Johnny Got His Gun is pretty sick in all the right ways, highly recommended for my comrades if you’ve never heard if it.
a couple of kickass passages
It will be you. It will be you—you who urge us on to battle, you who incite us against ourselves, you who would have one cobbler kill another cobbler, you who would have one man who works kill another man who works, you who would have one human being who wants only to live kill another human being who wants only to live. Remember this. Remember this well you people who plan for war. Remember this you patriots, you fierce ones, you spawners of hate, you inventors of slogans. Remember this as you have never remembered anything else in your lives.
Put the guns into our hands and we will use them. Give us the slogans and we will turn them into reality. Sing the battle hymns and we will take them up where you left off. Not one not ten not ten thousand not a million not ten millions not a hundred millions but a billion two billions of us all the people of the world we will have the slogans and we will have the hymns and we will have the guns and we will use them and we will live. Make no mistake of it we will live. We will be alive and we will walk and talk and eat and sing and laugh and feel and love and bear our children in tranquility and security in decency in peace. You plan the wars, you masters of men, plan the wars and point the way and we will point the gun.
I read it in highschool for that reason, I think it was really the first and maybe last horror book I ever read, shit was real dark and depressing and i dont even really remember much of it because of that.
Johnny Got His Gun is pretty sick in all the right ways, highly recommended for my comrades if you’ve never heard if it.
a couple of kickass passages
Most who’ve heard of it probably know it because of the video for One by Metallica.
I read it in highschool for that reason, I think it was really the first and maybe last horror book I ever read, shit was real dark and depressing and i dont even really remember much of it because of that.