/lit/ - Literature

>>12072914
We did

Try “The Things They Carried”

>>12072942
Oh I feel stupid, I forgot this existed.

>>12072914
read It Ain't Me

>>12072914
>blocks your path

Might not be great literature, but "Dispatches" has some evocative descriptions and anecdotes. Captures the spirit really well imo

defeat makes for better literature. think of the south. but boomers were and are too psychologically fragile to deal with it meaningfully in art.

Don't know if you'd call it 'literature' but it's one helluva good book.

>>12072914
Read Forever War

>>12072942
I lost my desire to finish this book when I learned that it was fiction. Even written by a real Vietnam war veteran, it soured my experience.

>>12072914
It's because there could be no more poetry after Auschwitz you faggot retard

it wasn't a world war
plus it divided the country
a lot of good music came from it though

>>12072914

>>12073836
This

The Forever War is an allegory for the Vietnam War, and it’s brilliant.

Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes

>>12074667
This.

>>12074667
came here to post this

>>12072914
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h35NE0cGqOc

I don't know but I want to read an apocalypse now novelisation by Cormac McCarthy

We got apocalypse now
What else do you want?

I think that was the era when, instead of books, movies became the medium to express the sentiments of the time. I think that's why we have so many films of that time period.

>>12074667
Nothing near the excitement and quality of 13th Valley. I've read them both.
Also, try 'Chickenhawk' by Robert Mason for some Huey chopper thrills. Marlantes just isn't an exciting writer.

>>12072914
Because unlike the world wars none of the intelligent people participated in this foolish war.

>>12074775
Just list the books she talks about please.

>>12072914
the quiet american is sorta about the vietnam war

>>12074447
somebody post the pasta

>>12075756

Air America is great as well as Chickenhawk.

Did you ever read Mason's book about his life after returning?

>>12072914
Dispatches by Michael Herr. Not "great", but enjoyable read nonetheless.

>>12072914
>like we did from other wars
point to me the great literature from the Korean War, WW2, Afghanistan, Iraqi Wars, Indian Wars (genocide), 1812, Spanish-American war, Mexican American War, King Philips' War, French and Indian War, Barbary Wars, Grenada, Philippine American-War, etc.
It seems to me the only wars that generated good American literature was WW1, The Civil War, and the Revolution.

>>12076081
>WW2
heller and salinger

muh jews

that was good enough

>>12076081
>It seems to me the only wars that generated good American literature was WW1
Farewell to Arms doesn't count

Because it takes time for great books to be identified. That being said, lots of good authors were Vietnam vets. In my American high school, my English teacher dedicated a whole month to Vietnam war literature. Maybe the good war stuff doesn’t get much exposure outside of the states.

>>12076361
Post unknown recommends

>>12074787
>an apocalypse now novelisation
uh


anon

>>12072942
One of the few books I fondly remember from high school English 101

can you really turn napalming rice farmers and getting the clap from a Saigon hooker into great literature?

>>12074445
>he believes in a true war story

>>12074445
The last story in the collection elaborates on why he made it fictional and how he sees the book itself
Kind of like a wartime Big Fish

>>12072914

>Great literature

>Americans

Pick one

>>12076081
I actually can't think of any good Revolutionary War books, and most Civil War books I've heard of were much later accounts of "brothers vs brothers abloobloo" YA by people who had never seen a gun in their lives