Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Black Watch

What!? The language in this play is starting to confuse me, I started reading "Black Watch", a play by Gregory Burke, this week and besides confusing language it began to remind me of Jarhead. As the play started we met Cammy, an arrogant proud to be solider. He began to tell readers how he is not what people believe other soliders to be, he wanted to be in the army it wasn't his last choice. He receives word that a female writer would like to interview him and the other soilders, he and the other begin to clean up and plot how they would get free drinks and their "cocks sucked". To their surprise a male writer shows up and their fantasies were crushed! 
Are all these book going to be the same? Angry solider tells his life story and nasty sex stories!? I mean I'm a guy I think like this at least 120 times a day! What makes these so different, them going to war? I'm beginning to think that hip-hop isn't the only thing that died. Maybe 21st Century Lit needs a boost! Maybe it pick up like Jarhead did for me, I will finish the book for class but I hope there are better works to be read.

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