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Fates Will Find Their Way
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Hannah Pittard
John Coyle
, April 18, 2011
Surprised to see only two reviews of this Indiespensibel title. I don't often post reviews, but I am making an exception here because of the range of other reviews--1 or 5 star. On the surface, this is a very well written book with a captivating narrative about a group of friends and neighbors growing up viewed through and around the lens of a missing girl from the neighborhood. Her disappearance has in many ways become a reference point for many of the characters, defining their lives before she went missing and then becoming a comparison as they grow older. A multi person narrative, with passages interspersed showing what the missing girl's life has become. Are they fact? Speculation? Just the imaginings of her friends as they try to compare their lives with what hers must/would have been? Just asking the question should be enough to make you want to find out. I have been an Indiespensible subscriber from the beginning and this is one of my top 5 favorites so far.
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Matterhorn A Novel of the Vietnam War
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Karl Marlantes
John Coyle
, January 01, 2011
My absolute favorite book of 2010, thank you indiespensibles. A very strong military book that never loses focus on the soldiers. Seemed a little intimidating when it opened with a detailed org chart for the company including call signs and command structure. However, ignore it and jump in to feel these soldiers lives. A glossary is at the end for anyone ho is completely new to military movies and books. However, it voids vein too wonky or jargony. Captures the pointless and often brutal effect on the individual soldiers of afterthought decisions by leaders big and small with delusions of grandeur. Not to reveal much of the story but much of the action involves taking, fortifying, the abandoning the hill called Matterhorn, then having to tak it again with the enemy occupying the fortifications. Similarly pointless and soul wearing is reading a squad suffering in te jungle without supplies and without food simply because a commanding officer dd not want to admit that he had drunk too much and forgot to resuming his troops. When he remembered, it was a better career mve for him to let them nearly waste away than to admit his mistake. A must read book. I have bought it for three people as a gift ad all have loved it. I have a hard time imagining me reading another military novel without finding it badly lacking for the foreseeable future, which is probably the best praise I can think of. It makes me wish that the publisher would release the original cut rumored to be another thousand pages!
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