I sure am tickled when someone I know gets a good review for their work. Check out Publishers Weekly review of Scott Sparling’s upcoming book, Wire to Wire .
I’ve known Scott Sparling through the Pinewood Table writers. He’s a cool guy and now he’s got a book coming out in June. You can preorder it from your favorite bookstore. I’m looking forward to having it in hand.
Matterhorn, by Karl Marlantes is a book I can’t stop thinking about. Word is it took Mr. Marlantes 30 years to write it and, I’m telling you, it was worth every year. It’s at once a terrible and beautiful story, based much on his own experience as a Marine in the Vietnam war.
The author gives a powerful taste of the tedium, fear, anger, loss, connection, and confrontation with self and humanity that came to him during his early months in Vietnam. It is sometimes hard to read, but impossible to stop because it is that good.
I recommend this book because it is good writing, a powerful story, history revealed, and because, through out the reading, I thought constantly of my uncle, Jim Carlson, who died in Vietnam in 1968.
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