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unphilosophize's review against another edition
dark
emotional
informative
tense
fast-paced
5.0
I’m about to start a deep dive into the first gulf war and I think this was a great book to start with.
I really loved the writing style and how brutally honest the author was about their experience. They didn’t hide the ugly truths about war.
Really excellent read
I really loved the writing style and how brutally honest the author was about their experience. They didn’t hide the ugly truths about war.
Really excellent read
fantasma13's review against another edition
4.0
A very different and profound autobiography, an account of a war our just an exercise in writing. This book as been described as the 3, but none make it justice. This is the account of a life, and someone trying to make sense of it.
beillumined's review against another edition
3.0
An incredibly moving account of the war, and certainly not along the vein of what I normally choose to read so I'm glad I branched out and picked this one up. I was surprised at a lot of what I read, and also, I was glad at how open the author is at all of the accounts of what it was like to be a Marine, the good AND the bad.
beingshort's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
informative
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
4.0
hknb43c's review against another edition
3.0
I'm not sure how i feel about this book. since a lot of it is true, it didn't really have a plot. it was descriptions of events, some seemed unrealted things that he just remembered and some went with the book. It was interesting because it didn't talk about how he felt hardly at all. You just had to sort of guess by what he did and what was going on around him how he felt. It was mostly about what it's like to be a marine, i guess, and it's such a massive subject that with this book you just get pieces and parts of the experience.
rschmidt7's review against another edition
4.0
An interesting book and a quick read, but Swofford comes across as insufferable. The four stars are for the writing and the story; if I was to give my opinion on Swofford as a person, I'd agree with many of the other reviewers in their one star reviews.
magicpotatohead's review against another edition
4.0
Poetic book about the life of a marine deployed overseas.