Anyone read it? (Or seen the movie?) I just heard about it, and it looks really interesting (however disturbing it may turn out to be). We can't really talk about the book's implications because of political content, but would anyone recommend it?

Years ago, in a creative writing class, the teacher posed the question, "What is the worst thing that you can imagine happening to you?" After pondering various torture/death scenarios, I wrote that remaining alive, but rendered completely blind/deaf/dumb/immobile, would be the worst fate I could imagine. The teacher asked if I had read "Johnny Got His Gun". I'd never heard of it, so I read it shortly thereafter. I thought it was very good. I also enjoyed the movie several years later.

Here is an excellent article on the legacy of Dalton Trumbo...he would've turned 99 today:

http://www.wga.org/WrittenBy/0202/trumbo.html

Also:

"Trumbo was one of the 'Hollywood Ten,' the guys who stood up to the House Un-American Activities Committee even though it meant jail time, and was also blacklisted for his political stand--but he also won two Oscars while writing under various pseudonyms, and he was the first blacklisted writer to get his own name back on the screen with Spartacus."
~ http://www.beatrice.com/