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	Book Review: Jarhead by Anthony Swofford
		Jarhead was a book before it was a movie.
		This book is definitely not a nursery rhyme and has a lot of adult content that I found interesting.
		Jarhead shows you the author’s life with flashbacks to his childhood.
	teenink.com /Past/2006/June/20379.html (224 words)

	Jarhead (Book) - Living With Style Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Jarhead is the 2003 best-selling book that was the basis for the 2005 film of the same name.
		Jarhead is not your typical war book, in that it isn’t really a war book at all.
		The book is one of the few that tackles a large part of war that is avoided by most: boredom.
	forums.livingwithstyle.com /jarhead-book-t278168.html (578 words)

	CNN.com - The first Gulf War, from the inside - Apr. 22, 2003
		Swofford's book, a searing grunt's-eye view of life in the U.S. Marine Corps -- aka, "the Suck" -- during what is now being referred to as Gulf War I, is piled high with the stuff.
		The book careens around the world, jumping back and forth between Swofford's fractious family life, losing his brother to cancer, watching his sister's mental breakdowns and the disintegration of his parents' marriage; to his enlistment, where he takes his place in a line of Swofford military men, and his experiences in the Persian Gulf.
		Their behavior is foreshadowed in the latter part of the book when the men visibly fray, screaming without warning, mutilating Iraqi corpses and killing camels with their high-powered sniper rifles.
	www.cnn.com /2003/SHOWBIZ/books/04/22/swofford.jarhead/index.html (1128 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Jarhead (xhtml) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		"Jarhead" is a story like Robert Graves' Goodbye to All That, in the way it sees the big picture entirely in terms of the small details.
		These are not the colorful dogfaces of World War II movies with their poker games, or the druggies in "Apocalypse Now." They have no wisecracks, we see no drugs, they get drunk when they can, and there is a Wall of Shame plastered with the photos of the girls back home who have dumped them.
		"Jarhead" was directed by Sam Mendes ("American Beauty"), and it is the other side of the coin of David O. Russell's "Three Kings," also about the Gulf War.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051103/REVIEWS/51019007/1023 (921 words)

	Welcome to Bookmarks Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Jarhead (a name for Marines’ shaved heads) traces ”Swoffie’s” experience as a sniper during Desert Storm, from boot camp to combat.
		“Among the book’s greatest strengths is its refusal to reconcile Swofford’s identity as a would-be killer with the side driven nearly mad by military life.
		Jarhead finally is an antiwar book not only in the skeptical attitude it takes toward national motives but also in its passionate refusal to glorify bloodletting.”
	www.bookmarksmagazine.com /Reviews/Jarhead.htm (484 words)

	Jarhead
		Jarhead, at its heart, is a film about people going into combat with certain pre-conceived notions, expectations formulated from war movies and CNN’s Gulf War coverage.
		The soldiers in Jarhead are the type of people who can quote everything R. Lee Ermey says in Full Metal Jacket, and know exactly what Hitler should have done to win the Second World War.
		The characters in Jarhead walk around wearing expressions like their prom date passed out a little too early into the hotel party, the frustration and lack of fulfillment as visible on their faces as acne scarring.
	comicbookbin.com /Jarhead001.html (491 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Jarhead
		Jarhead didn't do huge box office domestically, and it was passed over by the Academy and other organizations for major award nominations.
		Jarhead chronicles the tour of duty of Anthony Swofford (Jake Gyllenhaal, Donnie Darko) as he enlists in the Marines in the early '90s just as the Gulf War heats up.
		Jarhead deals with the exasperatingly mundane small details of doing menial tasks, training to be a sniper, and what soldiers do in their downtime.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/jarhead.php (2188 words)

	Jarhead - Film Reviews - Film - Entertainment - smh.com.au
		Jarhead is the only war movie I can remember in which the tragedy is that the men don't get to kill anyone.
		Anthony Swofford, who wrote the best-selling book on which it is based, went to Kuwait as a volunteer with the US Marines in 1990, to kick Saddam Hussein's butt.
		Swofford's book is about the desire of men to kill and make war, and their disappointment when most of the death is dealt from the skies, by remote control.
	www.smh.com.au /news/film-reviews/jarhead/2006/02/08/1139074269255.html (770 words)

	Jarhead
		His book is not interesting (just a collection of his distorted views) nor is it informative about the scout/sniper arena.
		He chronicles his thoughts before, during, and after the war and somehow tries to get the reader to believe that he and his fellow sniper platoon members are both the scum of society and the heroic warriors who were the only ones who knew what they were doing over there.
		If any portion of this book is true, this man has some serious problems with reality or has succeeded in selling out the Marine Corps by writing what he thinks the anti-Marine segment of America wants to read.
	www.grose.us /books/jarhead.html (1340 words)

	Simon & Schuster: Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles (Compact Disk) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		When the marines -- or "jarheads," as they call themselves -- were sent in 1990 to Saudi Arabia to fight the Iraqis, Swofford was there, with a hundred-pound pack on his shoulders and a sniper's rifle in his hands.
		He lived in sand for six months, his girlfriend back home betrayed him for a scrawny hotel clerk, he was punished by boredom and fear, he considered suicide, he pulled a gun on one of his fellow marines, and he was shot at by both Iraqis and Americans.
		Jarhead insists we remember the Americans who are wounded or killed, the fields of smoking enemy corpses left behind, and the continuing difficulty that American soldiers have reentering civilian life.
	www.simonsays.com /book/default_book.cfm?areaid=33&isbn=0743535391 (288 words)

	Jarhead: The Book
		Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles, by Anthony Swofford.
		The first five pages are filled with quotations from earlier book reviews, and they promise nothing less than an instant classic.
		The book critics used words and phrases like "brutally honest," "uncompromising," "especially relevant," "profound," and "candid." The picture of the author that emerges, however, is of a malingerer, a thief, and a serial drunk.
	www.military.com /opinion/0,15202,79248,00.html (975 words)

	Jarhead (book) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jarhead is a Gulf War memoir by author Anthony Swofford.
		This book recounts Swofford's enlistment and service in the U.S. Marine Corps during the First Gulf War, in which he served as a Scout Sniper with the STA (Surveillance and Target Acquisition) Platoon of 2nd Battalion 7th Marines.
		The book thus runs counter to most autobiographical military chronicles, sidestepping the stereotypes of slaughtering civilians or a soldier's best friend dying in his arms.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jarhead_(book) (257 words)

	Jarhead (2005): Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Jamie Fox, Chris Cooper - PopMatters Film Review
		As Jarhead begins, Swoff and his fellow trainees -- a company of "retards and fuckups" -- don't know they'll be headed to the Gulf War in a few months.
		Anthony Swofford's Jarhead, a memoir of that brief encounter in the desert, is one man's story but more than that, it's a smart, sad treatise on war.
		Showing their boredom, Jarhead pokes at the troops' conditioned desire for action, their commitment to marine ideals, their need to believe that "kicking Iraqi ass" is the means to self-definition.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/j/jarhead-2005.shtml (1136 words)

	"Jarhead" - Salon
		Early in Sam Mendes' adaptation of Anthony Swofford's memoir of the 1991 Gulf War, "Jarhead," a monstrous boot-camp drill instructor smashes the head of a young Marine recruit -- the protagonist and narrator of the story, played by Jake Gyllenhaal -- into a chalkboard for no good reason.
		What's odd about the scene is that in Swofford's book, the instructor uses Swofford's head to break the chalkboard (in the movie, it remains intact), so that his skull hits the cinder-block wall behind it.
		And with "Jarhead" he pulls off, effortlessly, what so many pro- and antiwar individuals since Vietnam have tried so conscientiously to avoid: His movie is antiwar and anti-soldier.
	www.salon.com /ent/movies/review/2005/11/04/jarhead/index.html (560 words)

	"Jarhead" by Anthony Swofford - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Its touchstones are Joseph Heller's "Catch-22" (a novel, but still) and Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried," books that strive to explain that, stupid as it is to fight wars, it is even stupider to glorify the fighting of them.
		Anthony Swofford's "Jarhead" is one of those books; you imagine him half-wishing, as he gets to the end of the book, that he could reach back and start erasing it from the beginning.
		From "Jarhead," you will learn that Marines pump themselves up by watching war movies on video: "We yell Semper fi and we head-butt and beat the crap out of each other and we get off on the various visions of carnage and violence and deceit, the raping and killing and pillaging.
	www.salon.com /books/review/2003/03/10/jarhead/index_np.html (776 words)

	Jarhead
		In his searing memoir "Jarhead," Anthony Swofford examines his life as a marine in the first Gulf War with unflinching honesty, and explores the unsettling aftershocks of that life-changing experience with clarity and biting wit.
		When the U.S. Marines -- or "jarheads" -- were sent to Saudi Arabia in 1990 for the first Gulf War, Anthony Swofford was there.
		He lived in sand for six months; he was punished by boredom and fear; he considered suicide, pulled a gun on a fellow marine, and was targeted by both enemy and friendly fire.
	www.northwest-books.com /html/history/jarhead.html (299 words)

	USATODAY.com - Mother of Marine depicted in 'Jarhead' takes issue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Her son, Lance Cpl. Troy Collier, was a battlefield comrade of the book's author, Anthony Swofford.
		When she got hold of the best-selling book Jarhead, Eldridge said she felt like she lost her son a second time.
		Swofford says in his book he threw the instigator of the fight over the bar in a crash of broken bottles.
	www.usatoday.com /life/people/2005-11-03-jarhead-mother_x.htm (600 words)

	Amazon.ca: Jarhead (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition with Collectible Photo Book): DVD: Sam Mendes,Chris Cooper,Jamie ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Jarhead is one of those examples where the book is better than the movie, but not for lack of trying.
		The film 'Jarhead' is based on a book of the same name by by Anthony Swofford; both the book and the film are bound to make some people angry.
		This war was very different from Vietnam, of course, but some of the issues are the same - interminable waiting, equipment malfunctions (if it isn't just plain missing), fear and bravado in a strange mix, questioning and ambiguity as to the value of the war, the cause, and even their own lives.
	www.amazon.ca /Jarhead-Two-Disc-Widescreen-Collectible-Photo/dp/B000E0OBK6 (2754 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Jarhead: A Soldier's Story of Modern War: Books: Anthony Swofford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In 'Jarhead: A Soldier's Story of Modern War,' it seems that Swofford has tried to balance his account of the war with anecdotes about his personal life before and after it.
		I would recommend this book to a casual reader seeking an insight into the workings of modern warfare and the psychological profile of a highly trained soldier.
		However, this book is not so much a story as a collection of events in the author's life.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Jarhead-Soldiers-Story-Modern-War/dp/0743239199 (1109 words)

	BOOK TV.ORG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Awestruck with the mythos of the Marines, his dreams of combat became frustrated when he realized the war was mainly being waged with bombs.
		Stationed in the desert for six months and consumed with boredom and fear, Swofford considered suicide, pulled a gun on one of his fellow Marines, and was shot at by both Iraqis and Americans.
		In the book, he uses flashbacks to chronicle his journey from boot camp to seasoned combatant filled with doubts about his choices.
	www.booktv.org /General/index.asp?segID=3376&schedID=384 (195 words)

	The author of 'Jarhead' talks about his book's adaptation to film
		His reticence disappeared when discussing his book and the film, which take their titles from a nickname for Marines resulting from their scalped haircuts.
		This was a different kind of war book; it needed a different kind of war film.
		"Jarhead" was my first book and it will always be important to me. But, just as I've left the Marine Corps, I've left "Jarhead" behind me. Give me another 20 years and see what I've written then.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /movies/246556_swofford01.html (926 words)

	Powell's Books - Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles by Anthony Swofford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		When the marines — or "jarheads," as they call themselves — were sent in 1990 to Saudi Arabia to fight the Iraqis, Swofford was there, with a hundred-pound pack on his shoulders and a sniper's rifle in his hands.
		When the Marines--or "jarheads" as they call themselves--are sent to Saudi Arabia to fight the Iraqis, Swofford is there, with a 100-pound pack on his shoulders and a sniper's rifle in his hands.
		When the Marines — or "jarheads" as they call themselves — are sent to Saudi Arabia to fight the Iraqis, Swofford is there, with a hundred-pound pack on his shoulders and a sniper's rifle in his hands.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-0743235355-0 (1324 words)

	One Hand Clapping » Blog Archive » Jarhead - a review
		I read the book several years ago (well before the current war in Iraq) and was struck by how, despite having an apparently uncommon intellectual streak, Swafford seemed to be morally and spiritually bankrupt.
		Jarhead (book version) did not purport to be a nonfiction account of the first Gulf war.
		I’ve read some about the book (I boought it but haven’t read it) and the movie and I believe it to be more Hollywood trash by a guy that was more than happy to get out at the end of his hitch.
	www.donaldsensing.com /index.php/2005/11/04/jarhead-a-review (5479 words)

	EXCLUSIVE: Screenwriter William Broyles Talks Jarhead
		I think one of the things when you have a book is there's always the point at which you realize you're trying to be too true to the book.
		Whereas Jarhead is clearly a story recalled by an older man of his youth.
		It's in a way like Jarhead is, that it's about the families that you make with your passions and with your work, as opposed to the family that you have domestically.
	www.movieweb.com /dvd/news/27/11327.php (1905 words)

	Jarhead: 21st Century Books
		I am not usually drawn to read books about the military or military battles, but this book was different… it held me from the first sentence and I could not let go.
		It's an anti-war book by an ex-Marine sharp shooter.
		This is a book for anyone who wants to experience the truth of battle and not just through the media's filter.
	www.21stbooks.com /page/21stbooks/prod/bi7415 (180 words)

	'Jarhead' author speaks out for disabled veterans DAV Magazine - Find Articles
		The book, a memoir of Swofford's experiences as a scout sniper in the Persian Gulf War, doesn't look at life in the Corps with rose-colored glasses.
		As its title suggests, Swofford's goal in the book is to provide an honest, insider's look at his military experience.
		In the book and in his columns, he's written extensively about the transition warriors face when they return from combat and readjust to civilian life.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0LFT/is_3_48/ai_n16419265 (939 words)

	Amazon.ca: Jarhead : A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles: Books: Anthony Swofford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Jarhead brandishes the intensity of military life in all its maddening contradictions.
		A lot of people don't like this book, and I respect their points of view, some of which are well argued here.
		After reading the first few chapters, the book seems to be extremely pessimistic or possibly realistic of the hard times for soldiers in war.
	www.amazon.ca /Jarhead-Marines-Chronicle-Other-Battles/dp/141651340X (1895 words)

	Our Common Text: 2003-2004 - Jarhead
		We are pleased to announce the Common Text for 2003-2004, Anthony Swofford's Jarhead, a raw and riveting memoir of the Gulf War sure to rouse dialogue, provoke debate, and challenge intellectual complacency - as any great book should.
		"Jarhead is some kind of classic, a bracing memoir of the 1991 Persian Gulf war that will go down with the best books ever written about military life." Mark Bowden, New York Times Book Review, March 2, 2003.
		John Gregory Dunne, in his May 29, 2003, New York Review of Books, refers to Jarhead as "a bracing and unforgiving corrective to the spectator patriotism so prevalent today" and talks about the culture of today's military as well as the typical profile of today's enlisted soldier.
	wally.rit.edu /depts/ref/research/jarhead (597 words)

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