Title: Sad, beautiful, and funny as hell
Product review: I never thought I would love a book about paratroopers. I never thought a book about paratroopers could be so evocative and romantic--I knew it might be funny. This book just sucked me right in, I couldn't bear to finish it. It offers a reader like me (female) a rare opportunity to feel what it feels like to be a lost young man (you think this happens all the time in books, but it doesn't). The characters are vivid, the settings brilliant (a passage about jumping while high on mescaline no more so than one about sitting on a barstool watching Saturday night take place) and the whole thing is suffused with the mystery and hopefulness that make life so hard to get on the right side of when you're twenty--no matter what sex you are.
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