Hes the author of the novels Youngblood and the memoir Kaboom: Embracing the Suck in a Savage. Book Review: Kaboom by Matt Gallagher Gallagher has a lot of conversations with his platoon’s interpreter (tarp), a man his men call Sage Knight and treat like a rock star when they find out he has two wives and often has sex six times a day. Like Anthony Swofford’s Jarhead, Gallagher’s Kaboom resonates with stoic detachment and timeless insight into a war that we are still trying to understand. Matt Gallagher is a Wake Forest graduate and US Army veteran. ( see the review posted on this blog, below). The book dives directly and completely into its story. Army, there were more than twentyfive congressional inquiries regarding the matter as well as reports through the military grapevine that many high-ranking officials and officers at the Pentagon were disappointed that the blog had been ordered closed.Based on Gallagher’s extraordinarily popular blog, Kaboom is “at turns hilarious, maddening, and terrifying,” providing “raw and insightful snapshots of a conflict many Americans have lost interest in” ( Washington Post). Kaboom, written by a serving US soldier, Matt Gallagher is an account of battle, gleaned from experiences during sixteen months in Iraq. When the blog was shut down in June 2008 by the U.S. His subjects ranged from mission details to immortality, grim stories about Bon Jovi cassettes mistaken for IEDs, and the daily experiences of the Gravediggers-the code name for members of Gallagher’s platoon. When Lieutenant Matt Gallagher began his blog with the aim of keeping his family and friends apprised of his experiences, he didn’t anticipate that it would resonate far beyond his intended audience.
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