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Title: The Vietnam Reader : The Definitive Collection of Fiction and Nonfiction on the War by Stewart O'Nan ISBN: 0-385-49118-2 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 20 October, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: some people need to re-evaluate
Comment: The title says it all: FICTION and NON FICTION and if you read the intro to this book it says that O'Nan is a teacher of Vietnam LITERATURE not history. The selections in the book are examples of popular vietnam some are fiction. The picture of the little girl and the napalm bombing is one of the most famous pictures concerning the war.
I think this book is a great overview of vietnam era literature and reccommend it to anyone interested in vietnam lit. It also contains photos, poetry, song lyrics ( remember country joe and the fish?), and commentary on several movies. it is also seperated into categories like the first major wave of work that came towards the end of the war and the second major wave of work which can about a decade after the war which gives a nice chronological view.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent review of Vietnam literature
Comment: ... O'Nan has put together some of the best literature written by Americans about the Vietnam War since the late '60s. A quick look at the table of contents should put anyone's doubts to rest--especially since O'Nan has included a generous amount of space to Tim O'Brien, certainly the finest American writer about the Vietnam War. I had two problems with this book, besides the fact that this should be available in hardback. 1) O'Nan has failed to include anything from Thom Jones's book "The Pugilist at Rest"--an excellent writer, close on O'Brien's tail in terms of sheer storytelling. 2) This book includes nothing by Vietnamese writers--which I find a huge oversight...
This book does not pretend to be history...
Rating: 1
Summary: A Sorry Fiction Masquerading As "History"
Comment: This book is an unadulterated piece of CR--!! The author made no attempt to cross-check the material he put into it, and re-printed a large number of Vietnam War Myths, - the girl in the napalm strike, the 19 year old casualty, and many others, - as facts. If he is really teaching our youth the "history" of the Vietnam War using this tripe he should be called up before an academic review board and disciplined for sloppy research and distortion of the Nation's real effort in Southeast Asia.
Do yourself a favor and read a "real" book about the Vietnam War, one such as Geunter Lewy's "America in Vietnam", or Andrew Krepinevich's "The Army and Vietnam", if you are stuck with this one, read Burkett and Whitley's "Stolen Valor" in order to sort out the real from the fanciful.
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Title: Vietnam: A History by Stanley Karnow ISBN: 0140265473 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: June, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Dispatches by Michael Herr ISBN: 0679735259 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 06 August, 1991 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Things They Carried by TIM O'BRIEN ISBN: 0767902890 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 29 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Vietnam War: In American Stories, Songs, and Poems by H. Bruce Franklin ISBN: 0312115520 Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's Pub. Date: January, 1996 List Price(USD): $23.45 |
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Title: America's War in Vietnam: A Short Narrative History by Larry H. Addington ISBN: 0253213606 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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