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Title: This won the national book award?
Review: I may be completely missing the point of this novel, but I found it to be completely devoid of any coherent observations of any culture or "counter-culture" or, for that matter, anything beyond the method the protagonists used to get high on each different page. I might have been able to give this book a higher rating, despite its lack of commentary, social or otherwise, were it not for the fact that plot dragged along slowly, causing me to wonder if it would ever end... Perhaps this novel would have been better off at the novella length, perhaps not. I have the utmost repsect for Robert Stone and have, in fact, thoroughly enjoyed A Hall of Mirrors and Children of Light, but I seem truly to have missed the point of Dog Soldier
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