Suffer in Silence by David Reid Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Suffer in Silence
Book Review: Step Into His Boots
Summary: 5 Stars
From the opening pages of "Suffer in Silence" you know you are in for a wild ride. Author David Reid puts the reader in the sand and surf alongside Ensign Mark Grey, a natural athlete and overachiever facing perhaps the supreme challenge of his life.
The Basic Underwater Demolition course (BUD/S) is the first step in becoming a Navy SEAL. The young men accepted for BUD/S training possess some of the best minds and bodies in the Navy, and still the majority will not complete the course. "Suffer in Silence" eloquently shows the reader why that is, and what it takes to become a SEAL.
We join ENS Grey in the second week of training for BUD/S Class 283. Hell Week is still a month or more away, and graduation just a distant mirage. Yet Grey and his classmates have already said goodbye to the ordinary world and accepted another; one of constant physical and psychological pressure, all-powerful instructors, and moments of good or bad luck that can make all the difference.
Mr. Reid skillfully conveys this atmosphere, and his characters are just as convincing. Class 283 is filled with memorable human beings, with all their strengths and weaknesses, being stretched to the breaking point. The BUD/S instructors are no less diverse or sharply drawn. Some are decent and others are arbitrarily cruel. Yet each is complex; moments of honor and grudging respect are intermingled with random acts of violence and pettiness.
There is one more character in this book that deserves mention - the sea. After finishing this book the reader will have a new respect for the quick, cold sea; it is more impartial, more implacable and more capricious than any BUD/S instructor could dream of being.
And that is the key to understanding this book and BUD/S. Like war, the sea is unforgiving of the smallest error, and sometimes takes its due even when no mistakes are made. Ensign Grey and his classmates will learn this lesson well both in and out of training during their time at BUD/S. With "Suffer in Silence", Mr. Reid expertly allows the reader to gain from some of that hard-won wisdom.
Book Review: Suffer in Silence
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is a very realistic account of 1st Phase SEAL training. I got this as a gift and was skeptical, but from the moment I started reading, I was drawn into the realism. I couldn't put it down--I read it in 4 days. As someone who has experienced BUD/S first hand, this book brought back nightmares--situations that I never wanted to think about again. The story sort of reads like Dick Couch's "SEAL Team One", only better and fully uncensored. If you want to know what 1st Phase is really like, what you might be getting yourself into by volunteering to go to BUD/S, check this book out.Book Review: Suffer in Silence
Summary: 4 Stars
This book describes the ordeal of BUD/S in detail that makes it come alive. The plot of the book is a little weak though and in my opinion detracts from the picture he paints of the toughest training in the United States military.Book Review: Suffer in Silence
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchased this book for my husband as he only reads non-fiction. He enjoyed the book. A real look at what these men must go thru.Book Review: Suffer in Silence
Summary: 5 Stars
This book satisfied my need to understand, as much as possible without undergoing the SEAL training myself, what it would be like to persevere through such agony and torment. I have tried reading other books, but they were either too objectively descriptive or repetitive. This book is personal and the author adds a subplot involving a possible murder that keeps the reader wanting to resolve this added mystery, and the primary ones of what the training consists of, who would successfully complete the training, and how. A great and honest read.