A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier | Ishmael Beah

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier | Ishmael Beah | A Long Way Gone-- Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

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	A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Ishmael Beah Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007 - 240 pages average customer review:based on 410 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

My new friends have begun to suspect I haven?t told them the full story of my life.
?Why did you leave Sierra Leone??
?Because there is a war.?
?You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other??
?Yes, all the time.?
?Cool.?
I smile a little.
?You should tell us about it sometime.?
?Yes, sometime.?

This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them.

What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives. But until now, there has not been a first-person account from someone who came through this hell and survived.

In A Long Way Gone, Beah, now twenty-five years old, tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he?d been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. This is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty.

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Great Read!!!

A Definite page turner! Couldn't sleep till i was done reading it. So poignantly written. It made me take a look at myself and humanity! Thanks Ishmael but I wish he would have talked about how he adjusted in the US. All the same, a must read!

A Long Way Gone-- Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

A fascinating and well written account of a phenomenon few of us know much about. What an extraordinary young man.

A Long Way Gone

This was a very heart wrenching book. A recommend for everyone so people are made aware of the atrocities of war. Even thought you are made aware of the terrible situations you understand how people cope in how ever bizarre a manner.

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A Long Way Gone

This book has good description and is an 'easy read'. It had a very interesting story about a boy in Sierra Leone and what changes his life.

very good, but....

I was really interested in this book and thought it was very well written. I would have given it 5 stars, but it was very disappointing how Ishmael ended the book!

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