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ITT: We discuss war novels. Your favourite, recommend, etc.

Dumping covers to start discussion.

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Almost finished this. I don't especially like military novels, fiction or nonfic, but this one is excellent. I live somewhat near Gettysburg and am looking forward to visiting it in the next few weeks.

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>> No.5057193

>>5057185

Looks good, I'll check it out. Got to be honest though I prefer primary source war novels.

>> No.5057199

King Rat is my all time favorite war novel. The author really knows his shit but there's still alot of meat to the novel as well. The Naked and the Dead wasn't bad either.

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>> No.5057206

Jüngers In Stahlgewittern is excellent.

>> No.5057218

I'm looking for more foriegn war novels, i.e. not written by Americans. I haven't read All Quiet, anything else?

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>>5057179

>> No.5057225

>>5057199

I'll check those out. I only know King Rat as a Modest Mouse song.

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>> No.5057234

>>5057222

Reading this now, that edition too. I'm about 120 pages in and have decided I'll give up at the end of part one.

>> No.5057240

>>5057234
It gets easier to read after part one, The plot (Slothrop's anyway) starts to pick up speed in the second part.

>> No.5057247

>>5057240

That's good to know. If I made it through Infinite Jest I can make it through this.

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>> No.5057311

>>5057234
Go to page 139, if you see the sentence "your goal in these dreams is often to pens" you have a broken copy <3

>> No.5057313

>>5057311
Task* sorry, but if you see the word "pens" then yeah.

>> No.5057318

>>5057311
How's that?

>> No.5057398

>>5057318
Th sentence is supposed to read in a way that makes sense. I'm at work but you can look it up if you search the book title and printing errors. There may or may not be more errors.

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>>5057230
>I channel my war-related grief into a story about a young boy losing his innocence from time to time

>> No.5057675

Not a fan of war as a setting for a novel. I guess I would have to say GR is my favorite, because the plot has little to do with war.