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Start your review of The Wasted Generation. Feb 11, Debbie Zapata rated it it was amazing Shelves: gutenberg. I had never heard of Owen Johnson before seeing this title at Project Gutenberg. According to Wiki, he wrote a wildly popular series of novels about life at a prep school, earning comparisons to Kipling.
Gutenberg has a few of his earlier titles available. I will be interested to read one or two and see how the styles changed from Boy to Man.
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Because this book, The Wasted Generation, is a philosophical study of one man's groping progress to maturity, looking deep within himself and deep into the world around him, trying to make sense of it all, trying to see where things went wrong and what to do to make them right again.
I cannot help but think that Johnson dealt with all of the issues he has his main character David Littledale puzzle through. This idea is what seems to me so sadly intriguing about WWI: it completely changed the direction society was heading. For all the people who expected life to remain forever a certain way, this had to have been a huge shock.
Johnson explores that idea and much more in a way that gripped me from start to finish. We meet David Littledale when he is behind the lines recuperating from injuries received at the battle of Verdun. He is an American who was in France before the war began, a member of the privileged class who spent his time as most young people of his station did: partying, searching for entertainment, trying so hard not to be bored with life that the pursuit of stimulation itself became boring.
When the war began David joined the Foreign Legion more for the excitement of doing so than for any other reason, but he quickly began to see that much more was involved than he had ever thought about: the spirit of the people, the love of country, the bond between men of all walks of life and their ability to work together to protect something they love.
David has decided to write an honest journal of his life and experiences, and the key here is his wish to be honest, to hide nothing from himself or from whoever might someday read the diary. This is not so much a soldier's war story full of battle scenes, as a man's reflecting on his entire life, sharing how he arrived at being the David he is when we meet him, and then following the stream of life to the David he eventually becomes. The trenches are here in short scenes that will make you cry, but the War is more of a lurking presence pulling the world to pieces in one hand and bringing it together in a new way in the other.
As the story progresses, David is granted a furlough to visit his father who has had a stroke. America is still not in the war, but there are businessmen on the homebound ship who are reaping profits from the carnage, and their conversations are fuel for the debate in David's mind.
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There is also a mysterious woman, fleeing France in great sorrow, obviously noble but wishing to be anonymous. Who is she, why is she there, what has happened in her life, how will she respond to David's empathy and what will be her influence in his life? Some of the answers are revealed while David is with his family in Connecticut. Community Reviews. Showing Rating details.
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More filters. Sort order. Start your review of The Wasted Generation. Feb 11, Debbie Zapata rated it it was amazing Shelves: gutenberg.
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I had never heard of Owen Johnson before seeing this title at Project Gutenberg. According to Wiki, he wrote a wildly popular series of novels about life at a prep school, earning comparisons to Kipling. Gutenberg has a few of his earlier titles available. I will be interested to read one or two and see how the styles changed from Boy to Man.
Because this book, The Wasted Generation, is a philosophical study of one man's groping progress to maturity, looking deep within himself and deep into the world around him, trying to make sense of it all, trying to see where things went wrong and what to do to make them right again.
I cannot help but think that Johnson dealt with all of the issues he has his main character David Littledale puzzle through. This idea is what seems to me so sadly intriguing about WWI: it completely changed the direction society was heading. For all the people who expected life to remain forever a certain way, this had to have been a huge shock.
Johnson explores that idea and much more in a way that gripped me from start to finish. We meet David Littledale when he is behind the lines recuperating from injuries received at the battle of Verdun. He is an American who was in France before the war began, a member of the privileged class who spent his time as most young people of his station did: partying, searching for entertainment, trying so hard not to be bored with life that the pursuit of stimulation itself became boring.
When the war began David joined the Foreign Legion more for the excitement of doing so than for any other reason, but he quickly began to see that much more was involved than he had ever thought about: the spirit of the people, the love of country, the bond between men of all walks of life and their ability to work together to protect something they love.
David has decided to write an honest journal of his life and experiences, and the key here is his wish to be honest, to hide nothing from himself or from whoever might someday read the diary.
This is not so much a soldier's war story full of battle scenes, as a man's reflecting on his entire life, sharing how he arrived at being the David he is when we meet him, and then following the stream of life to the David he eventually becomes. The trenches are here in short scenes that will make you cry, but the War is more of a lurking presence pulling the world to pieces in one hand and bringing it together in a new way in the other.
As the story progresses, David is granted a furlough to visit his father who has had a stroke. America is still not in the war, but there are businessmen on the homebound ship who are reaping profits from the carnage, and their conversations are fuel for the debate in David's mind. There is also a mysterious woman, fleeing France in great sorrow, obviously noble but wishing to be anonymous. Who is she, why is she there, what has happened in her life, how will she respond to David's empathy and what will be her influence in his life? Ron Clark is no stranger to food waste.
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After more than 20 years of working to supply fresh produce to California's food banks, he knows every point between farm and table where produce leaves the human food chain to be ploughed under, composted, fed to animals or buried in a landfill. Most of this discarded food is healthy and delicious, and is purged for cosmetic reasons. By the time he left the food bank system, Clark was filling 60 to 80 truckloads a week with food he recovered from farmers and packers, bringing million pounds of produce to hungry clients.
Today he looks on in awe as a new wave of innovators tries to tackle the problem of food waste.
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Most of this new generation are somethings fresh out of college, he told me. And they're using business startups, rather than nonprofits, to get it done. An estimated 40 percent of all food grown never gets eaten by humans, and hunger isn't the only consequence. Wasted food also represents wasted water, and contributes to global warming, thanks to the methane produced when it rots in the landfill. But the movement to stop food waste is booming. Store traffic increased 24 percent.
In mid July a petition was initiated at Change. Figueiredo, whose day job as a municipal solid waste manager in the Bay Area, is an anomaly in the movement, both because of his advanced age—36—and because his organization is a nonprofit. Most of the newer efforts to end food waste are just as mission-driven as a food bank, but are sustained by sales of recovered produce and products made from it, rather than grants and donations. And they are run by kids.