Title: Brilliant, but ponderous
Product review: I read this book immediately after having read O'Brien's later Vietnam novel The Things They Carried, which I also highly recommend.The story is gripping, the characters well-drawn, and the descriptions of jungle warfare, the endless drudgery and fearful monotony of the soldier's day-to-day lives, and the adventures they endure make for powerful and unputdownable reading; however I was left wondering what was real and what was only imagined.Highly recommended, yet not for those who like their plots neatly tied together.
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