Resumo de Dog Soldiers - Robert Stone

Everyday new, articulate and already distinguished writers release novels on bookshelves around North America. Hence, some may find a review on an eminent classic, fruitless. Despite the fact that Robert Stone?s 1973 Dog Soldiers, is the 1975 winner of the national book award. Quoted as brilliant, powerful and literally chilling, Stones work quickly emerged as one of the most influential novels of the seventies. The 1978 thriller ?Who?ll Stop the Rain? based from the novel even used some of the dialog, word for word. Staring Nick Nolte and Tuesday Weld, the film received extraordinary reviews as well and many considered it to become an immediate classic.
In Vietnam, during the cold days of the war; small-time writer John Converse makes a deal with his friend Ray Hicks. Smuggle a stash of heroin to his wife (Marge), back in the states. However, when professional killers ambush Hicks and Marge, the plot turns into a twisted, paranoid adventure. They unknowingly became the nucleus in a malicious scheme fabricated from the ingenious mind, of a corrupted cop. Converse is looking for the action, Hicks knows how to play the game and Marge caught in the middle, is trying to escape.
Sex, drugs, violence, romance and even rock & roll. This novel exhibits all the essential elements of a truly exceptional action story. The storyline holds an unpredictable, chilling suspense that subdues the reader to question; wonder why. The mind captivated by every twist, at every turn of the page. The heart concerned with the vision of each character, in an inebriated state, rushing to meet their fate.
In the end, it?s Stones? intellect that enables Dog Soldiers to still be recommended and regarded as influential too all generations. First, he portrays acute psychological analysis into the depth of each personality. Second, they all seem to bear a certain philosophical approach. The ability to contribute what they are thinking and feeling into the situation in the world around them. The reader may find a somewhat eccentric understanding of each character and in other people over all. How one?s need for excitement and meaning or simply disturbance, could lead to an illicit life of danger.
As the characters begin to come alive, the readers may also come to a profound understanding of themselves, of how they live their lives. Rudiments of the story could be found relatable and in turn may bring forth a unique perspective of ones self. Not to say that readers could decide to enter into a life of crime to fulfill narcissistic desires. Rather, a revelation to learn from the characters mistakes and to take control of their own personal situation, search for other means too fulfillment or even transform desires. A very impressionable novel, with both logical and abstract content, that reads like a true story. Hunter S Thompson once wrote, ?Let the characters tell their own stories? and that is exactly what they do in this literary work of art!

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