Interestingly, neither bothers me too much now. The language in this book affected me a lot.
This was a land of men calling each other horrible things.
People were called “douchebags,” and “abortions” and “knobs.” People who know me know that I am far from pristine in my language, and I did curse a fair amount for a teenager, but this was different. The Lords of Discipline was unlike anything I had ever read. The nineties were not emotionally healthy years for me). I was sad a lot in the early nineties (and the mid-nineties, and come to think of it the late nineties. It was sometime in the early nineties and I was probably wearing flannel. I feel my copy of The Lords of Discipline and I think about reading it the first time, in the wee small hours of the night, when I was supposed to be sleeping. Probably that’s part of the reason why I’m “finding” my old self in the wee small hours of the night. Sure, my week on swing shift isn’t helping matters on the sleep front. I wanted to keep reading and stay in the world of Will and Tradd and Pig and Mark. I lost myself in a book and didn’t care if I didn’t get seven and a half hours of sleep on a work night. I got lost and found a version of myself that I thought was gone forever. I think it’s kind of nonsense, but it’s heart-felt nonsense. “Few novelists write as well, and none as beautifully.These are some thoughts I jotted down one night while I was having trouble getting to sleep. “A work of enormous power, passion, humor, and wisdom sweeps the reader along on a great tide of honest, throbbing emotion.” - The Washington Star “If you are reading another book when you begin The Lords of Discipline, prepare to set it aside.” - The Denver Post Immersed in a poignant love affair with a haunting beauty, Will must boldly confront the terrifying injustice of a corrupt institution as he struggles to expose a mysterious group known as “The Ten.” We go deep into the heart of the novel’s hero, Will McLean, a rebellious outsider with his own personal code of honor who is battling into manhood the hard way. In this powerful, mesmerizing, and acclaimed bestseller, Pat Conroy sweeps us into the turbulent world of four young men-friends, cadets, and blood brothers-and their days of hazing, heartbreak, pride, betrayal, and, ultimately, humanity. The acclaimed bestseller about upheaval at a Southern military academy, hailed by Larry King as “an American classic,” by the legendary author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini.
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