Title: War is hell
Product review: War is not a pretty thing. You will not find butterflies and flowers along the shores of the overflowing Song Tra Bong. You will find an overwhelming stench of excrement and deep, sucking mud that pulls a soldier to his death.There is not much delight to be found in the pages of Tim O'Brien's "work of fiction" based on the Vietnam War, but there is much insight to be gained. He eschews pure chronological narrative in favor of short blasts of horrifying and mesmerizing prose.Many wounds. Much death. The callous veneer a soldier in combat surrounded by senseless killing must adopt. A dead body is to be marveled at, used as a prop, ignored, gathered up, joked about, kicked, revered.There is no single way a soldier will react to his fate -- the fate that put him in harm's way, to kill or be killed. There is no collective conscious. And that concept is captured brilliantly. War is hell.
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