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Book Review of Jarhead : A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles

Jarhead : A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
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Helpful Score: 3


Like the experience of war that Anthony Swofford describes, this book is thrilling, funny, messy, both well and poorly done, capable of insight as well as surprising lapses of judgement, fascinating, and ultimately anti-climactic.

It has many faults, but never was I disappointed to have been reading, and always I wanted to continue, so I could see what would happen.