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Title: Don't believe the hype. This is trash!
Review: All the hype makes one believe that this is a unique first-person literary account of what it's really like to be a soldier in the Gulf War. In reality it is a trumped-up profane and highly exaggerated load of trash. Anthony Swofford is in dire need of help and it isn't because he served in that war. Making him some sort of after-the-fact hero for writing this tripe will only serve to make him even more sick. I pray that he is an aberration and that most of our soldiers are not godless, profane, psychotics that he portrays himself to be. If most of our soldiers are like him we are in serious trouble as a country. Unfortunately, I believe that the vulgarity and psychotic ramblings of this profane man are the very reasons the 'literary world' has embraced his garbage.
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