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Lädt ... Odyssey: 1970von John W. Cassell
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Member Giveaways geschrieben. Simply put I enjoyed the story. I recommend it to anyone interested in the Viet-Nam era in America. John Cassell is a very good story teller. My own age-of-growing-up is nearly the same as his. He manages to convey the topsy-turvy period in which corporate and political greed managed to turn American mores on their collective head. Nothing was untouched and he manages to convey that. People dispared and became defensive/aggressive. "Fight or flight was more a reality than just behavioral jargon. Cassell manages to illustrate this. He successfully recreates the drama of Kent State, San Francisco, thumbing rides and tangles with authority. His research seems impeccable. One not a young adult in 1970 may have difficulty with the veracity of that aspect of the story, which while possible begins to distract the critical reader of any other age with its implausibility. His story's hero has more adventures in a year than James Bond in a movie. The book had one very distracting flaw. It needed a proofreader, editor or publisher who read it before going to print! Had the story not been so accurate, it may not have been read to completion. Many places the reader is distracted trying to unravel an unfamiliar word only to realize the typesetter left off a space between the two intended ones. In a few places a word seemed simply dropped from a sentence. The author's efforts at writing were cheated of their full effect by this. I had to work hard at times to keep this from overshadowing the story. Zeige 4 von 4 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
The year is 1970¿It is a turbulent, often violent, yet idealistic time. Over a third of a million American young people are serving in Vietnam. The various segments that compose American society peer distrustfully at one another across barricades drawn by age, race, social class, and wealth. One of the highest of these barricades is that drawn by age. A military incursion into Cambodia on April 30 touches off violent riots throughout the nation that eventually force over five hundred institutions of higher learning to shut down early for the summer. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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I wish I'd read Crossroads: 1969, the first book in the Trilogy, before this one; I'm sure it would have helped me understand Cassell's mindset, and probably made me more sympathetic towards the character early on.
Yes, there were some proofing issues, but I didn't find them distracting - I see worse in the newspaper every day. ( )