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What does /lit/ think of this?

I actually loved it, but I'm a sucker for vietnam literature.

>> No.3701761

>>3701743

I don't like very much literature written by baby killers. So, nope, I did not like it.

>> No.3701911

>>3701743
Politics aside, the tone is too whiny.

>> No.3701967
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3701967

>>3701911
my buddies died face down in the dirt so that you could sit on your computer and enjoy posting on your anime message board

>> No.3701993

>>3701967

Yeah, I watched the Big Lebowksi too.

I shit on your buddies.

>> No.3702057
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3702057

>>3701993

careful, that's a lot of edge you've got there.

>> No.3702066

>>3701761
This. Soldiers are scum.

>> No.3702088

>>3702057

I also shit on you.

>> No.3702097

>>3702088
nice dubs

>> No.3702150

O'brien writes pretty beautifully about innards hanging from tree branches. One of my favorite books.

>> No.3702162

>>3701967
They were lucky.

My buddies died face up drowning in their own blood.

You young lucky cunts today.

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3702224

>>3702150
seconded

>> No.3702318
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3702318

Hey, I didn't think this would be enough for my own thread, so I'll just put it here.

I want to get a book for my friend. He loves Hemingway, Raymond Carver, and Tim O'Brien. So, you know, really short sentence structure focused around men thinking about life.

I want to get him something new to read, similar to these authors. What would you guys recommend?

>> No.3702349
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3702349

>>3702097

Indeed.

>> No.3702350

matterhorn or go home

>> No.3703691

>>3701743
I thought it was pretty good, but it's been a few years since I read it and the last time I read any Vietnam war literature before that was when I was in middle school.

>>3702150
I do remember that scene, and it was pretty good.

>> No.3705112

>>3701761
Can I shave with an edge like that?

>> No.3705119

Read it in high school. Was pretty good especially when it deliberately forsakes the grim-and-gritty in favor of the supernally or infernally absurd. The Indian guy sinking into the field of shit is an amazing sequence.

>> No.3705140

>>3705112

Sure. Just be careful to hurt your labia when doing it.

>> No.3705169

>>3705140
#rekt

>> No.3705183

>>3702318
Try proust

>> No.3705213

>>3705140
I hurt ur mums labia m8

>> No.3705242

>>3705213

I know, kid. At least she was not defeated and is now 6 feet underground in Hanoi.

>> No.3705278

>>3702318
Conan the Barbarian by Robert E. Howard.

>> No.3705282

I really liked it actually, only read it once years ago back in high school, but there were a number of things about that have stuck with me. Particularly the part where Kiowa gets shot and drowns in the flooded rice paddy because they couldn't get to him in time. ;_;

>> No.3705285

>>3705242

But...


She was..


DUN DUN DUN

>> No.3705298
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3705298

Was thinking of reading the Wendy's Value menu or two sing panel cartoons from an newpaper printed in the 90's.
Which should I read first?
pic related. It's the value menu, not the cartoons.

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3705307

Here are the two cartoons from a 20 year old newspaper

>> No.3705309

I was thnking about reading the one on the left. But then...Dennis the Menace, y'know?