solaniisrex 's review for:

MASH: A Novel about Three Army Doctors by Richard Hooker

3.0

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I just learned MASH started off as a book recently. So, my first task was to track down a copy and read it. If you've seen the movie, you have a good idea of the events that occur in this book. It presents the 18 month tour of Hawkeye and Duke on the front lines of Korea as a series of anecdotes. Each chapter is an episode, often introducing a different character, in the bizarre, wacky, and sometimes just plain wrong antics of the two surgeons.

Overall, this book is amusing, but nothing I would consider a must-read. More of something to pick up if you're looking to be lightly amused and don't have anything else on the shelf.