Author seems to enjoy shooting people a bit too much

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	• Shooter: The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper Jack Coughlin, Casey Kuhlman, ... St. Martin's Griffin, 2006 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 23 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

SHOOTER

I THINK THIS WAS AN EXCELLENT BOOK. IT HELD MY ATTENTION THROUGH OUT THE STORY.I WOULD RECOMMEND THIS BOOK FOR EVERYONE TO READ BECAUSE IT IS ABOUT A TRUE HERO.

"I'll follow you anywhere scumbag."

Read this if you want to put out the welcome matt "When Johnny Comes Marching Home."
Calculated killing in war can sharpen wisdom and appreciation for life.
Coughlin's words are the gemstones of a genuine sage and his insights are as sharp as his shots.
He reveals his marriage problems with way more class and grace than "a human being should be allowed to have."
A platoon of Jeff Foxworthys or Jerry Seinfelds could not have conjured, in their finest hour, the real-life and hilarious laser war chaos created by Jack the Sniper.
The man is a legend and a genius.

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A for effort.

This is a great story. Jack Coughlin is a great Marine and a great sniper. The book is written with a real cocky, type-a personality kind of tone. It doesn't come off all that bad, but you have to get used to it. It's written as if Jack Coughlin were standing in front of you, and talking at you. This is a good buy if you like military books. I got it for free from a co-worker, so the price was right and I wasn't out anything even if it sucked...which it didn't.

A Novel Approch

Overall a good and well written book. It surprised me how flowing the narrative was in this book, seeing as it was a biography,and autobiography at that. Shooter has none of the long drawn out side paths to the story, nor setting up one part of the characters life, then another. There is a bit of set-up in the form of the first chapter, and some side paths to the story, non longer then a page and most a single paragraph. The bulk of the story focuses on Gunnery Sgt. Coughlin's envelopment in the training and invasion of Iraq.

There is the occasional cliche' and the book is as gung-ho as would be excepted from a Marine, but the smoothness of the storytelling and the Coughlin's clarity in retelling events far surprised those rather minor complaints.

A quality book all around.

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Author seems to enjoy shooting people a bit too much

The author/sniper seems to enjoy shooting Iraqis a little too much. Of course, shooting enemies is one of his duties, and he has a right to feel good about doing it well. But the book overflows with cocky statements like "I considered the ill-trained, poorly led soldiers of Iraq to be hamburger in my scope, practically begging me to kill them, and I was more than ready to grant that wish." Still, if you can tolerate the author's apparent machisimo and arrogance, and his constant whining every time his superiors order him to do any job that does not involve shooting, you will get a little piece of action-packed history from the perspective of a person who lived it.

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With more than sixty confirmed kills, Gunnery Sgt. Jack Coughlin is the Marine Corps? top-ranked sniper. Coughlin has written a highly personal story about his deadly craft, taking listeners deep inside an invisible society that is off-limits to outsiders.

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