A Long Way Gone (edit title)

Timothy Gray approved Kelly M’s request to change the title of A Long Way Gone 4 days ago.

Kelly M changed the title of A Long Way Gone 5 days ago.

Old Man In The Sea edited the books influenced by this book of A Long Way Gone Wednesday, August 19 2009.

• Removed Mass Casualties: A Young Medic's True Story of Death, Deception, and Dishonor in Iraq

Old Man In The Sea edited the books like this book of A Long Way Gone Wednesday, August 19 2009.

• Added Mass Casualties: A Young Medic's True Story of Death, Deception, and Dishonor in Iraq

Old Man In The Sea edited the books influenced by this book of A Long Way Gone Tuesday, August 18 2009.

• Added Mass Casualties: A Young Medic's True Story of Death, Deception, and Dishonor in Iraq

Shelfari edited the description of A Long Way Gone Friday, July 31 2009.

• My new friends have begun to suspect I haven’t told them the full story of my life. “Why did you leave Sierra Leone?” “Because there is a war.” “You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?” “Yes, all the time.” “Cool.” I smile a little. “You should tell us about it sometime.” “Yes, sometime.” This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives. But until now, there has not been a first-person account from someone who came through this hell and survived. In A Long Way Gone , Beah, now twenty-five years old, tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels 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.   This is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty.

Pablo F edited the ridiculously simplified synopsis of A Long Way Gone Monday, July 27 2009.

• Added: Ishmael beah writes about his childhood as a boy soldier

Shelfari edited the contributors of A Long Way Gone Tuesday, July 21 2009.

• reordered the contributors.
• 1 : Ishmael Beah:

Shelfari edited the first sentence of A Long Way Gone Friday, July 17 2009.

• THERE WERE ALL KINDS of stories told about the war that made it sound as if it was happening in a faraway and different land.

Shelfari edited the contributors of A Long Way Gone Thursday, July 16 2009.

• Added a contributor: Ishmael Beah: (Primary Author)