Title: Rent the DVD
Product review: I picked up "Band of Brothers" for two reasons: first, I have been hearing for years what a great historian Stephen Ambrose was; second, I loved the HBO series and thought the book would provide deeper insights into the men of Easy Company and their WWII experience. How surprised I was to discover just the opposite. Ambrose may have been a great historian, but he was no writer. Incidents that in the series were presented with drama and suspense were written of in a flat-footed, perfunctory manner. What I came away with most after reading "Band of Brothers" was less respect for Ambrose and more for the producers and writers of the series, who so successfully fleshed out Ambrose's skeletal text. I don't think I've ever said this before, but skip the book and rent the movie.
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