There are good war novels, and there are bad war novels. And occasionally, a well-intentioned reader like myself gets saddled with an excruciating mess like Never Too Old to Cry. This is a fictionalized memoir of D. G. McWilliams, a veteran of the 1st Marine Division, which fought in the Pacific Theater of the Second World War. McWilliams’ endeavor was to try to document the war from a very intimate perspective, primarily through the eyes of a small cadre of Marine recruits. Paramount among them […]
Whereby SEALs are complete badasses and the liberal media is almost as bad as the Taliban
At first, an admission: I’m starting my CBR run terribly late. I intend to catch up, and I just might. I’m a bulimic bibliophile, insomuch as I devour books in bingeing bursts, then go several months without reading much more than Buzzfeed listicles and back-of-the-can recipes. If I can sustain this binge for the next four months, I have a reasonable chance of hitting my target of 26. Lone Survivor is the war memoir of Marcus Luttrell, covering his training as a US Navy SEAL […]