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Warm Bodies - A Wacky Novel about Men, Women and the Navy ReviewThis warm-hearted comic novel about a Lieutenant (junior grade) in the peacetime US Navy of the 1950s should be back in print, it is a minor classic of its time and place. It was made into the kind of stupid Hollywood film ALL HANDS ON DECK (1961) but the book has a wonderful charm and it's filled with rueful stories about the Navy that will ring true with anyone who's ever been in the service--or been in love, because it is a pretty good love story too.
Donald Morris went on to more sober literary chronicles, he became the author of the amazing THE WASHING OF THE SPEARS which attempted to tell the story of the Zulu's war against ther British from the Zulu point of view. It is said that Hemingway gave Morris the idea for his groundbreaking book.
You can see in WARM BODIES his sympathy for other races, as the most memorable character in the book is an enlisted man called S.E. (Shrieking Eagle) Garfield, a genius with hardware who refuses to speak anything but his native Chickasaw. (In the film this character was played by Buddy Hackett, who did a pretty good job but of course he wasn't Indian.)
The book details the plight of naval officers who aren't married, "confirmed bachelors," and how they try to make themselves comfortable homes on board their ships. In one funny episode a girlfriend tries to teach Morris how to make "something called beer balls." In another storyline he tries to goose the sailors into doing more chipping of rust off the hull of the ship. "Chipping irons never wear out, and they never break. Sailors may surreptitiously drop them overboard, but the boatswain invariably has new ones ready. No one was ever been able to make a boatswain admit that he has run out of chipping irons. Rudolph Rush claimed that eighteen and one half per cent of the United States defense budget was spent on chipping irons."
Since Morris wrote the book, the term "Warm Bodies" has passed from naval slang into the general population, but it's worth going back and seeing how he phrased it. "A Warm Body is a man with at least one arm and two fingers who can pick something up when he is told to. Warm Bodies can carry boxes, count small objects, turn on lights, chip paint, and sweep." Sounds like zombies, don't they?
Pat Boone played Donald Morris in the long-ago film, and Barbara Eden played Sally Hobson, the Southern girl from Little Hominy (near Lye, Virginia) with whom he falls in love. What a book! What a great raconteur!Warm Bodies - A Wacky Novel about Men, Women and the Navy Overview

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