When I borrowed this book, I wasn't even sure I'd like it - but a third of the way in, I bought it. I knew I'd want to revisit this book again, and also share it with my spouse.
This book spans my life: I remember Jim Morrison appearing on the music scene, becoming a big hit with the rest of the Doors, and then watching him slide away in drug abuse.
I remember sweating out the Vietnam draft lotteries, fearing my brother might get "unlucky."
I remember the laughing, funny boys who used to hang around our house with my older brother: working on cars and rebuilding their engines, and when it got too dark to do that, smoking a quick joint and then playing ping pong in the basement.
I remember seeing some of them off to their tours of duty: some volunteers, others drafted. And I remember seeing them come home: some still physically whole, others not. ALL were altered. That is what war does to the soul.
So reading this book took me back to my past in an incredibly personal and profound way: re-awakening memories: some very happy, and many others I'd worked hard to bury and forget. I bought the book because I knew I'd have to let this simmer in my brain for a while, and then go back and read it again.....
The only negative thing I can say about this book is not a ding on the book itself , but rather on a very glaring error or typo: the name of JFK's assassin was Lee Harvey OSWALD, NOT Lee Harvey OSWALT. I'm quite surprised this type-setting error, or actual error, made it into the final book. I guess proof-reading is becoming a lost art.
That aside, this is the very best book I've read in a very long time.
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