For the first quarter of this school year, I read a book titled No Hero by Mark Owen and Kevin Maurer. This book is a nonfictional autobiography with an approximate total of 300 pages. The main character is obviously Mark Owen, as he goes through an interesting and challenging life. Owen joins the Navy and trains to become a Navy SEAL.
Mark Owen grew up in rural Alaska, isolated from the typical business of urban cities. He was trained how to maintain a rifle safely and how to utilize it for hunting at an adolescent age. Owen always wanted to become a Navy SEALs; he has done his research on their training and recruitment programs, and he has been to every meetup he can when a Navy SEAL representative is in Alaska. After getting accepted in a college in southern California, Owen instantly joins the Navy recruitment program named ROTC. After a few years in ROTC, Owen is honored with the opportunity to join BUD/S, the recruitment of Navy SEALs. Owen trains and trains, then does field work to test his skills and knowledge, all of which are knee trembling, horrific, and tiring. He makes close friends with those who are nearing the official title of a SEAL, as he is one of them. Finally, he becomes an official Navy SEAL, where he executes the most difficult, precise, and accurate missions. Furthermore in the book, you discover what truly happened to his dead friends.
This book is very nicely written and detailed , but it feels like its targeted to teen readers rather than adults. The details were more focused on the settings and factual information about stories Owen went through, it lacks evaluations of his emotions and what is going on in his mind at moments. I am not one to read books like this because it feels more like a Call of Duty game than reality, and I am not very interested into military books either unless it was truly heart-touching, yet I forced myself to read this book because I got stuck with it. Overall, this book was more for a last-resort type of book, it was not very interesting, instead just story telling. I would not recommend this book.
I can see why you wouldn't recommend this book, I probably wouldn't either. Books that are about wars and battles I feel they are more suited for those who actually want to join the force. It's a shame you got stuck with it.
ReplyDeleteI disagree with Gabriel on this one. Many people can enjoy books about wars and not want to join the force. I'm not saying that people who want to join don't want to read about wars, but I think that other people can be happy with a book like this as well.
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