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Nez talks about how the spoken language is so important in Navajo culture, and Avila writes that all of these stories were told to her verbally. I can definitely see how a lot of these stories would have been more engaging hearing them told, rather than written down. The writing was very simple and straightforward, which I think is a product of how it was created, so I shouldn't fault it for that.
Overall, this book is billed as the experience of a code talker and there really wasn't much about the code in here. It is more a military memoir than anything. I will admit that I skimmed a lot of the chapters about his experiences in battle. It's very much not my thing and I wouldn't have finished if this wasn't for a book club. The small parts about how the code was developed, and the parts about his life growing up on the reservation and then learning to live in society after his service were more interesting, but still not enough to really draw me in.
Overall, this book is billed as the experience of a code talker and there really wasn't much about the code in here. It is more a military memoir than anything. I will admit that I skimmed a lot of the chapters about his experiences in battle. It's very much not my thing and I wouldn't have finished if this wasn't for a book club. The small parts about how the code was developed, and the parts about his life growing up on the reservation and then learning to live in society after his service were more interesting, but still not enough to really draw me in.