This is my all time favorite book. In AP English in high school, we got to pick the final book we read for class and this is the one I picked at random. I wanted a war story and this is one that came up on the computer search of our library. And oh boy, it is quite the war story. Turns out we had actually read one chapter of the book several years earlier in another English class and it had stuck with me for years, so I was blown away when I got to that chapter again (it’s the one where he was telling his son a war story about his time on ambush where he killed a guy with a grenade. I still distinctly remember the line about how it blew a “star shaped hole” in the guy’s head).
If you liked this book, especially the whole blending of truth and fiction, then please read some of his other books! Going After Cacciato is really trippy but such a good story. I would say it’s even closer to Slaughterhouse 5, just set in Vietnam. "In Lake Of The Woods* is also good, though a bit more grounded and a very different story than the other two books.
This is my all time favorite book. In AP English in high school, we got to pick the final book we read for class and this is the one I picked at random. I wanted a war story and this is one that came up on the computer search of our library. And oh boy, it is quite the war story. Turns out we had actually read one chapter of the book several years earlier in another English class and it had stuck with me for years, so I was blown away when I got to that chapter again (it’s the one where he was telling his son a war story about his time on ambush where he killed a guy with a grenade. I still distinctly remember the line about how it blew a “star shaped hole” in the guy’s head).
If you liked this book, especially the whole blending of truth and fiction, then please read some of his other books! Going After Cacciato is really trippy but such a good story. I would say it’s even closer to Slaughterhouse 5, just set in Vietnam. "In Lake Of The Woods* is also good, though a bit more grounded and a very different story than the other two books.