Review – The Forever War
What can I say? Read it! I mean, drop everything you’re doing and read The Forever War by Joe Haldeman .
I can go on about the fantastic short writing style, the visceral subject matter, or the fact that I actually cried reading it, but all of those would be superficially inadequate reasons.
This book is now my #1 by such a high margin that it’s sitting on top of mount Everest, while the other books in my list haven’t even gotten to base camp.
Even if you don’t like sci-fi, even if you don’t like “war” books, even if you don’t like reading, you need to read this book.
And if you don’t believe me, William Gibson (author of Neuromancer) said “to say that the forever war is the best science fiction war novel ever written is to damn it with faint praise.” And I whole heartedly agree.
I mean it.
I couldn’t agree more, this book is an emotional rollercoaster for even the toughest emotionally of us. beautifully written and contains no extra subplots for page filling. A real masterpiece.