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Smiling Jack posted:Matterhorn is loving amazing. Seriously no-poo poo go read this loving book right now amazing. Yes. Stop what you're doing and go read this book. OK, now that you've read it and it didn't take long, did it? Page turner, it is. Now you can go read The Things They Carried. It's a series of connected short stories that take place mostly in Vietnam. The writing is beautiful and worth the read if only for his description of the beauty of the country amidst all the death.
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I haven't read his other work, but I did very much enjoy his "long grey line"
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Godholio posted:So his theory is that the War of 1812 was a big win for the US? That's interesting. The war of 1812 was a win for the navy. Back when, there were strong feelings about standing armies and such. The opposite tradition was the militia on the village green and all that, but you couldn't exactly muster a frigate on the village green*. Warships required a huge amount capital and manpower to sustain. Once the war broke out, the navy validated its own existence. *though you could build competing flotillas on the opposite sides of a lake like at the Battle of Plattsburgh http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Plattsburgh
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suboptimal posted:I just finished Matterhorn. Holy gently caress, what a great read that was. One of the best novels about Vietnam for sure. One of the best novels period. This is such an amazing book, I recommend it to everyone.
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