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Book Review of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
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I can't say how awesome this book is. I have read "memoirs" before and have always been bored really quickly and don't usually finish them. This one though I was entranced and he pulled me in. Be ready though there is a lot of killing and blood shed, but it is to be expected with what he had to go through. The descriptions of the places in Africa where he went while he was in the Army were awesome. He was 13 when he entered the Army...just imagine your entire childhood whisked away like that. The ending is a positive one though. If he ever writes another book, I will be first in line to get it. I highly recommend this one and i'm only parting with it so I can help spread his word.