jakegreen 's review for:

The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
5.0

I read this book once a long time ago and I’ve just finished reading this book now. At no time during either read—nor at any point during the period between reads—have I regretted the choice. A remarkably creative book, with a curious blend of philosophy and gut-wrenching descriptions. One might never understand what the three most violent days in American history were truly like, but this novel certainly paints its own very detailed portrait of what it could have been. I am left with only a quote that struck me peculiarly as a line fit for a Killer Angel, the eponymous descriptor that defines all the book’s (very real) characters.

“The more you kill, the more you do the world a service.”