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4.14 AVERAGE
4.14 AVERAGE
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A moving account of the horrors (and joys) of war. Michael Herr finds the humanity in all of his subjects.
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Graphic: Violence
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There is a good book somewhere in this incoherent mess of a memoir. Herr has plenty of tales and anecdotes, but the book reads as if someone topped up his notes and diary entries, then got the pages scrambled. Read Tim O'Brien, instead.
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While not completely 'factual', this book accomplishes what the New Journalism movement tried to accomplish. To present the truth and not facts. While having not been in combat personally, this presented a brutally honest and heart wrenching depiction of what people my age experienced fighting in a war they shouldn't have really been fighting.
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A truly amazing account of what war does to those fighting and those reporting it. I highly suggest this to anyone who wishes to make any sense of the Vietnam War.
Gets repetitive in the second half, first half is worth reading.
Scattershot poetic vignettes of the nightmarish, hellscape: Vietnam. I've read a lot of war books and this one lives and breathes the reality of life during that war. It's raw and disturbing, but it doesn't shy away from any topic. It's a collection of stories that just paint the whole war in darker shades of black. Michael Herr writes beautifully about a terrible topic.