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Title: Pretentious and juvenile
Review: I bought this book and was hooked in the first page. Unfortunately, it was all downhill from there. You never get to the fighting, since he didn't do any. He trained to be a killer and never took a shot; just wept over dead Iraqis. This guy probably took a lot of heat from real Marines, since they don't tolerate whiners who think the're better than their rank. And he didn't measure up to his. (Oh, my -- are you and your broken, drunken buddies going to look me up and beat on me for "a day or an hour or a lifetime.") This guy is a disappointment to the Iowa Writers program as well as to the Marine Corps.
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