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Title: Unreadable gibberish
Review: I read the great reviews of this book, so I decided to buy it. Bad move!I read the first 50+ pages and could take no more. Herr's writing amounted to incoherent ramblings of free association, presumably induced by one of the more potent illicit drugs - there was no time-line and thus no history as such. To make things worse, his style is pretentious.Perhaps the book gets better further on, but the fist 50+ pages were all I could stand (as I was on vacation).Instead, I read "A Bright Shing Lie: John Paul Vann" and Stanley Karnow's "Vietnam: a History" -- both great books. There are many other fantastic books out there on Vietnam, such as "We Were Soldiers Once... and Young", "The Killing Zone: My Life in Vietnam", and "A Rumor of War" by Caputo.All of these make Herr's book look like the gibberish it is!
