book reveiw

The True Story Of Operation Red Wing

Lone survivor by Marcus Luttrell is a truly moving and thought changing novel. It is about the author Marcus Luttrell and his three friends and fellow navy SEALs and there experience during operation red wing. Operation red wing is a mission to track down find and kill a man who has been supplying Al-Qaida with a lot of extremely powerful explosions. There is only one problem this man has anywhere from 80 to 200 men guarding him that will do anything to make sure that he stays alive. But Marcus and his teammates are SEALs so they can take on anything. Right?

The book starts out very slow. And multiple times I thought about putting it down wondering what all the hype about it was. But reading farther I now understand how important theses boring chapters where. They explain the history behind Al-Qaida and where they are from And what they have done. As it did feel a lot like history class it did make you slowly hate them for all of the terrible things this group of people had done. Luckily this does not last very long and soon jumps into Marcus and his path to becoming a navy SEAL.

This book has also been made into a movie. And as I think that this movie does do the book justice I think that reading the book is still a lot better than seeing the movie. The book is better because it gives you so much more. More of what you ask, well more of everything. It tells you more about Marcus and how he was training his whole life and how it does show some of this in the movie the book tells all of it witch really makes you appreciate what he has accomplished. Also it show the thoughts of Marcus during the mission witch really makes you understand how terrible it would be to be in his shoes.

I really enjoy all of the characters in this book. Because it really brought life to my thoughts of navy SEALS. I used to always think that these where just warriors and they are all jacked up brutal killing machines. This this book really showed me how they each have families and their own personality, and as they are very efficient at eliminating enemies of the United States of America they do it very smart and stealthy. It also shows how much brotherhood and trust goes along with being a navy SEAL. For example in one scene of the book Officer Mathew Axelson also known as Axe had been shot 3 times and was still fighting but obviously dying. He was the commanding officer of SEAL team six at the time and he would do anything to make sure the rest of his crew would survive. He knew that the only way to do this was to call for back up. He could not do this because they were pinned down in a cave and could not get a reception to headquarters so with his dying breaths he walked out into the open in front of all the enemy and called in back up getting shot and killed seconds after he made the call. Witch just shows how much these men would do for each other.

I also like the meaning that the book gives, or at least the one that I got from this book. I got that we humans are so much more capable than we think that we are. Also that everyone should have a code to live by and should always stick to it no matter how hard the times get.  If I had to give this book a grade using the classic school system of grading (A-F). I would give it a solid A. not an A+ because of the boring intro. But it definitely deserves and A because of the incite that it gives and how thrilling the ending is.