Disturbing books: Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
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Title: Johnny Got His Gun | Author: Dalton Trumbo | Publisher: Pengiun Books | Pages: 251 | Publication date: 1938 | ISBN: 9780141189819 | Source: Gift
Content Warnings: Traumatic injuries
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This is going on my TBR. I recently read All Quiet on the Western Front, which was the first book published by someone who had actually served in WWI. There are parts of it that are also very disturbing, and at the same time beautifully written.
Read this years ago, and it never left me
I just finished this book. It was depressing, distressing, heart wrenching and absolutely gorgeously written. A beautiful work.
It really is. Every politician in power should be forced to read this book before they send their people off to die
It was the first book that I had to stop reading for a day or 2 before I went back to it.
I read this book years ago, because it was recommended in a reading guide, Horror: The Hundred Best Books (1988). I also read The Painted Bird because of that list - and although that book had an even more profound effect on me, it's safe to say that Johnny Got His Gun really hit me hard, emotionally. Some open weeping, and a general feeling of exhaustion, and being left spent by a reading experience. In the best way.
It's a perilous task, to recommend any books based on someone's reaction to Johnny Got His Gun, but I suppose I'll mention Pincher Martin by William Golding, and Briefing for a Descent into Hell by Doris Lessing.
Thanks, hadn't heard of either of those! The Painted Bird I had read and agree it's very impactful
Darkness imprisoning me
All that I see
Absolute horror
I cannot live
I cannot die
Trapped in myself
Body my holding cell
Landmine has taken my sight
Taken my speech
Taken my hearing
Taken my arms
Taken my legs
Taken my soul
Left me with life in hell
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I am planning to read this in January. I got inspired to read this book after watching the music video "One" by Metallica. I am also deeply interested in World War 1 and 2, and this book sounds so very interesting and disturbing. Thank you for the review.
I was a big Metallica fan, so I read this in high school after their song “One” came out. The video has clips from the film. Both changed me fundamentally. Definitely check out the video if you haven’t seen it.
Same I was in my freshman year of highschool when I found out one was based on this book and film but for me it was in 2016 it permanently changed me for the better
I read this when I was a kid and it had a huge impact on me but I’m thinking maybe it’s time for a reread. Thanks for this video
Wow I ADORED this book Olly, I'm so glad you feel the same!!!
So good!
Having read many books on the American Civil War, this book makes me shudder whenever I think about the thousands of soldiers with head wounds that weren't treatable by medicine at that time. They were simply laid out and left to die. Many soldiers recalled throwing what they thought were dead enemy soldiers into burial pits and seeing an arm or leg twitch-and getting buried alive.
We think about dead and wounded as statistics and numbers when in fact every single one of them underwent suffering within their own sphere that's bad enough for one person. It makes me question why a loving God allows so much pain and suffering.
I read Johnny got his gun in high school and then saw the movie when that came out. Both disturbing. And necessary.
I read this book in 1985 back in school, the English teacher we had was an older priest who was over in Vietnam during the war.
As we all read the book he patiently explained how this ‘story’ has happened and will happen in all wars to both sides. I’m sure he saw some horrible things over there.
It’s a very heavy read and many of us in the class were selling up in parts.
This book stuck with us all and I’m sure still has to this day.
Great review!
I've read this book and loved it! As a Metallica fan, I heard about it in reference to their song One. I believe they also bought the rights to the black and white movie. It's featured in their music video for the song. Does anyone else remember music videos? 😉
I remember that video. I rented it at a Block Buster; an old VHS copy that did not disappoint. I wonder how many copies were rented or purchased from the music video.
That’s why I read the book and saw the movie.
I had to read this in school. It’s fantastic!
I read this great book decades ago.
I’ve never forgotten the devastating ending.
I’ve recently dug it out of my bookshelves to give to my son.
Yeah that ending nearly killed me
I read this book earlier this year - it was something on my list for a long time. I enjoyed it, but was surprised how unusual the narrative style is. It reads like something written much later, like in the 1970s perhaps. It was probably a difficult read when it came out.
Yeah it's definitely quite an unusual, experimental style. But then I guess the surrealist movement was big in the 30s, and a lot of that still seems experimental and shocking today
The early '70s hit hard with anti-war movies based on 3 excellent novels: Johnny Got His Gun; Catch - 22; and Slaughterhouse Five.
Just finished it and I am not okay.
Not ready for it with all the darkness I've read this past month, but one day I'll be up for it. -MJ
It's worth reading, but definitely when you're prepared for it
I've got this on my Kindle and will start it tonight. Great review.
Today I listened to Metallica's "One", learned about the film, watched some clips of it and some reviews, and it was actually kinda disturbing and... terrifying, I dont know? Strangely enough, I've also read half of this book today and it seemed much... calmer and not-so-terrifying? When I've seen parts of the movie (y-know, the "Kill me" scene) I was like "Holy, it would be a nightmare to end up in such situation!" but then reading the book I was like "Nah, he can still think, feel touch of the nurses, remember old stuff, see dreams, so yeah, if I was him, I could at least play around with that". That's just me, kinda, imagining the worst turn of events and then trying to come up with at least some positive stuff.
Really like the "stream-of-consciousness" style of writing, probably cause I play too much visual novels.
(Talking about visual novels... Caught myself laughing over a stupid thought, that Johnny is basically all Katawa Shoujo girls put together: Emi (no legs) + Rin (no arms) + Shizune (deaf-mute) + Lilly (blind) + Hanako (disfigured face). If Johnny was an anime girl in Katawa, how would his route even look like? Guess I'll never know...)
"One" by Metalica
Thanks, i wanna read it. Ive had it in my hand at the bookstore and put it back.
Does anyone else think "Dalton Trumbo" sounds like something Donald Trump would come up with if he had to give a fake name?
Ha ha it does!
I read ten years ago. I thought was excellent. I’m doing a group read in January.
Ok, so Kirk Douglas has problematic connotations in his history and so probably does Otto Preminger if you look, but the two of them insisted on giving Trumbo credit for his work in Sparatacus and in Exodus and those two credits went quite a distance toward kicking tbe blocks out from under McCarthyism.
Trumbo wrote this book in the early 1970's as an anti-war book. How he wrote the story as an anti-war book may be disturbing for people, but there is more to how war effects people asside from PTSD. Trumbo showed this both in the book and the movie. He felt it was important to show it.
Trumbo wrote the book in 1939.
Haven't read it but will do at some point.
You should!
This book is excruciating
did Kim recommend this one to u? /j
For me it was Johnny Bored me to Tears, I read this right after All Quiet on the Western Front which blew this out of the water.
One by Metallica is based on this and is also superior imo.