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- Artikelzustand
- Artist
- Gallagher, Matt
- ISBN
- 9780306819674
- Book Title
- Kaboom : Embracing the Suck in a Savage Little War
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Hachette Books
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, History
- Topic
- Military / United States, Military / Iraq War (2003-2011), Military
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 16.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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When Lieutenant Matt Gallagher began his blog with the aim of keeping his family and friends apprised of his experiences, he didn't anticipate that it would resonate far beyond his intended audience. His subjects ranged from mission details to immortality, grim stories about Bon Jovi cassettes mistaken for IEDs, and the daily experiences of the Gravediggers-the code name for members of Gallagher's platoon. When the blog was shut down in June 2008 by the U.S. Army, there were more than twentyfive congressional inquiries regarding the matter as well as reports through the military grapevine that many high-ranking officials and officers at the Pentagon were disappointed that the blog had been ordered closed.Based on Gallagher's extraordinarily popular blog, Kaboom is "at turns hilarious, maddening, and terrifying," providing "raw and insightful snapshots of a conflict many Americans have lost interest in" ( Washington Post ). Like Anthony Swofford's Jarhead , Gallagher's Kaboom resonates with stoic detachment and timeless insight into a war that we are still trying to understand.
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Hachette Books
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0306819678
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9780306819674
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Book Title
Kaboom : Embracing the Suck in a Savage Little War
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Military / United States, Military / Iraq War (2003-2011), Military
Publication Year
2011
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Number of Pages
336 Pages
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Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
16.5 Oz
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Library Journal , 4/1/10 "[Gallagher's] exceptional narrative technique makes the soldier in-group cant both believable and coherent; his relentless pursuit of sanity in the midst of a chaotic storm of IEDs, policy changes, sheiks, civilians, and baffling missions makes this blog-based memoir an exciting read reminiscent of Anthony Swofford's Jarhead ." Zink magazine, April 2010 " Kaboom is nothing short of purely honest, unabashedly descriptive and unexpectedly humorous." St. Louis Post-Dispatch , 4/4/10 "An oddly fascinating account of the high points (and low points) of Gallagher's 15-month deployment... Kaboom will generate strong responses from readers.", New York Journal of Books , 8/20/10 "A first-person account of life where the IED hits the road. Gallagher's first command--a scout platoon--is a classic picture of soldiers drawn straight from the American underclass...They are flawlessly presented as the Joes of the Iraq and Afghan wars...Gallagher's men are rich in irony and political incorrectness." Washington Post, 8/28/10 "[A] half comic, half heart-breaking hour-by-hour account." Winston-Salem Journal "Gallagher is the voice of this war." Officer , 10/10 "Readable, often humorous...Convey[s] a sense of what the tip of the spear Soldier and his company grade leaders experienced on an Iraq deployment...For anyone wishing to get a genuine feel for recent deployment experiences of today's Army company grade officer, this book will go a long way in delivering a realistic and candid view...Get a copy and put it on your reading list." Reno Gazette-Journal , 10/10/10 "[A] gritty memoir about modern warfare in the Mideast." The Old Gold and Black (Wake Forest University), 10/18/10, Military Review , March/April 2011 "Insightful, colorful, and at times irreverent&An excellent snapshot of a junior officer embroiled in a counterinsurgency fight&An exceptionally engaging read." Entertainment Weekly Online , 4/7/11 "Simultaneously blisteringly funny and dead serious." , Military Review , March/April 2011 "Insightful, colorful, and at times irreverent...An excellent snapshot of a junior officer embroiled in a counterinsurgency fight...An exceptionally engaging read." Entertainment Weekly Online , 4/7/11 "Simultaneously blisteringly funny and dead serious." Smoke , April 2011 "A sardonic, unnerving, one-of-a-kind Iraq war memoir... Kaboom resonates with stoical detachment from and timeless insight into a war that we are still trying to understand." Cleveland Plain Dealer , 5/13/11 "Gallagher's writing is raw and uncensored, and also very good. In the midst of a war we're still struggling to understand, it's a privilege to understand very well at least one person's part in it." WomanAroundTown.com, 6/5/11 "Irreverent, terrifying, and very humorous, Gallagher's book will make some people angry, and will validate the suppositions of others." Bangkok Post (Thailand) , 8/14/11 "Gallagher's compelling work...offers the reader an unfiltered, brutally honest look into the life of a young lieutenant struggling to bring some semblance of security and stability to a very unsecure and unstable place." Portland Book Review , 9/17/11 "Gallagher's unbridled candor recounting his time in Iraq is shocking, frightening and at times, deals with the mundane rigors of army life, but is ultimately to be commended...A compelling read... Kaboom allows the reader to ride alongside an officer's day to day life in a war zone." SmallWarsJournal.com, 9/19/11 "Gallagher's Kaboom , simply stated, will likely be remembered as the quintessential memoir of his generation's combat experiences, particularly in Iraq. Not only does it successfully combine the finest authorial innovations of blogging with finest aspects of traditional memoir writing, but it easily and slyly avoids the traps of each as well. It is unabashedly self-centered and self-aware, but manages to sound anything but self-absorbed. It is full of pop culture references, clever writing, and the cynicism that accompanies his generation without sounding for a second like it is contrived or flimsy. In a word, his work is authentic, a rendering of wartime experiences that has been experienced by nearly his entire generation of warriors but has not been matched by his generation of writers...Mostly, though, this is just a beautifully written book that speaks for many who share Gallagher's experiences." Blogcritics.org, 2/13/12 "Gallagher pins down the modern-day experience of war and its maze of contradictions...A gutsy, keenly observed tale." New York Times , 12/25/14 "Radiate[s] a powerful you-are-there immediacy. Mr. Gallagher's book underscores his love of language, acquired as an avid reader, and his elastic voice as a writer--his ability to move effortlessly between the earnest and the irreverent, the thoughtful and the comic.", Military Review , March/April 2011 "Insightful, colorful, and at times irreverent&An excellent snapshot of a junior officer embroiled in a counterinsurgency fight&An exceptionally engaging read." Entertainment Weekly Online , 4/7/11 "Simultaneously blisteringly funny and dead serious." Smoke , April 2011 "A sardonic, unnerving, one-of-a-kind Iraq war memoir& Kaboom resonates with stoical detachment from and timeless insight into a war that we are still trying to understand." Cleveland Plain Dealer , 5/13/11 "Gallagher's writing is raw and uncensored, and also very good. In the midst of a war we're still struggling to understand, it's a privilege to understand very well at least one person's part in it." WomanAroundTown.com, 6/5/11 "Irreverent, terrifying, and very humorous, Gallagher's book will make some people angry, and will validate the suppositions of others." , Military Review , March/April 2011 "Insightful, colorful, and at times irreverent&An excellent snapshot of a junior officer embroiled in a counterinsurgency fight&An exceptionally engaging read." Entertainment Weekly Online , 4/7/11 "Simultaneously blisteringly funny and dead serious." Smoke , April 2011 "A sardonic, unnerving, one-of-a-kind Iraq war memoir& Kaboom resonates with stoical detachment from and timeless insight into a war that we are still trying to understand." Cleveland Plain Dealer , 5/13/11 "Gallagher's writing is raw and uncensored, and also very good. In the midst of a war we're still struggling to understand, it's a privilege to understand very well at least one person's part in it." WomanAroundTown.com, 6/5/11 "Irreverent, terrifying, and very humorous, Gallagher's book will make some people angry, and will validate the suppositions of others." Bangkok Post (Thailand) , 8/14/11 "Gallagher's compelling work&offers the reader an unfiltered, brutally honest look into the life of a young lieutenant struggling to bring some semblance of security and stability to a very unsecure and unstable place.", "Combines the stark reality of war with humor as Gallagher describes his daily activities."-- Syracuse Post-Standard, 11/1/16, "Gallagher is a phenomenal writer...He is so real in his writing. He does not hold back, which is why his story is so appealing. We want the truth, and Gallagher gives us nothing but...This war story is as real as you can get. Welcome to the history books Lieutenant." Nancy Pearl (via Twitter), 6/27/10 "Matt Gallagher's Kaboom --ironic, visceral, based on his well known blog about his experiences as an army lieutenant in Iraq." " Talk of the Town" (WTVF), 6/1/10 "If you want the inside soldier's view of the most recent Iraq War, read this first person account of Gallagher's 15 month deployment." Winston-Salem Journal , 7/25/10 "Gallagher is the voice of this war." Collected Miscellany, 6/15/10 "Gallagher does an excellent job of portraying the daily grind of counterinsurgency warfare...[His] writing style is free and easy to read. He does not write with a lot of military jargon...A must-read for anyone interested in reading a grunt officer's perspective on the counterinsurgency war in Iraq." Midwest Book Review , June 2010, "Gallagher is a phenomenal writer...He is so real in his writing. He does not hold back, which is why his story is so appealing. We want the truth, and Gallagher gives us nothing but...This war story is as real as you can get. Welcome to the history books Lieutenant." Nancy Pearl (via Twitter), 6/27/10 "Matt Gallagher's Kaboom --ironic, visceral, based on his well known blog about his experiences as an army lieutenant in Iraq." " Talk of the Town" (WTVF), 6/1/10 "If you want the inside soldier's view of the most recent Iraq War, read this first person account of Gallagher's 15 month deployment." Winston-Salem Journal , 7/25/10 "Gallagher is the voice of this war." Collected Miscellany, 6/15/10 "Gallagher does an excellent job of portraying the daily grind of counterinsurgency warfare...[His] writing style is free and easy to read. He does not write with a lot of military jargon...A must-read for anyone interested in reading a grunt officer's perspective on the counterinsurgency war in Iraq." Midwest Book Review , June 2010, Entertainment Weekly , 4/30/10 "as funny as it is harrowing." InternetReviewofBooks.com, April 2010 "[Gallagher] proves himself a gifted writer in this boots-on-the-ground report, with some of his prose echoing the scattershot riffs of Dylan without the guitar...[His] analysis of his situation, his troopers, the rear echelon, the high command, the profiteers, and the Iraqis (friend and foe) is insightful and candid...Gallagher simply gives a platoon leader's perspective of an ugly war that has cost our nation so much in so many ways. Perhaps it is best to think of the young lieutenant's memoir as one more paving stone for the road toward a fair historical assessment that our grandchildren may appreciate." Galveston Daily News , 4/18/10 "While the opening of the book borrows heavily from the blog, it doesn't simply regurgitate his blog postings. Gallagher adds material that puts his experiences in context and rewrote much of the rest. Unchanged is what made the blog so delightful--the irreverence of his words and the immediacy of what he experienced... Kaboom offers an intimate and poignant look at the rough men willing to do violence so good people can sleep peacefully in their beds--during a period that tested those men to their limits. It is well worth reading.", Military Review , March/April 2011 "Insightful, colorful, and at times irreverent…An excellent snapshot of a junior officer embroiled in a counterinsurgency fight…An exceptionally engaging read." Entertainment Weekly Online , 4/7/11 "Simultaneously blisteringly funny and dead serious." Smoke , April 2011 "A sardonic, unnerving, one-of-a-kind Iraq war memoir… Kaboom resonates with stoical detachment from and timeless insight into a war that we are still trying to understand." Cleveland Plain Dealer , 5/13/11 "Gallagher's writing is raw and uncensored, and also very good. In the midst of a war we're still struggling to understand, it's a privilege to understand very well at least one person's part in it." WomanAroundTown.com, 6/5/11 "Irreverent, terrifying, and very humorous, Gallagher's book will make some people angry, and will validate the suppositions of others." Bangkok Post (Thailand) , 8/14/11 "Gallagher's compelling work…offers the reader an unfiltered, brutally honest look into the life of a young lieutenant struggling to bring some semblance of security and stability to a very unsecure and unstable place." Portland Book Review , 9/17/11 "Gallagher's unbridled candor recounting his time in Iraq is shocking, frightening and at times, deals with the mundane rigors of army life, but is ultimately to be commended…A compelling read… Kaboom allows the reader to ride alongside an officer's day to day life in a war zone." SmallWarsJournal.com, 9/19/11 "Gallagher's Kaboom , simply stated, will likely be remembered as the quintessential memoir of his generation's combat experiences, particularly in Iraq. Not only does it successfully combine the finest authorial innovations of blogging with finest aspects of traditional memoir writing, but it easily and slyly avoids the traps of each as well. It is unabashedly self-centered and self-aware, but manages to sound anything but self-absorbed. It is full of pop culture references, clever writing, and the cynicism that accompanies his generation without sounding for a second like it is contrived or flimsy. In a word, his work is authentic, a rendering of wartime experiences that has been experienced by nearly his entire generation of warriors but has not been matched by his generation of writers…Mostly, though, this is just a beautifully written book that speaks for many who share Gallagher's experiences.", Military Review , March/April 2011 "Insightful, colorful, and at times irreverent&An excellent snapshot of a junior officer embroiled in a counterinsurgency fight&An exceptionally engaging read." Entertainment Weekly Online , 4/7/11 "Simultaneously blisteringly funny and dead serious." OnViolence.com, 4/7/11 " Kaboom is filled with banter, humorous nicknames and jokes&But this humor doesn't take away from the sadness of the whole thing. Gallagher has a keen literary eye and he picks up on the heart breaking details&One hell of a first book." Relaxed Fit E-Zine, 4/12/11 "[Gallagher] clearly understands the complex horrors of the War and the military ordered to fight it, and he clearly identifies with the soldiers at the pointed end." , Military Times , 5/24/10 " Kaboom is funny and profound, urbane and vulgar, witty and worthwhile...Photos with informative captions, and an index [are] the only pages in Kaboom without a sense of humor...As jaw-dropping, laugh-inducing and eye-opening as any life-threatening rollercoaster ride in a war zone." Sacramento Book Review , 5/26/10 "A candid look at counterinsurgency warfare...Gallagher's descriptions of daily interactions between his soldiers, civilians, sheiks, Iraqi army, and Iraqi police will keep most readers turning the pages. He conveys the terrible stress soldiers face in dangerous situations, while also communicating the marathon tedium of their daily lives...An excellent book for anyone interested in the observations, expectations, humor, and work ethic of the next generation of American leaders." St. Petersburg Times , 5/30/10 "A memoir by turns harrowing, hilarious and absurd.", "A soldier's account of the realities of war...No military library should be without this." Proceedings , August 2010 "Matt Gallagher's memoir is the finest I have yet read from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan...The genius of both the blog and the memoir is Gallagher's ability and willingness to accurately capture not just the fear and boredom of small-unit combat but also its hilarity...Laugh-out-loud dialogue...Gallagher's parting act of service is this book, which is as noteworthy for its adventurous and stylized prose as for the story it tells...As engaging a combat memoir as any I have ever read." Boston Globe , 8/10/10 "Provides a firsthand glimpse at the fog of modern war." , Military Review , March/April 2011 Insightful, colorful, and at times irreverent&An excellent snapshot of a junior officer embroiled in a counterinsurgency fight&An exceptionally engaging read. Entertainment Weekly Online , 4/7/11 Simultaneously blisteringly funny and dead serious. Smoke , April 2011 A sardonic, unnerving, one-of-a-kind Iraq war memoir& Kaboom resonates with stoical detachment from and timeless insight into a war that we are still trying to understand. Cleveland Plain Dealer , 5/13/11 Gallagher's writing is raw and uncensored, and also very good. In the midst of a war we're still struggling to understand, it's a privilege to understand very well at least one person's part in it. WomanAroundTown.com, 6/5/11 Irreverent, terrifying, and very humorous, Gallaghers book will make some people angry, and will validate the suppositions of others. Bangkok Post (Thailand) , 8/14/11 Gallaghers compelling work&offers the reader an unfiltered, brutally honest look into the life of a young lieutenant struggling to bring some semblance of security and stability to a very unsecure and unstable place., The New Republic , 6/11/10 "A vivid and introspective chronicle of Gallagher's fifteen months in Iraq...Its aim is simple: to explain what it is like to wage an unconventional war...Unlike a journalist, whose Heisenberg-like presence inevitably distorts, Gallagher is able to candidly depict the lighter moments of war...And Gallagher gives the book's characters...much more than the name-rank-hometown exposition that too often flattens soldiers in print...Evocative prose, convincing dialogue, and, especially, telling vignettes of life as an American soldier in Iraq." Tucson Citizen , 6/14/10 "[Gallagher] freely shares what it was like to face the ever-presence threat of snipers and roadside bombs. He debates the effectiveness of the overall military strategy of the latest surge and struggles to understand the big picture in a memoir that is honest, candid, and insightful." JulesCrittenden.com, 6/14/10 "Beautifully written, literary in its approach, and looks to be a good companion to [ Rage Company 's] more Spartan, unadorned take on the business end of surge operations and counterinsurgency." Kick Ass Book Reviews, 6/24/10, Military Review , March/April 2011 "Insightful, colorful, and at times irreverent&An excellent snapshot of a junior officer embroiled in a counterinsurgency fight&An exceptionally engaging read." Entertainment Weekly Online , 4/7/11 "Simultaneously blisteringly funny and dead serious." Smoke , April 2011 "A sardonic, unnerving, one-of-a-kind Iraq war memoir& Kaboom resonates with stoical detachment from and timeless insight into a war that we are still trying to understand." Cleveland Plain Dealer , 5/13/11 "Gallagher's writing is raw and uncensored, and also very good. In the midst of a war we're still struggling to understand, it's a privilege to understand very well at least one person's part in it.", Military Review , March/April 2011 "Insightful, colorful, and at times irreverent&An excellent snapshot of a junior officer embroiled in a counterinsurgency fight&An exceptionally engaging read.", Portland Book Review , 9/17/11 "Gallagher's unbridled candor recounting his time in Iraq is shocking, frightening and at times, deals with the mundane rigors of army life, but is ultimately to be commended...A compelling read... Kaboom allows the reader to ride alongside an officer's day to day life in a war zone." SmallWarsJournal.com, 9/19/11 "Gallagher's Kaboom , simply stated, will likely be remembered as the quintessential memoir of his generation's combat experiences, particularly in Iraq. Not only does it successfully combine the finest authorial innovations of blogging with finest aspects of traditional memoir writing, but it easily and slyly avoids the traps of each as well. It is unabashedly self-centered and self-aware, but manages to sound anything but self-absorbed. It is full of pop culture references, clever writing, and the cynicism that accompanies his generation without sounding for a second like it is contrived or flimsy. In a word, his work is authentic, a rendering of wartime experiences that has been experienced by nearly his entire generation of warriors but has not been matched by his generation of writers...Mostly, though, this is just a beautifully written book that speaks for many who share Gallagher's experiences.", Military Review , March/April 2011 "Insightful, colorful, and at times irreverent…An excellent snapshot of a junior officer embroiled in a counterinsurgency fight…An exceptionally engaging read." Entertainment Weekly Online , 4/7/11 "Simultaneously blisteringly funny and dead serious." Smoke , April 2011 "A sardonic, unnerving, one-of-a-kind Iraq war memoir… Kaboom resonates with stoical detachment from and timeless insight into a war that we are still trying to understand." Cleveland Plain Dealer , 5/13/11 "Gallagher's writing is raw and uncensored, and also very good. In the midst of a war we're still struggling to understand, it's a privilege to understand very well at least one person's part in it." WomanAroundTown.com, 6/5/11 "Irreverent, terrifying, and very humorous, Gallagher's book will make some people angry, and will validate the suppositions of others." Bangkok Post (Thailand) , 8/14/11 "Gallagher's compelling work…offers the reader an unfiltered, brutally honest look into the life of a young lieutenant struggling to bring some semblance of security and stability to a very unsecure and unstable place." Portland Book Review , 9/17/11 "Gallagher's unbridled candor recounting his time in Iraq is shocking, frightening and at times, deals with the mundane rigors of army life, but is ultimately to be commended…A compelling read… Kaboom allows the reader to ride alongside an officer's day to day life in a war zone." SmallWarsJournal.com, 9/19/11 "Gallagher's Kaboom , simply stated, will likely be remembered as the quintessential memoir of his generation's combat experiences, particularly in Iraq. Not only does it successfully combine the finest authorial innovations of blogging with finest aspects of traditional memoir writing, but it easily and slyly avoids the traps of each as well. It is unabashedly self-centered and self-aware, but manages to sound anything but self-absorbed. It is full of pop culture references, clever writing, and the cynicism that accompanies his generation without sounding for a second like it is contrived or flimsy. In a word, his work is authentic, a rendering of wartime experiences that has been experienced by nearly his entire generation of warriors but has not been matched by his generation of writers…Mostly, though, this is just a beautifully written book that speaks for many who share Gallagher's experiences." Blogcritics.org, 2/13/12 "Gallagher pins down the modern-day experience of war and its maze of contradictions…A gutsy, keenly observed tale.", Military Review , March/April 2011 "Insightful, colorful, and at times irreverent...An excellent snapshot of a junior officer embroiled in a counterinsurgency fight...An exceptionally engaging read." Entertainment Weekly Online , 4/7/11 "Simultaneously blisteringly funny and dead serious." Smoke , April 2011 "A sardonic, unnerving, one-of-a-kind Iraq war memoir... Kaboom resonates with stoical detachment from and timeless insight into a war that we are still trying to understand." Cleveland Plain Dealer , 5/13/11 "Gallagher's writing is raw and uncensored, and also very good. In the midst of a war we're still struggling to understand, it's a privilege to understand very well at least one person's part in it." WomanAroundTown.com, 6/5/11 "Irreverent, terrifying, and very humorous, Gallagher's book will make some people angry, and will validate the suppositions of others." Bangkok Post (Thailand) , 8/14/11 "Gallagher's compelling work...offers the reader an unfiltered, brutally honest look into the life of a young lieutenant struggling to bring some semblance of security and stability to a very unsecure and unstable place." Portland Book Review , 9/17/11 "Gallagher's unbridled candor recounting his time in Iraq is shocking, frightening and at times, deals with the mundane rigors of army life, but is ultimately to be commended...A compelling read... Kaboom allows the reader to ride alongside an officer's day to day life in a war zone." SmallWarsJournal.com, 9/19/11 "Gallagher's Kaboom , simply stated, will likely be remembered as the quintessential memoir of his generation's combat experiences, particularly in Iraq. Not only does it successfully combine the finest authorial innovations of blogging with finest aspects of traditional memoir writing, but it easily and slyly avoids the traps of each as well. It is unabashedly self-centered and self-aware, but manages to sound anything but self-absorbed. It is full of pop culture references, clever writing, and the cynicism that accompanies his generation without sounding for a second like it is contrived or flimsy. In a word, his work is authentic, a rendering of wartime experiences that has been experienced by nearly his entire generation of warriors but has not been matched by his generation of writers...Mostly, though, this is just a beautifully written book that speaks for many who share Gallagher's experiences." Blogcritics.org, 2/13/12 "Gallagher pins down the modern-day experience of war and its maze of contradictions...A gutsy, keenly observed tale.", New York Journal of Books , 8/20/10 "A first-person account of life where the IED hits the road. Gallagher's first command--a scout platoon--is a classic picture of soldiers drawn straight from the American underclass...They are flawlessly presented as the Joes of the Iraq and Afghan wars...Gallagher's men are rich in irony and political incorrectness." Washington Post, 8/28/10 "[A] half comic, half heart-breaking hour-by-hour account." Winston-Salem Journal "Gallagher is the voice of this war." Officer , 10/10 "Readable, often humorous...Convey[s] a sense of what the tip of the spear Soldier and his company grade leaders experienced on an Iraq deployment...For anyone wishing to get a genuine feel for recent deployment experiences of today's Army company grade officer, this book will go a long way in delivering a realistic and candid view...Get a copy and put it on your reading list." Reno Gazette-Journal , 10/10/10 "[A] gritty memoir about modern warfare in the Mideast." The Old Gold and Black (Wake Forest University), 10/18/10, Military Review , March/April 2011 "Insightful, colorful, and at times irreverent...An excellent snapshot of a junior officer embroiled in a counterinsurgency fight...An exceptionally engaging read." Entertainment Weekly Online , 4/7/11 "Simultaneously blisteringly funny and dead serious." Smoke , April 2011 "A sardonic, unnerving, one-of-a-kind Iraq war memoir... Kaboom resonates with stoical detachment from and timeless insight into a war that we are still trying to understand." Cleveland Plain Dealer , 5/13/11 "Gallagher's writing is raw and uncensored, and also very good. In the midst of a war we're still struggling to understand, it's a privilege to understand very well at least one person's part in it." WomanAroundTown.com, 6/5/11 "Irreverent, terrifying, and very humorous, Gallagher's book will make some people angry, and will validate the suppositions of others." Bangkok Post (Thailand) , 8/14/11 "Gallagher's compelling work...offers the reader an unfiltered, brutally honest look into the life of a young lieutenant struggling to bring some semblance of security and stability to a very unsecure and unstable place." , "A soldier's account of the realities of war...No military library should be without this." Proceedings , August 2010 "Matt Gallagher's memoir is the finest I have yet read from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan...The genius of both the blog and the memoir is Gallagher's ability and willingness to accurately capture not just the fear and boredom of small-unit combat but also its hilarity...Laugh-out-loud dialogue...Gallagher's parting act of service is this book, which is as noteworthy for its adventurous and stylized prose as for the story it tells...As engaging a combat memoir as any I have ever read." Boston Globe , 8/10/10 "Provides a firsthand glimpse at the fog of modern war.", Military Review , March/April 2011 "Insightful, colorful, and at times irreverent...An excellent snapshot of a junior officer embroiled in a counterinsurgency fight...An exceptionally engaging read." Entertainment Weekly Online , 4/7/11 "Simultaneously blisteringly funny and dead serious." Smoke , April 2011 "A sardonic, unnerving, one-of-a-kind Iraq war memoir... Kaboom resonates with stoical detachment from and timeless insight into a war that we are still trying to understand." Cleveland Plain Dealer , 5/13/11 "Gallagher's writing is raw and uncensored, and also very good. In the midst of a war we're still struggling to understand, it's a privilege to understand very well at least one person's part in it." WomanAroundTown.com, 6/5/11 "Irreverent, terrifying, and very humorous, Gallagher's book will make some people angry, and will validate the suppositions of others." Bangkok Post (Thailand) , 8/14/11 "Gallagher's compelling work...offers the reader an unfiltered, brutally honest look into the life of a young lieutenant struggling to bring some semblance of security and stability to a very unsecure and unstable place." Portland Book Review , 9/17/11 "Gallagher's unbridled candor recounting his time in Iraq is shocking, frightening and at times, deals with the mundane rigors of army life, but is ultimately to be commended...A compelling read... Kaboom allows the reader to ride alongside an officer's day to day life in a war zone." SmallWarsJournal.com, 9/19/11 "Gallagher's Kaboom , simply stated, will likely be remembered as the quintessential memoir of his generation's combat experiences, particularly in Iraq. Not only does it successfully combine the finest authorial innovations of blogging with finest aspects of traditional memoir writing, but it easily and slyly avoids the traps of each as well. It is unabashedly self-centered and self-aware, but manages to sound anything but self-absorbed. It is full of pop culture references, clever writing, and the cynicism that accompanies his generation without sounding for a second like it is contrived or flimsy. In a word, his work is authentic, a rendering of wartime experiences that has been experienced by nearly his entire generation of warriors but has not been matched by his generation of writers...Mostly, though, this is just a beautifully written book that speaks for many who share Gallagher's experiences." Blogcritics.org, 2/13/12 "Gallagher pins down the modern-day experience of war and its maze of contradictions...A gutsy, keenly observed tale." New York Times , 12/25/14 "Radiate[s] a powerful you-are-there immediacy. Mr. Gallagher's book underscores his love of language, acquired as an avid reader, and his elastic voice as a writer--his ability to move effortlessly between the earnest and the irreverent, the thoughtful and the comic." Library Journal , 12/31/15 "The moving, transformational journey of party "bro" Gallagher who turns compassionate lieutenant."
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