I'm reading beasts of no nation right now and it is verrrrrrrrry unique. It's not the easiest book to love, but I think it's an important book and is truly spectacular if you get into it. The writing style is not easy to get used to; it's written from the perspective of a young kid forced into being a soldier in Africa, and it's told in his voice as if he's just learning English...so, as you can imagine, it's not the smoothest of reads. And of course the subject matter is brutal and gruesome and tough to read, but, like I said, an important work. I believe it won a couple of prestigious writing awards when it debuted, so it is a GOOD book...it just requires a little bit more from the reader than your average novel.
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I'm reading beasts of no nation right now and it is verrrrrrrrry unique. It's not the easiest book to love, but I think it's an important book and is truly spectacular if you get into it. The writing style is not easy to get used to; it's written from the perspective of a young kid forced into being a soldier in Africa, and it's told in his voice as if he's just learning English...so, as you can imagine, it's not the smoothest of reads. And of course the subject matter is brutal and gruesome and tough to read, but, like I said, an important work. I believe it won a couple of prestigious writing awards when it debuted, so it is a GOOD book...it just requires a little bit more from the reader than your average novel.
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