Now, Generation Kill, on the other hand, well, I can take the hint people, I have bought the book. aHA! Then all efforts have been well spent. ;)
Seriously, it is so freaking awesome. It is now in my Top 5 Fav Non-Fiction books. And I'm a big non-fiction fan. I've only just finished it, and I want to read it again. Right up there with "Homicide: A Year On The Killing Streets" and "Conspiracy of Fools".
Okay, correction, love Stark Sands as Nate. I know where my real loyalties lie.
Yes, indeed. I can hardly believe I bought a book narrating years in the life of a conservative republican. Damn you Sark Sands! *fist of fuy* Well, I got it on sale for $5. But still!
I'm basically desperately in love with the men as they were for a few months of their lives, while living in squalor and peril. heh. No interest in their real, outside lives. The guys as depicted in the novel Generation Kill and the series likely bear little resemblance to the real people in their normal, daily existence -- Ray Person, especially, is supposed to bare little resemblance to his "Combat Self" (according to several individuals, not just himself). Boring! In my head, he is always a ranting freak. <3!
Weeks with almost no sleep, constant consumption of caffeine, and frequent bombardment with bullets and bombs kind of twist you into something else. Something stranger, something both better and worse. So the people to fic about aren't any more "real" than the public image of Brad Pitt and NSYNC. If I ever get off my ass and write some fic, it will totally ignore actual happenings and imagine post-combat shenanigans that fly wildly in the face of reality. And a non-shy Ray Persons. boo-yah!
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aHA! Then all efforts have been well spent. ;)
Seriously, it is so freaking awesome. It is now in my Top 5 Fav Non-Fiction books. And I'm a big non-fiction fan. I've only just finished it, and I want to read it again. Right up there with "Homicide: A Year On The Killing Streets" and "Conspiracy of Fools".
Okay, correction, love Stark Sands as Nate. I know where my real loyalties lie.
Yes, indeed. I can hardly believe I bought a book narrating years in the life of a conservative republican. Damn you Sark Sands! *fist of fuy* Well, I got it on sale for $5. But still!
I'm basically desperately in love with the men as they were for a few months of their lives, while living in squalor and peril. heh. No interest in their real, outside lives. The guys as depicted in the novel Generation Kill and the series likely bear little resemblance to the real people in their normal, daily existence -- Ray Person, especially, is supposed to bare little resemblance to his "Combat Self" (according to several individuals, not just himself). Boring! In my head, he is always a ranting freak. <3!
Weeks with almost no sleep, constant consumption of caffeine, and frequent bombardment with bullets and bombs kind of twist you into something else. Something stranger, something both better and worse. So the people to fic about aren't any more "real" than the public image of Brad Pitt and NSYNC. If I ever get off my ass and write some fic, it will totally ignore actual happenings and imagine post-combat shenanigans that fly wildly in the face of reality. And a non-shy Ray Persons. boo-yah!