trisa_slyne 's review for:

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah

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This isn't the kind of book one rates because it's not for entertainment. I won't critique his style or his story or what he did or didn't tell because that's not what this book was about. I wouldn't want to re-read because it was too sad. But this book was an interesting depiction of life during the war. Lots of walking. He skims over the years he was a soldier- which I totally understand. But I thought that would be the focus of the book- sort of a tell-all of the crimes he had been forced to commit. But it wasn't and I can respect that.