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World Without Pain: The Story of a Search
Adriana’s Family
The Woman Who Fell Backwards and Other Stories
Apocalypse Bluff and Other Stories
The Senescent Nomad Hits the Road
Invasive Procedures: Stories
Heroes and Other Illusions: Stories
Bedlam Battle: An Omnibus of the One Thousand Series
After the Fireflood
Caliban’s Children
The Fantasy Book Murders
Opting Out and Other Departures
Sunflower: A Novel
America Redux: Impressions of the United States After Thirty-Five Years Abroad
Fear or Be Feared: Fantasies
Writing as a Metaphysical Experience
Reviews and Reflections on Books, Literature, and Writing
The One Thousand: A Novella
The One Thousand: Book Two: Team of Seven
The One Thousand: Book Three: Black Magic Bus
The One Thousand: Book Four: Deconstructing the Nightmare
After the Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Memoir of Greece
The Misadventures of Mama Kitchen: A Novel
Dark Mirrors: Dystopian Tales
Love Children: A Novel
Painsharing and Other Stories
The Dragon Ticket and Other Stories
Tag Archives: Vietnam War
Book Review: The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui
It’s interesting that I came across this graphic memoir, The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui, shortly after reading George Takei’s graphic memoir They Called Us Enemy. The authors of both books are Asian Americans, and both books deal … Continue reading
Book Review: The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
I have a confession to make. I haven’t read a lot of the classics of science fiction. Maybe I should have, but I haven’t yet. There are too many other things that catch my attention. I generally alternate between fiction … Continue reading
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Tagged Joe Haldeman, military science fiction, The Forever War, Vietnam War
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Book Review: The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
I had forgotten the joys of perusing books in libraries, but my present inability to afford to buy books has brought it back. I’ve found a number of quality books I would have never thought of reading, among them this … Continue reading
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Tagged Good Morning Vietnam, Jack London, The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien, Vietnam, Vietnam War
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Book Review: Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties by Robert Stone
This is a re-read, actually. I read this book several years ago, possibly around the time I was writing “The Misadventures of Mama Kitchen,” my novel about a hippy girl’s adventures in the sixties in a wilderness commune, Haight/Ashbury, and … Continue reading
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Tagged hippy, Ken Kesey, Prime Green, psychedelics, Robert Stone, San Francisco Bay Area, sixties, Vietnam War
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Book Review: The Powers That Be by David Halberstam; Part Two: Journalism During the Vietnam War
A large section of “The Powers That Be” is taken up with describing journalistic coverage of the Vietnam War, and the contrast between how the war was perceived by the correspondents there on the field and how it was presented … Continue reading
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Tagged David Halberstam, journalism, media, The Powers That Be, Vietnam War, Walter Cronkite
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Book Review: Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall
Even more than the Korean War, the Vietnam War defined the political, cultural, sociological, and diplomatic landscape of America in the second half of the twentieth century. I grew up in its shadow, as anti-war protests enflamed college campuses and … Continue reading
Book Review: Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes
The Vietnam War was the defining war for my generation, just as the Mideast wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are for the present generation. There are differences, of course. Young people today do not feel as threatened by the current … Continue reading