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4.0 out of 5 stars
too short but good,
By Sam Reeve (BC, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: War Slut (Paperback)
This book is super entertaining, and I loved almost everything about it. Only it was too short! I felt like it could have gone on a bit longer and would have been better.
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The War of the Future...,
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This review is from: War Slut (Paperback)
"In a future where everyone in the world has been drafted into the military, there is only one enemy left to fight... ourselves."Mellick is back with an explosive new novella about the military of the future. The war is over, but there is nothing left to do but fight. With this in mind, a group of military leaders send a small band of soldiers to the artic, where "draft dodgers" are believed to be hiding. Since there is no enemy army left to fight, the military must now focus on finding and killing draft dodgers. The soldiers find a city of ice occupied by fabric people filled with stuffing. What happens next is something they never bargained for. Can the soldiers escape alive? What will happen when they do? Who are these strange cloth people? This is a very entertaining book. Though it deals with an army, it does not get bogged down in military jargon and detailed military theory. By Mellick's admission at the start of the book, he knows nothing about the military. Instead, he says the book was written from the point of view of a nine-year-old playing with Gi-Joes on a snow day. Indeed it is. Don't miss this one, it is fast, funny, and it makes you think...
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The Futility of War, Freedom, and Love,
By Mark McKee Jr. "honesty is the only thing hum... - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: War Slut (Paperback)
I recently read two CM3 books back to back, Sea of Patchwork Cats and War Slut. Both had similar themes, the dominant being futility. In Patchwork, there was a futility in existence after everyone else on the planet committed suicide, while in War Slut the futility was in war and the reality of freedom. Both exhibited the futility of love. Overall, I found War Slut to be the better of the two.It tells the story of a regiment of soldiers being repositioned from Northern Africa to the Arctic to fight one of the last remaining battalions of draft dodgers, those who would dare go against the government policy that everyone - man, woman, and child - join the military. There is often a knee-jerk reaction to anything involving military within our present political and military climate and CM3 is quick to point that War Slut is a work of absurdism not reality. But underlying the absurd is a sly comment on the upper echelon at work in our country today. In typical Mellick fashion, the ending wraps everything up in a pretty Seinfeld-ian bow. Is freedom worth everything you have to give up to attain it? CM3 will make you wonder. 5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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A band of soldiers take a last stand in a strange ice city,
By Schtinky "Schtinky" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: War Slut (Paperback)
In an expedition into the frozen wastelands of the north, a tired troop of soldiers are gathered to hunt down the one remaining enemy to the all-encompassing military - Draft Dodgers. Creeping further north, they come upon what seems to be a whole city under the ice: cars and televisions, bookcases and football stadiums. Above it all are ice skyscrapers, but the only occupants are cotton stuffed mannequins with porcelain doll faces.The group is separated by enemy fire, scattered in attempting to discover the snipers until Hugh Jake (a soldier whose eyes constantly weep and suffers from narcolepsy) realizes it's the mannequins themselves that are attacking. Is this just a strange society, or is this what Draft Dodgers have become? And what's to become of the soldiers? Mellick is a master of the bizarre tales. This short novella is certainly odd but closer to readability for many who haven't yet sampled the truly macabre avant-punk, bizarro genre. As Mellick himself explains in his introduction, "This isn't about realism. Realism isn't my style. This is about the absurb." Enjoy! 4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Will the War of the Future Ever End?,
By Charles Glover - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: War Slut (Paperback)
"In a future where everyone in the world has been drafted into the military, there is only one enemy left to fight... ourselves."Mellick is back with an explosive new novella about the military of the future. The war is over, but there is nothing left to do but fight. With this in mind, a group of military leaders send a small band of soldiers to the artic, where "draft dodgers" are believed to be hiding. Since there is no enemy army left to fight, the military must now focus on finding and killing draft dodgers. The soldiers find a city of ice occupied by fabric people filled with stuffing. What happens next is something they never bargained for. Can the soldiers escape alive? What will happen when they do? Who are these strange cloth people? This is a very entertaining book. Though it deals with an army, it does not get bogged down in military jargon and detailed military theory. By Mellick's admission at the start of the book, he knows nothing about the military. Instead, he says the book was written from the point of view of a nine-year-old playing with Gi-Joes on a snow day. Indeed it is. Don't miss this one, it is fast, funny, and it makes you think... |
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