After reading "Sand in the Wind" "Fields of Fire" and 20 other books and being a Marine Corps Grunt I thought I knew Vietnam...Until I went there in 2013. The Lurp area would definitely be off limits during the interrogation, and anyway, I was already down at the strip waiting for a helicopter to come and take me out of there. Men on the crews would say that once you’d carried a dead person he would always be there, riding with you. During the early 1980's I became obsessed over the Vietnam war after seeing The Deerhunter for the first time. Dispatches book. .” Once in a while we’d catch a chopper straight into one of the lower hells, but it was a quiet time in the war, mostly it was lz’s and camps, grunts hanging around, faces, stories. August 6th 1991
. Ciotti, Paul. His level of sensitivity and perception must have heightened an experience that would have been brutal for anyone, but we the readers reap the rewards. (“Aw, jungle’s okay. I could also say it is one of the most brilliant books on war I've ever read. Born in Lexington, Kentucky in 1940, he began reporting from Vietnam for, One Month, 20 Days, and a Wake Up: One man's story of what it meant to be a PJ, Life After America: A memoir about the wild and crazy 1960s. I Going out at night the medics gave you pills, Dexedrine breath like dead snakes kept too long in a jar. --Hunter S. Thompson. Start by marking “Dispatches” as Want to Read: Error rating book. You weren’t even here.” There were posh fat air-conditioned camps like comfortable middle-class scenes with the violence tacit, “far away”; camps named for commanders’ wives, LZ Thelma, LZ Betty Lou; number-named hilltops in trouble where I didn’t want to stay; trail, paddy, swamp, deep hairy bush, scrub, swale, village, even city, where the ground couldn’t drink up what the action spilled, it made you careful where you walked. Anyway, I’d save the pills for later, for Saigon and the awful depressions I always had there.
"Herr captures the almost hallucinatory madness of the war," said PW. A friend posted today that Michael Herr just died. It would probably be easier, however, for me to just acknowledge I haven't read many books that have the power, the poetry, the intensity, the vividness, the bathos and the pathos that Herr pushes through every single page of this amazing book. "I knew one 4th division Lurp who took his pills by the fistful, downs from the left pocket of his tiger suit and ups from the right, one to cut the trail for him and the other to send him down it. --Washington Post.
"This is a compelling, truth-telling book with a visceral impact, its images stuck in the mind like shards from a pineapple bomb.". Dispatches was reprinted in 2009 by Everyman's Library as a contemporary classic.
We also knew that for years now there had been no country here but the war. We’d love your help. Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2016.
This book reads so much better when Herr drops the so-hip-it-hurts prose and reverts for the rest of the book to a more gritty take on the whole thing, In fact I'd go as far to say that the rest of the book deserves all the praise it gets. As a technique for staying alive it seemed to make as much sense as anything, given naturally that you were there to begin with and wanted to see it close; it started out sound and straight but it formed a cone as it progressed, because the more you moved the more you saw, the more you saw the more besides death and mutilation you risked, and the more you risked of that the more you would have to let go of one day as a “survivor.” Some of us moved around the war like crazy people until we couldn’t see which way the run was even taking us anymore, only the war all over its surface with occasional, unexpected penetration.
. That map was a marvel, especially now that it wasn’t real anymore. this is a sentence i am totally confused about it: “Didn’t you ever meet a reporter before?” I asked him. Herr was in Vietnam as an Esquire correspondent for two years, a period that included the Tet offensive in 1968. Page liked to augment his field gear with freak paraphernalia, scarves and beads, plus he was English, guys would stare at him like he’d just come down off a wall on Mars. In most cases, items shipped from Amazon.com may be returned for a full refund. After visiting, reading more I understand it...but I still shake my head at the Washington policy makers, The military/Industrial Complex that sent us there...anyone with a tiny bit of history and looked at the terrain knew this war was not winnable-unless the USA invaded the north and killed people wholesale.
Dispatches is a New Journalism book by Michael Herr that describes the author's experiences in Vietnam as a war correspondent for Esquire magazine. "A frank, real, memoir."
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