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Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War
Has anyone read Karl Marlantes' novel, Matterhorn?
It's getting very good reviews across the board. Author Mark Bowden (Blackhawk Down, The Best Game Ever, Bringing the Heat) says, "Matterhorn is a great novel. There have been some very good novels about the Vietnam War, but this is the first great one, and I doubt it will ever be surpassed. Karl Marlantes overlooks no part of the experience, large or small ... Here is story-telling so authentic, so moving and so intense, so relentlessly dramatic, that there were times I wasn’t sure I could stand to turn the page. As with the best fiction, I was sad to reach the end."
It's a 600-pager, a great one for a long plane trip, which I have coming up. I'll read nearly anything about the Vietnam War and plan to read it. Just wanted the opinions of the guys who were there.
Thanks,
Susan
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