Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
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 | Product Details: Hardcover 390 pages Release Date: 12 June 2007 Publisher: Little, Brown and Company ISBN: 0316067598 Rating:   Sales Rank: 1701 | | Look for similar books by subject: | | Customers who bought this item also bought:
| | Customer Reviews: drama is good but everything else is horrible... (07 March 2010)luttrell and his team deserve all of the accolades and honor for their service. their story is admirable. luttrell's book, however, is not worth the read. instead of focusing on the ordeal -- a drama that would easily be engaging by itself -- he devotes much of the book for uneducated and ignorant rants about liberals, the media, religion, politics and people who never served. there are few books to which i regret the lost time spent reading and this is one of them. 4th Grade Writing Style (04 March 2010)I have enjoyed books about Special Forces in the past and admire the men who have made it to this level. I was really looking forward to a good read about an admittedly amazing mission in Afghanistan. After 50 pages my gag reflex was working at full strength. Do you really have to mention every other sentence how big, bad, and tough you are. I'll give this terrible author a hint that any screenwriter or decent action author knows. People are going to be impressed by describing in detail what the heroes do and letting us supply the admiration. You don't have to constantly tell the reader what to think. This book is the worst example of writing down to an audience that I have read in a long time. Another major fault is the constant repetition. At one point within the space of 6 or 7 paragraphs the Taliban were described with almost exactly the same adjectives 3 different times. I think the author thought he was being paid by the word. I could go on, but the basic idea is that the book is very poorly written. I don't know how anyone above a 4th grade reading level slogs through this mess. I'm sure its a great story. Maybe someone could make a movie out of it. It would be one of the few times that the movie would have to be better than the book. This is one of the best books I ever read... (28 February 2010)I read this book when it came out and found it to be completely riveting. Regardless of your position on the war in Afghanistan or global politics, you will appreciate the courage and honor of these guys. I am sharing my copy of the book with friends and they are all blown away by the story... This needs to be a motion picture! Four SEALs and a Shale Hillside Swarming with Taliban (24 February 2010)You will not put this book down. Buy it. Read it. Then appreciate what others have done for your freedom. The book details the harrowing firefight of a 4-man SEAL team during a mission to kill or capture Ahmad Shah in Kunar Province. Politics Should Not Intrude (24 February 2010)This is an engaging account of Navy Seal Training and of the Tragic end to a Special Forces Mission in Afghanistan. However, anyone who buys into the author's simplistic political diatribe should be very, very careful. Below are some of the discrepancies raised by the Father of the Seal Team Leader- Michael Murphy killed during the Mission described in the book. ****It's impossible to know if Mr. Luttrell, as the only American survivor of the attack, got his account right, but based on his knowledge of his son, Mr. Murphy contends that several things are wrong. First, he says, as commanding officer, his son would not have relied on a vote. He might poll his men to get a sense of their feelings. He might let them think they were making the call, as long as they agreed with the decision he intended to make. Mr. Murphy said his son, who loved history, admired how Abraham Lincoln would pose a problem to his cabinet and let them think they were deciding, when he was actually guiding them to the answer he wanted. "Michael and I had long talks about this," Mr. Murphy said. Second, he said, he never heard Michael use the term liberal media, nor did Michael think that way. From Mr. Murphy's years as a prosecutor, he has many journalist friends. "Michael knew and liked them," he said. And third, he said, his son would never have seriously considered killing noncombatants. "He wouldn't be able to live with himself," Mr. Murphy said. "Michael's view was there are more good people in this world than bad, and he gave people the benefit of the doubt. He was definitely not going to kill a 14-year-old boy who would have reminded him of his brother." Mr. Murphy said that "even knowing the outcome" he was proud that his son let the herders go.**** Seems as though the author may have "spun" his account to fit a particular political viewpoint and in the process wrote a book full of red meat for ideologue partisans. | |
