If I Die in a Combat Zone : Box Me Up and Ship Me Home34 reviews Tim O'Brien Broadway, 1999 Reluctant Participant + Gripping and Intense + Stunning and moving + War Must Not Change             All Quiet on the Western Front456 reviews Erich Maria Remarque Ballantine Books, 1987 A Great Work + a moving read + "A line, a short line, trudges off into the morning." + Murder on the Western Front             The Things They Carried708 reviews Tim O'Brien Broadway, 1998 An Entertaining and Enlightening Introduction to Story Telling + O'Brien Cuts To the Core Of Our Fragile Lives + Perfection Sections of this book were assigned to me as coursework. What I read was so entertaining that I immediately purchased the book and had read and reread it within a weekend. I admit that I'd not have seen the depth of O'Brien's true literary genius had my professor not shed light on some of the ...             Dirty Work9 reviews Larry Brown Vintage, 1990 A most personal, touching story about the tragedy of war + Southern Wambaugh + You Will Remember This Book + Dirty Work Indeed + Damn.             Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)15 reviews Thomas Pynchon Penguin Classics, 2006 The Mother of All War Novels + GR + It Depends + Ambivalent on This One             The Quiet American (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)103 reviews Graham Greene Penguin Classics, 2004 I was a reporter, I had no real opinions about anything + A Bird's Eye View of 1950's French Colonial Vietnam + The Quiet American + I Read it while in Vietnam! What are the chances? + Leaves you with a good bad taste             Dog Soldiers42 reviews Robert Stone Mariner Books, 1997 A Time Capsule for the 60s in decline + best novel set in the 60's ever written + Great Chase! + my favorite book by a great american author             Airships12 reviews Barry Hannah Grove Press, 1994 They loved her at the Bargain Barn... + Fiction that explodes like a bottle rocket + good short story collection + all-in-all very good, yet something irked me . . .             Catch-22832 reviews Joseph Heller Simon & Schuster, 1996 Great Characters Living With Death + 25 words or less + Lighthearted and comical, yet dark and meaningful + Incredible             Hiroshima Notes2 reviews Kenzaburo Oe Grove Press, 1996 Lessons from suffering Hiroshima Notes is a collection of seven essays written between August 1963 and January 1965 on the occasion of several visits by Mr. Oe to Hiroshima. The year 1963 was a watershed for Kenzaburo Oe. In 1963, his son was born with a lesion of the skull through which brain tissue protruded. Unable to ...             Close Quarters: A Novel12 reviews Larry Heinemann Vintage, 2005 Greatest war novel ever + First Rate Vietnam War Novel + THE Definitive Classic from a Combat Vet's Viewpoint of War in Vietnam Larry Heinemann is one of our greatest writers and this book is an intense and painful trip into the hell of war. I could not put it down. Heinemann made me feel fear, anger and desperation at the insanity of war. He uses words like paint, piling detail upon detail until you are inside the story ...             Paco's Story: A Novel18 reviews Larry Heinemann Vintage, 2005 A Story Worth Reading + powerful, with a small hole in the center + Snapshot of Life During/After Nam This book gives a glimpse into the toll that war takes on those who survive. No one but those who endure it can truly fathom the horrors of PTSD, but for the rest of us who want to understand, this book is the best I've read yet. Paco wanders through his life finding some solace in washing dishes ...             Alas, Babylon268 reviews Pat Frank, David Brin Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005 Late Comer to a Good Book + A classic tale that still holds up today + Reqd reading in High School + One of the books I remembered most + Crap characters, excellent setting and premise             In Country (P.S.)49 reviews Bobbie Ann Mason Harper Perennial, 2005 Some people apparently don't get it. . . + Don't pass this one by! After reading numerous reviews that refer to this book as "boring," I felt I needed to speak up against some of the semi-literate reviewers. "In Country" is not an action novel. It's not meant to be a moral guide to living as a teenager. It's more than that, a complex, beautiful novel with ...             Slaughterhouse-Five708 reviews Kurt Vonnegut Dell, 1991 On Another Level + Like Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto. + A highly creative and simultaneously amusing and thought-provoking novel that hammers home its themes; "A-" + One of the best             Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles427 reviews Anthony Swofford Scribner, 2005 Jarhead + Jarhead - The True Story of a Marine Who Served in the Gulf War This is an amazing book that offers insight into the thoughts of a Marine during the Gulf War. It isnt meant to be an action packed book, it is meant to offer reflections about the many things that the Marines and other servicemen experienced. It does a great job at helping someone who isnt in ...             In the Lake of the Woods189 reviews Tim O'Brien Penguin (Non-Classics), 1995 Mystery and depth + The mystery of the human heart + interesting... another hit from O'Brien + In the Mind of PTSD             The Thin Red Line80 reviews James Jones Delta, 1998 Top notch historical fiction + Thin Red Line is the ultimate historical fiction novel + A Comprehensive Review of The Thin Red Line + the harsh reality of battle humanity + A Piece of the Action             Going After Cacciato74 reviews Tim O'Brien Broadway, 1999 About the Power of the Human Imagination + The Best Novel of the Viet Nam War + One Strange Book - O'Brien Captures the Pointlessness + Leaving a War + a mix of realism and fantasy             Airships12 reviews Barry Hannah Grove Press, 1994 They loved her at the Bargain Barn... + Fiction that explodes like a bottle rocket + good short story collection + all-in-all very good, yet something irked me . . .