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Breakfast with the Dirt Cult Paperback – October 12, 2012

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"Rude, raw, and rambunctious, this tour of duty into the no man's land of sex, politics, and societal expectations gleefully bashes politically correct gospels. Army soldier Tom Walton's life is altered by a chance meeting with ex-stripper Amy, who promises him "a mad passionate affair if he returns from Afghanistan. Amy is a sensuous metaphor for Tom's evolving love-hate relationship with the human condition; her sensuality is a ghost haunting him from the evocatively captured misery of military training to the terror of deployment. But if Tom makes it back to Amy, is he facing another battle in her arms? Finlay creates in Tom a contradiction of good humor and angst, parading instead of disguising his emotional warts. Occasionally overwritten and erratic in structure, this intense semiautobiographical novel is as much a sobering examination of a man's maturity as it is a righteous condemnation of self-serving cultural roles. Fiction as it should be: dangerous, hurtful, and cathartic."

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"What begins as William Blake's "hapless soldier's sigh" becomes an anguished howl of anger at what has happened to America...BREAKFAST WITH THE DIRT CULT is a coming of age story set against the horror of war. It is a compelling look at the evolution of a soldier's beliefs as he struggles to make sense of what has happened to him and the people around him."
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Paperback: 318 pages
Publisher: The Red Dirt Syndicate (October 12, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0615622992
ISBN-13: 978-0615622996
Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.8 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 48 customer reviews
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Samuel Stevens

Best Modern War Narrative

December 31, 2015

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Finlay's novel reminds me of A Farewell to Arms in many ways. Where Hemingway benefited from a sparse style, Finlay is much more personal with the hero, Tom Walton and the book is much better for it. While there is plenty of action, we get a lot of introspection on the part of the main character and a sense of modern Army life from the inside. The war scenes are clearly drawn from life and depict the cruelties of counter-insurgency warfare without wallowing in self pity or needless anti-war preaching. While some of a more liberal or politically correct bent might shirk at the frank monologues of the main character, I found it refreshing. My only real issue with the book is that I wanted more! The author is a very talented writer, and I hope he puts out more books in the future.

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Bran Mak Sworn

Great insight into men, war, and dare I say love?

November 19, 2015

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I picked this book up on a recommendation from an author friend and could barely out it down.

The good:
-Amazing insight into military life both good and bad.
-Well written with enough detail to not bog the reader down.
-Dives into the deeper places of the mind and soul many military novels avoid.

The bad:
-The narrative does jump around sometimes without warning. This is more of an annoyance and only seems to take away from the story in certain spots.

Other then that a good read. Pick it up.

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Krispy Kirk

Come For The War, Stay For The Truth

November 28, 2015

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I tore through this amazing book and then promptly gave it to the first young soldier I met. OK, so he was just a National Guardsman but still. There is an unusually large amount of wisdom and truth in this book - most of it concerns the role of men in today's society, how boys grow up, and the unreasonable expectations that are placed on us as American males in the military. This is a deep book that totally caught me off-guard. I think I'll buy another copy, reread it, and give it away again!

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Josiah Ferrill

For anyone who has served in the Armed Forces or is still there, you will identify with most of the content.

June 30, 2018

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I loved reading this book. I can definitely identify with much of the frustration the main character was going through; both everyday life in the military and the experience of SIMPing really hard for a girl you are strongly attracted to. The rant on feminism in chapter two was chock full of red pills along with Sgt. Bronson's timeless wisdom that women don't love you and will cheat if and when logistics are favorable to them. Seeing Tom Walton fall hard for a stripper chick was as cringe worthy as watching Forrest Gump fall for his Jenny. Smoke and mirrors, bro, all the way down.
What was even more cringe worthy was Tom Walton hamster rationalizing that he wasn't man enough to keep his love interest at the end. It's like, just shut up and go MGTOW, dude. Anyways, I highly reccomend this book for any man still struggling to kill the naiive idealistic little boy inside you. The biggest take away red pill lesson from the book in regards to attractive women who live and die by their looks; she is not your girl, she will never be your girl, it is just your turn to be with her, so enjoy it while it lasts and don't get emotionally attached. All is fair in love and war.

Also, if you liked this book, you can read more of Sam Finlay's work at Return Of Kings. I don't think he still does op ed pieces there, but you can look through the archives for his past articles.

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Lazlo

Hyper real parable

October 3, 2015

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I'm not very experienced reading military novels but Finlay's accomplished something unique here. His book about an infantryman in Afghanistan, from the middle of his term of service to the tragic fulfillment of it told as a plain though sometimes wry, Bildungsroman rings true. What the author accomplishes is an indispensable of work, U.S. military intervention, and some austere yet deft judgements about masculinity/femininity and our times. It usually takes cinema to recreate the gestalt of a warrior so vividly but this book gets it all down succinctly. If you're a fan of "Packing Inferno", "American Sniper" This book is for you.

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ErichF

A Modern-Day "All Quiet on the Western Front"?

June 24, 2015

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Samuel Finlay's Breakfast with the Dirt Cult has me looking forward to his next book(s). Finlay writes with a candor that is simultaneously discomforting and refreshing. That probably doesn't make sense for those unfamiliar with the book. It's discomforting because it goes against all the "rules"; refreshing because it goes against all the "rules." The vernacular aside, the prose flows very well. Finlay wields a strong understanding of cadence and rhythm. It's more honed in some parts of the book than others, as is expected of a new author. But overall, I was left with the impression that he has the propensity to reach great heights as a novelist, should he choose to continue.

As a veteran, it was easy for me to personally connect with the material, especially the stories of garrison life, the rigors of training and deploying and coming home, handling the existential vice-grip of being an NCO, and so on. The thought kept occurring to me that this book read like a modern-day "All Quiet on the Western Front." It's quite different from Remarque's novel, especially the prose (per the English translation), but the thought stuck with me nonetheless. The main similarities lie in the fact that both works are fiction based on real events, dealing with war and the world surrounding the battlefields. In any event, I was extremely pleased with the book and would recommend it to anyone interested in understanding the lives and trials of todays generation of American veterans.

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If you were ever in the military or want(ed) to be...this is for you!

June 21, 2015

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I spent six years in the Army (Spec. 4P ,FDC,11C/ 74D) back in the day. This book sounds exactly the same as when I was there. Same nonsense from the officers, different day. The real story is here. Every young person that wants to enlist should read this first. No sugar here...just meat. A great read from start to finish. I laughed out loud at the part about reenlistment and the CSM. If you want to find out what the military machine really is ....this is your Bible.
Thank you Mr. Finlay for your honesty and soul. Hooah!

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