Nonfiction Books Thread
I'm just about done with Michael Herr's Dispatches), a war correspondent's view of Vietnam circa the Tet Offensive.
It's about the opposite of objective journalism: first-person, tightly focused, episodic, vividly emotional and impressionistic. And it does that very well. I'm getting the feeling that it might have been responsible for the particular shade of hellish Kafkaesque insanity that we associate with the Vietnam War after films like Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket; in fact several episodes and characters seem to have been composited into thos...
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