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I am so bored right now. -___-

I need to go do something productive with my life.

But I won't.

I'll sit here,

and lurk.

Because...

its easy.

 

Anyway,

 

A Long Way Gone, Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah.

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Anyone read it?

 

Its actually depressing as hell when I pause and consider all of it really happened.

 

Right. This isn't working. Plan B:

DISCUSS TWILIGHT!!!11!!11!

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Bahaa. That's cuz no one cares for those black b@stards anymore.

(In case you're a retard' date=' racism is sarcasm in my world.)

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I don't have an issue with racism, if it's done in good taste and makes me lol. This didn't make me lol. :/

 

And next time you call someone a retard, use correct spelling, eh? ;)

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I read A Long Way Gone in school last year' date=' it was a great book. It was pretty depressing too.

 

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It reads like fiction, I actually have to take breaks in the middle and remind myself it actually happened. >_>

 

That was something I liked about it. It really made me wonder about all of the things happening in these places. I found myself thinking very often "Wow, this really happened?"

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I read A Long Way Gone in school last year' date=' it was a great book. It was pretty depressing too.

 

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It reads like fiction, I actually have to take breaks in the middle and remind myself it actually happened. >_>

 

That was something I liked about it. It really made me wonder about all of the things happening in these places. I found myself thinking very often "Wow, this really happened?"

 

The author is coming to my college to speak about his book in the fall. I'm actually looking forward to it.

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I read A Long Way Gone in school last year' date=' it was a great book. It was pretty depressing too.

 

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It reads like fiction, I actually have to take breaks in the middle and remind myself it actually happened. >_>

 

That was something I liked about it. It really made me wonder about all of the things happening in these places. I found myself thinking very often "Wow, this really happened?"

 

The author is coming to my college to speak about his book in the fall. I'm actually looking forward to it.

 

I would love to meet Ishmael Beah, I would have so much to ask him.

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What is this book about? (Not twilight >>)

I've heard its name before' date=' and i thought about reading it. But the frickin school reading assignments brought me down D:

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Its about the Sierra Leone civil war.

 

From the back of the book:

 

At the age of twelve, Ishmael Beah fled attacking rebels in Sierra Leone and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he'd been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. At sixteen, he was removed from fighting by UNICEF, and through the help of the staff at his rehabilitation center, he learned how to forgive himself, to regain his humanity, and finally, to heal.

 

And they aren't joking about terrible acts. At one point in the book, Beah describes how they had a bunch of rebel prisoners lined up, and him and a bunch of other boys slit their throats, in a competition to see which one's prisoner would die fastest. The winner was promoted.

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