book review

Boot: how a few good men became marines: is a book that brings to you the understanding and the know-how of the inside life of what a recruit has to go through in order to become part of the elite part of the corps, instead of seeing life through like a marine drill instructor or an outsider you actually get to see what its like through recruits eyes. The recruit will spend 12 weeks at boot camp, twelve weeks of the hardest work they will ever face. And obstacles that will change them forever into the proud marine that they have been inspired to become. Boot was written for the general knowledge of the people that want to see what its like for a marine to become just that, a marine. Boot was not just written for the outsider that wants to get a glimpse into the lives of a marine and a recruit it was also written for those that want to become one of the few and the proud. To be part of the elite group of warriors, that risk their lives every day, take pride in the grueling grunt work that they do, or even the humanitarian work that they get to do.




I wouldn’t say the book actually is relatively new there are most likely lots of books out there with this same idea, but I personally like this book because it was one not of the idea or the hype to try and make you join the marines and make it look like it was the easiest thing that you will ever do. That is what makes marines special, you see this by reading the book and seeing the way of the recruit through several different eyes see the stories that inspired them or the great men that drew them in, such as one story by a recruit who went in to his high school and heard the usual speeches by the troops saying all this praise and all this glorified speech about being part of the army, navy or the air force. But when it came time for the marine to give his he got up there and told flat out, the marines are not some easy going job your not going to get in there and be pranced around and paraded your going to go to hell basically, you will live and work the hardest you have ever done in your life. But it will be for the good of your nation and it will be for your freedom and your family. It still sends shivers down my spine after just thinking about it. To be a marine is to be proud of what you are going to do and that’s what this book was all about it lead completely up to my expectations it told the truth it didn’t try to make it seem better then it was it told exactly what was going to happen and how it was going to happen.



The thing that isn’t very good about Boot though is that unfortunately, its outdated. Even though it is a good look into the life of a marine it is a little bit on the old side. True that marine life is still the hard work it has always been some of the aspects of the book just can’t happen anymore. Although the D.I. (drill instructor) can’t cuss at you or hit you back when this book was written they could bring you to point of death it seemed they still have the hardest working training out there but they were ordered to get a little bit of a soul. Ha ha. You walk through all twelve weeks with these recruits and the final week of ceremonies and you will never see a grown marine cry, except once and that is at the finial ceremony were they are officially made into marines and just about every marine cries. Through the book you go through the gun training the P.T. (physical training) the crucible and all those obstacle courses and you see were at last they reach their final transformation. Boot is a book that can really bring out what is there as a marine even if it is outdated the feeling is still there the dreams are still there the inspiration is still there. Just makes you want to stand up and shout. I AM GOING TO BE A MARINE