Is Generation Kill a good book?
925220
No not a good book and is not fairly honest.
910866
Actually it's about the mass murder of native Americans by early settlers. \n\nTurkey anyone?
1096449
This was a very enjoyable book, I first read it about 15 years ago.  It is semi-autobiographical in that the author is a pilot and the narrator of the book is a pilot who meets a man with an interesting insight into the human condition and who appears to be a messiah.\n\nThe book is full of memorable lines and makes the reader contemplate life and why we are here.  I definitely recommend it. \n\nThe following link has a number of quotes from the book.
226770
Pretty well written. Strong and to the point. Interesting parallels. A little generic but not badly done.\n\nHowever, yes, I did like it.
1039754
THE TIME TO KILL or AMERICAN HISTORY X
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Yes.\n\nTo Kill a Mockingbird is a 1960 novel by Harper Lee, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961. It was made into an Academy Award-winning motion picture starring Gregory Peck by director Robert Mulligan in 1962. A coming-of-age story, it is told from the point of view of Jean Louise "Scout" Finch, the young daughter of Atticus Finch, an educated lawyer in Maycomb, Alabama, a small town in the deep South of the United States. She is accompanied by her brother Jem and their mutual friend Dill.\n\nTruman Capote was a lifelong friend of childhood neighbor Lee, and allegedly was the inspiration for Dill's character in her best-seller. Capote frequently implied that he himself had written a considerable portion of her novel, and some have said he ghosted the entire novel. At least one person—Pearl Kazin Bell, an editor at Harper's— has gone on record as believing his assertions were true.\n\nThe title of the book is taken from Atticus's advice to his children about firing their air rifles at birds: "Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird". The blue jay is a very common bird, and is often perceived as a bully and a pest, whereas mockingbirds do nothing but "sing their hearts out for us". Metaphorically, several of the book's characters can be seen as "mockingbirds", attacked despite doing nothing but good. The mockingbird represents innocence, and to kill one is to metaphorically kill innocence. Note that the protagonists are also named after birds: Tom Robinson and the Finch family. However, "Finch" was also Lee's mother's maiden name.\n\nHarper Lee stated, "To get the ideas for the book I used recent events in my time like the Scottsboro Trials." (Harper Lee, Book Review, 1964)\n\nThe events of this book's publication and the following film are also subjects of the 2005 film Capote starring Phillip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote and Catherine Keener as Harper Lee. It is also an excellent film and will likely be considered in one category or another for an Academy Award.
504772
Since it is a story that has been told, adapted, and read by millions of people for hundreds of years, I would say that makes it "timeless."  It contains universal themes that are relevant to every generation and even across cultures.  Themes like family grudges, young people in love, love/relationships that are doomed from the start.
519224
i have read the book, and i thought that it was brilliant, as for the film it looks a bit dated now so i have not seen it, i think the reason why its so popular is that it was banned for so long and it caused a lot of hype.\n\nread the book, twice, it great
237473
check out the book "Deathing" by Anya Foos-Graber.
1086391
i think that it is funny how seriously people are taking it. it's a novel not a historical book. anyway the movie sucks if u read the book and liked it i would recomend not seeing th movie, the movie dosn't explain a lot of things and left me more confused about the plot than anything else.
1022340
Considered a classic, written well enough before 1984,  it was thought to be prophetic in it's day.\n\nIt used to be that no one was considered "educated" who didn't have opinions about this book! (Especially as that year was approaching.)\n\nOrwell gave new meaning to the term "Big Brother," and the term "Orwellian" is used even today to categorize methods of population and thought control used by today's education systems and governments that are similar to those  described in this book.\n\nAdvance warning ~1984~ has some  'scenes' that in those days were a bit risque for parochial school, as well as some violence.\n\nOverall, I consider it a 'must read.'  The report I was required to make for it in  h.s. literature earned the same grade for me in a college class with only a few modifications - so save your notes.
442037
Yes, very much so!! Everybody's caught up on Fight Club, but everything he's put out is genious. I (believe) I read all of his books...I just re-read Invisable monsters and I still need to get Haunted(?)
272886
Excellent, tragic book.\nI loved it, but it was really intense.  I have not read it again, as I usually do with a good book.
150582
Yes. The survivors have a web site. And there is 1 good book by a survivor. Do a search online.
935718
First of all, the book is not about penguins. I know the characters are penguins, but the book is about two men who raise a child. \n\nThe only people who are scared of this are people who feel the need to be overly PC, or people who have religious reservations about gay marriage. I understand that the book never directly speaks of gay marriage, but that is the way people interpret the book. \n\nI don't know what religious beliefs you may hold, but if one of your  most treasured and firmly held beliefs was threatend in the form of a childrens book, you may raise some eybrows.\n\n\nTha being said, the US needs to learn that times, people, and beliefs are changing.
876515
Whilst the Harry Potter series is a fantastic read and has 4 relatively good movies, I don't see how this fad could influence generations of people and young kids for 40 plus years. Does it spread the message of love and world peace? Sure it makes kids read again, a tough task at the best of times and worthy of note and just under a billion pounds but influencing several generations of people, musicians and the world? No, certainly not. For The Beatles it wasn't about the money, it was the message, and that message went world wide and has stayed there. I bet The Beatles sold more records than Potter books and though they are both worth millions, The Beatles will be remembered forever.
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Since the book just was released today (2/13), I don't think the list will be readily floating around online (Then nobody would have to buy it).  I would say to go check it out at Borders or Barnes & Noble.\n\nI hope to buy it within a week or so, and will let you know if anyone from GA is in there.