Tim Combes’s Reviews > Angel Down > Status Update

“the so-called War to End All Wars. . . Bagger understands with horror, is really the War to Begin All Wars, countries carved into furious parcels and technology matured to a stage of perpetual regeneration”

Takes about 50 pages to get used to the tone and the prose (one run on sentence, every paragraph starting with “and”) but damn now I’m hooked

"Bagger, of course, inserts explicit content, Tarzan revised to be a randy sodomite and Lady Greystoke a nudist cannibal, to which Arno only nods along, suggesting there’s no atrocity Bagger can concoct the Great War hasn’t reduced to believability,"

"Bagger’s guts thicken like they do anytime he sees Arno, the kid’s fourteen, lied about his age to some Nebraska National Guardsfuck trying to make quota, and ever since has been a tick sucked to the 172nd’s underbelly, devoid of skills but too damn small for the Germans to hit,"

So far this feels like a more sardonic Catch-22, which I don't hate.