teejayniu 's review for:

Dispatches by Michael Herr
5.0

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.