![]() Yes- the oration is as excellent as the written work. Would you listen to Johnny Got His Gun again? Why? People who have read a book or have seen a movie or play should NEVER give anything away that might change the experience for others. It ruined the anticipation for a whole generation of people who had not seen the movie. The last plate of the cartoon had Lucy telling Linus, "Rosebud is. It reminds me of the time in the early to mid 70's when Charles Schultz ran a Sunday cartoon featuring Lucy and Linus watching "Citizen Cane" on TV. ![]() But, alas, I will have to wait awhile before I take it up again. As soon as I realized what was happening to ME as I was listening to the introduction I turned it off and found the beginning of the book. It set HER tone, justified though it might be, not mine. It just didn't belong at the beginning of a book that I wanted to discover for myself. I'm not saying that her outrage is unjustified. ![]() It also gave away much more of the plot than I remember from the movie and certainly more than I wanted to hear before reading the book myself. Unfortunately, I didn't know (or didn't pay attention to) the fact that there was to be an introduction by a mother who had lost her son in Iraq that was intended to create a sense of the outrage she felt at losing her son in a war that was unjustified. ![]() I finally purchased it from Audible a few days ago. I saw the movie in 1971 when I was a teenager and had wanted to read the book ever since. ![]()
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