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Loading... Dispatches (edition 1991)by Michael Herr (Author)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. #532 in our old book database. Not rated. Sorry, just couldn't get past page 50. The author's style is simply not for me. I found it all over the place. No specific narrative, non sequitur paragraphs and sentences that were simply too disjointed to read. I have no idea why this book is considered so groundbreaking and amazing? Maybe it was when it first came out, but this style of writing is just not for me. I am also reading The Things They Carried, also about Vietnam. This is an incredible book, and far superior to Dispatches. If you have one book to read about Vietnam, pass on Dispatches and read this one. no reviews | add a review
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"The best book to have been written about the Vietnam War" (The New York Times Book Review); an instant classic straight from the front lines. From its terrifying opening pages to its final eloquent words, Dispatches makes us see, in unforgettable and unflinching detail, the chaos and fervor of the war and the surreal insanity of life in that singular combat zone. Michael Herr's unsparing, unorthodox retellings of the day-to-day events in Vietnam take on the force of poetry, rendering clarity from one of the most incomprehensible and nightmarish events of our time. Dispatches is among the most blistering and compassionate accounts of war in our literature. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)959.70438History and Geography Asia Southeast Asia Vietnam 1949- 1961–1975 Vietnamese War Other military topicsLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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