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Title: The Aviators by W. E. B. Griffin ISBN: 0-515-10053-6 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: May, 1989 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.88 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great War Story
Comment: Like all WEB GRiffin's books, this one combines humor, personality studies, and adventure. I wish I had the whole series. He is great.
Rating: 2
Summary: The Aviators doesn¿t get off the ground
Comment: The Aviators was my first exposure to Griffin and what a disappointment! I had been led to believe that Griffin's novels were action packed, battle filled and that Griffin was a latter day Forester or MacLean. Perhaps he is in other novels but this one proceeded like a made-for-TV prime time soap.
The action starts in Vietnam in 1963. Our hero is wounded in a bungled operation and returns to the U.S. to become an aide-de-camp for one year. During the year and change he distinguishes himself and falls for the widow of a friend. He and his CO also must establish the viability of airmobile infantry, demonstrating that army helicopter pilots can transfer large units. There is little action and the story line is predictable. Subplots are predictable as well.
In fairness to Griffin, I listened to an abridged audiotape and it might have been poorly abridged. However, I didn't get the sense that there was an awful lot here to begin with. Gerald McRaney's clipped reading doesn't help it either.
Rating: 2
Summary: "General Hospital" in Army green
Comment: This is a weak series of books, as far as war novels go. They're more like an ongoing soap opera than gritty war drama (think "General Hospital" as a novel, only set between 1945-1970 and revolving around the Army instead of Port Charles.) The characters are given plenty of time to evolve, and some do (Lowell, in particular.) But it all seems too phony. A good war novel should have some truth in it, but it is in short supply with these books.
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Title: The Majors by W. E. B. Griffin ISBN: 0515089958 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: August, 1991 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Captains: Brotherhood of War by W. E. B. Griffin ISBN: 0515091383 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: October, 1994 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Lieutenants by W. E. B. Griffin ISBN: 0515090212 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: September, 1991 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Close Combat by W. E. B. Griffin ISBN: 0515112690 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: March, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Counterattack (The Corps Book 3) by W. E. B. Griffin ISBN: 0515104175 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: September, 1990 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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