Archive for May 2009
Review of Broken Under Interrogation
Without telling to much of the book, one of the things that really comes to mind is the book’s reliance on descriptions of torture methods. These are not told in a poetic manner that has you feeling rage or anger toward the victim, rather you are left with a hollow feeling after being a witness to an almost porn like description of violence. The story does offer enough twists and turns to keep you interested in reading the unwinding tale of military man who uses the violence he learned to silence he perceives to be angry,
This individual gave Broken Under Interrogation 3 stars out of a possible 5.
I don’t understand this review. It seems unfinished. I do, however, enjoy the way that scenes of torture are not told in a poetic manner, instead leaving you with a detached hollow feeling. Porn like descriptions of violence. Porn in my mind aides people in “getting their rocks off”. It isn’t real, and it numbs. Is the danger we are faced with our own numbness to violence that we are actually considering letting things as are depicted in this book occur? I hope not.
Jeffrey M. Hopkins
