Title: Just not any resemblance to the Vietnam War
Product review: I realize this book received rave reviews, and I also realize I'm biased due to my own war experience as an infantry soldier in Vietnam. While Tim O'Brien is a very gifted writer, I feel the attention paid to this work, especially in the many school systems, is tremendously overblown. The book does not really teach anything about a real war experience to the younger generation, nor to anyone who hasn't experienced battlefield conditions.War novels with some basis in fact are very appropriate, but those with totally fictitious events don't meet my expectations. Every book about war need not be filled with battle documentation, but the tales told here are in my words "a bit off the wall."Dave Simmons - Author"Our Turn to Serve - An Army Veteran's Memoir of the Vietnam War"
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