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Title: Steve McQueen Would Be Proud by Steve Mitchell ISBN: 1401030378 Publisher: Xlibris Corporation Pub. Date: December, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.99

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Average Customer Rating: 5

Rating: 5
Summary: From an earlier generation army-type
Comment: Anyone who has been in the military will love this book. It shows the maturation process that occurs in any of the services. The writing style is excellent. A couple of proof reading mistakes, but nothing serious to detract from the total package that Steve has presented. His character development is thorough and insightful. I knew the same types in WWII army. I especially liked Nettles, the medic who was a bible-thumper and became disappointed in God when he got a dear john letter. Fatty Fitzgerald was a classical lifetime sailor. Buy the book and relive your youth!!

Rating: 5
Summary: Steve McQueen Would be Proud
Comment: There is no logical reason why I should have enjoyed this book, but I loved it. I am an elderly woman who has no experience with ships or the Navy; yet I could hardly put it down. I opened it at random and nearly fell over laughing as I read about this green, inexperienced, virginal, just-out-of-high-school swabbie who is trying to light his first cigarette and having no success. Then I read Chapter 12 which was available on the net that describes his first night on the town and laughed aloud at his bumbling, funbling initial attempt with a prostitute. Finally, his unbelievable experiences on latrine duty alone are worth the price of the book. But it has more than humor: you will find disparate characters, love, hate, loyalty, betrayal, romance, friendship, jealousy, something for everyone. Oh yes, and a smattering of sex. Either Mr. Mitchell has a colorful imagination or he has included a lot of biographical material in this book. Probably both!! Even the cover photograph is memorable. I heartily recommend this tale of a young man coming of age in the Navy and hope this is just the first of many novels Steve Mitchell writes.

Rating: 5
Summary: This story would make a great movie!
Comment: I used to send cards, letters and homemade cookies to some guys during the Vietnam War but I had no idea what they were really going through. This book tells all about regular (and not so regular!) guys in the Navy in a poignant, insightful and humorous way. Sometimes the technical stuff is way over my head but people, places and things are presented in such a descriptive manner that I could easily imagine this story as a great movie.