Johnny Got His Gun
This was no ordinary war. This was a war to make the world safe for democracy. And if democracy was made safe, then nothing else mattered--not the millions of dead bodies, nor the thousands of ruined lives... This is no ordinary novel. This is a novel that never takes the easy way out: it is shocking, violent, terrifying, horrible, uncompromising, brutal, remorseless and gruesome... but so is war. --Publisher.
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- Let me add Johnny Got His Gun to the surprisingly large number of works that seem to anticipate exactly this premise.
- As a teenager (30 years ago), I found this book to be a bit of a mindfuck.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Got_His_Gun
I have heard of most on this list for obvious reasons but this book really got me to see war in a different light.
- Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo had a big impact on me when I read it recently. I wouldn't call it horror, but it's a disturbing and yet compelling read.
- Here's the website directly: http://www.2arms1head.com/
Thread for anyone who's interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21729056
Very similar topic, also recommended: Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo.
Honorable mention: The Water Knife (Paolo Bacigalupi).* Johnny Got His Gun, by Dalton Trumbo. Powerful anti-war story. * Vagabonding, by Rolf Potts. Shaped my views on hard work and travel. * 1984, by George Orwell. Brilliant and terrifying. * The Power of Now, by Eckhart Tolle. Overcoming mental pain through consciousness. * Planetwalker, by John Francis. Inspired me to walk and put myself into things more. * Pure enjoyment: Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson), Ready Player One (Ernest Cline), Watchmen (Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons), Red Rising trilogy (Pierce Brown).- That reminds me to the novel "Johnny got his gun". Highly recomended
