Currently reading Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes - and it's simply riveting. Not at all the sort of book I normally read. Hard core Vietnam War novel, but I guess I knew just enough guys who served over there that I find the detail and the graphic descriptions of how they lived (and how they were jerked over by the officers and the politics) to make for a great novel. This isn't Rambo stuff - it's real people caught up in history and politics and vaguely surreal situations.
Now I hear Marlantes has a new, non-fiction book out where he expounds a bit on one of the events from Matterhorn that was based on his personal experience. Which kind of explains why the novel is such a gripping read.
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