Books by Karl Marlantes
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review 1: I don't agree with all of this book, and I certainly don't understand it all, sometimes on an intellectual, sometimes an emotional level. However, a thoughtful, articulate person tries to be completely honest about his Vietnam wartime experience, and what it meant at the time an...
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review 1: Extremely well paced, thought-provoking, et cetera. Only portion of this long novel where I was jolted out of the text was towards the end when Hawke reveals he's going regular, and Mellas behaves as if he and Hawke didn't already have a conversation about why someone might decid...
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review 1: A SFPL "On the Same Page" book. I was expecting an antiwar book, but the author, who was a Marine officer in Vietnam, wants the military to give better "spiritual and psychological tools" to help servicemen & women cope with the conflicting and dissonant feelings one gets from be...