Johnny Mad Dog

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A Los Angeles Times Book Review Favorite Book of the YearJohnny Mad Dog, age sixteen, is a member of a rebel faction bent on seizing control of war torn Congo Laokol , at the same age, simply wants to finish high school Together, they narrate a crossing of paths that has explosive results Set amid the chaos of West Africa s civil wars, and acclaimed by such writers as Philip Roth and Chinua Achebe, Emmanuel Dongala s powerful, exuberant, and terrifying new work is a coming of age story like no other. Free Download [ Johnny Mad Dog ] By [ Emmanuel Dongala ] – kino-fada.fr Interesting Strong start, but then starts to run out of steam irony becoming slapstickEmmanuel Dongala crafts something that is in several ways important, even if its not great literature Johnny Mad Dog is the tale of two teenagers participating in one of the seemingly perennial genocidal civil wars in Central Africa one as aggressor and one as victim The chapters alternate narrators between Johnny, the gun toting kid who imagines himself an intellectual yet kills freely and without remorse and sees enemies everywhere, and Laokole, a girl caught in the midst of horror, fleeing Emmanuel Dongala crafts something that is in several ways important, even if its not great literature Johnny Mad Dog is the tale of two teenagers participating in one of the seemingly perennial genocidal civil wars in Central Africa one as aggressor and one as victim The chapters alternate narrators between Johnny, the gun toting kid who imagines himself an intellectual yet kills freely and without remorse and sees enemies everywhere, and Laokole, a girl caught in the midst of horror, fleeing with her legless mother and younger brother amongst the throng of terrified refugees Johnny has a second grade education and believes that true power comes from the barrel of a gun Laokole is a week away from graduating at the top of her class in highschool with dreams of studying to become an engineer The story plays out as the narrators live out concurrent events f...A graphic and thoroughly cynical account of African warfare, told from the POVs of Mad Dog, a sixteen year old soldier, and Laokole, a sixteen year old refugee fleeing with her family from Mad Dog and his ilk The two teens havein common than they will ever know, but they re on opposite sides of a cruel conflict Characters appear in full detail, then disappear just as quickly as they are killed The affect is to leave the reader off balance The selfishness and ineptitude of Western huma A graphic and thoroughly cynical account of African warfare, told from the POVs of Mad Dog, a sixteen year old soldier, and Laokole, a sixteen year old refugee fleeing wit...terribly written, poorly conceived parallel narrative device, shallow characters all this has going for it is the edgy, in vogue backdrop of civil war torn Africa and even that wasn t very well executed.Pain I suppose if I were to pick one word to describe this novel, this would be it Every chapter oozes with pain, and I, the reader, just cannot imagine that events such as these occurred in the planet.Johnny Mad Dog written as Johnny Chien Mechant is a novel by Congolese writer and chemist Emmanuel Dongala It tells the story of a civil war that occurred in a country somewhere in Central West Africa It is unnamed all throughout the book, but there are several clues as to what country inspi Pain I suppose if I were to pick one word to describe this novel, this would be it Every chapter oozes with pain, and I, the reader, just cannot imagine that events such as these occurred in the planet.Johnny Mad Dog written as Johnny Chien Mechant is a novel by Congolese writer and chemist Emmanuel Dongala It tells the story of a civil war that occurred in a country somewhere in Central West Africa It is unnamed all throughout the book, but there are several clues as to what country inspired this The neighboring countries of Congo Brazzaville, Zaire presently known as Congo Kinshasa , and Rwanda were mentioned People used the CFA franc as a currency Women used colorful clothes called the pagne for everyday use and wear The country is a Fran...There may be spoilers but I may be too lazy to use a tag just sayin.So I may have a bit of a vendetta against endings Bad endings that is See my review of The Roar More examples are the movie Master and Commander, previous relationships, the melty at the bottom of an ice cream sundae, the tv show The Whole Truth and oh, wait, did I mention this book I was engrossed in this book so much that I didn t want it to end I put it down for two days with two chapters left to prolong my time w There may be spoilers but I may be too lazy to use a tag just sayin.So I may have a bit of a vendetta against endings Bad endings that is See my review of The Roar More examples are the movie Master and Commander, previous relationships, the melty at the bottom of an ice cream sundae, the tv show The Whole Truth and oh, wait, did I mention this book I was engrossed in this book so much that I didn t want it to end I put it down for two days with two chapters left to prolong my time with these characters I should have left good enough alone This was a solid 5 s...I liked the way Mr Dongala used the two person tale telling.Johnny, valse hond is een Congolees oorlogsverhaal dat verteld wordt vanuit twee paar ogen door de ogen van de 16 jarige kindsoldaat Johnny en door de ogen van de 15 jarige vluchtelinge Laokol Johnny, die zichzelf beter vindt dan wie ook, die doet alsof hij voor niemand bang is, maar ook zijn kinderlijke, of misschien beter, jeugdige kanten heeft.Op sommige momenten is hij w l bang en heeft hij zijn dromen over de toekomst Zoals iedereen van zijn leeftijd heeft Laokol Nog maar 15 jaar oud Johnny, valse hond is een Congolees oorlogsverhaal dat verteld wordt vanuit twee paar ogen door de ogen van de 16 jarige kindsoldaat Johnny en door de ogen van de 15 jarige vluchtelinge Laokol Johnny, die zichzelf beter vindt dan wie ook, die doet alsof h...I read this book a few years ago, and I still remember it It made me want to vomit and I cried Although these feelings are not the ones one likes to experience, this book is one of my favourite ones and one of the most still vivid in my memory And may do not remember the names of the characters, but I shall never forget the violence depicting what is unfortunate...Sounds wrong to say I enjoyed a book from the point of view of a child soldier rapist but I genuinely did The westerners were a little too on the nose cardboard cut out for my liking, but to be fair white peop...

Johnny Mad Dog
  • English
  • 04 May 2017
  • Paperback
  • 321 pages
  • 0312425309
  • Emmanuel Dongala
  • Johnny Mad Dog