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Title: highly disappointed
Review: Seeing how this book is becoming a movie, i was hoping that it would rank along the lines of Black Hawk Down. I was expecting detailed insight on the Gulf War/Desert Storm, and true opinions from a soldier, the eye witness of the war. Instead the book turned out to be a novel of the soldier's confusing thoughts spilled on paper. Not only was it overly perverse, there was no plot and no flow to the story. I'm sure the perverseness is what some people think as "hard core truth", in my opinion, it was just a waste of ink. Anthony Swofford's stories did not tell me anything of importance other than what messed up thoughts and going ons were happening to him and his fellow soldiers. I was completely disappointed. For anyone who's reading this review, and thinking of reading Jarhead, i say go and read Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden instead, it will be a better use of your time
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