the story had no value other than to be a sort of "expanded diary". I'm glad for Brian that writing out his "crazy" helped him become not so crazy but as far as war stories go... so-so and that's about it. It is a good story in that he's easy to listen to and you can understand his craziness. Maybe I just expected too much but this was just a long ... but interesting... diary. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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This work is a powerful account of war and homecoming. The author served three tours of duty in the Middle East, two of them as the commander of an Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit in Iraq. Days and nights he and his team, his brothers, would venture forth in heavily armed convoys from their Forward Operating Base to engage in the nerve-racking yet strangely exhilarating work of either disarming the deadly improvised explosive devices that had been discovered, or picking up the pieces when the alert came too late. They relied on an army of remote-controlled cameras and robots, but if that technology failed, a technician would have to don the eighty-pound Kevlar suit, take the long walk up to the bomb, and disarm it by hand. This lethal game of cat and mouse was, and continues to be, the real war within America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But this book is not just about battle itself. It is also an unflinching portrayal of the toll war exacts on the men and women who are fighting it. When the author returned home to his wife and family, he began a struggle with a no less insidious foe, an unshakable feeling of fear and confusion and survivor's guilt that he terms The Crazy. His book immerses the reader in two harrowing and simultaneous realities: the terror and excitement and camaraderie of combat, and the lonely battle against the enemy within, the haunting memories that will not fade, the survival instincts that will not switch off. After enduring what he has endured, can there ever again be such a thing as "normal"? No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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