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Title: Lousy book saved by a great movie
Review: One of the few times I'd recommend skipping the book and just watching the movie. The book is so poorly written that it takes having watched the movie or the television show to fill in the gaping holes in the plot and character development. Richard Hooker must have had the good fortune to find a publisher who needed a book but who didn't have an editorial staff. And he was surely blessed by the Almighty that a good screen writer was able to make him rich from what amounts to a rambling series of mildly humorous war stories.
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