Putting the grunts of 2007 in Cowboy stadium could not provide a better view of America in battle. Watching a 19 year-old come to grips with the disconnect between his reality and the reality of a citizenry connected to his war through imbedded video is a brilliant way of explaining why war persists and why soldiers choose to risk their lives. It makes one wonder if it's an evolutionary flaw that permits us to romanticize armed conflict over the past 250,000 years.

This book probably caused more discussion than any other we've read. We came away with 2 schools of thought. One, the author's, that the religion Islam and its "True Believers" must be opposed for any progress to be made for Muslim women. And two, that the author paints two broad a picture of the worlds 2nd largest religion and falls into the same trap as the "True Believers" and does no acknowledge the peaceful non-fanatical muslims.

But the overloading of spiritualism turns the book into meaningless meandering. The medical approach to treatment of depression would have been a good central theme. The ghost overlay just destroys the books credibility.