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Oct 03, 2017 this novel of the vietnam war deserves all the acclaim it has receivedit is a spectacular piece of work. He shows due respect to the nva that were often demeaned in other books. Marlantes grew up in seaside, oregon, a small logging town. A novel of the vietnam war, karl marlantes achieves a rare pastiche, one of sufficient grim reality as to be forbidding yet so compelling and brutally authentic as to compel one to read on.
Jul 30, 2010 matterhorn is a story of men without women. Karl mariantes has hit the nail on the head about the feel and sense of any war. War is as old as humankind, but in the past, warriors were prepared for battle by ritual, religion and literature which also helped bring them home. When mellas thinks of the girl he left behind in virginia, marlantess prose becomes fluttery, as it does when mellas, suffering an eye injury, is cared.
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