- Mass Market Paperback: 416 pages
- Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group; Reprint edition (1 Jun 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0553580876
- ISBN-13: 978-0553580877
- Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 1.3 x 17.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 622,799 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Censured by some critics for its brutality but heralded by others as a modern-day classic, Sympathy for the Devil is a terrifying, intoxicating journey through the violence, madness, and insane beauty of battle. It traces the story of a hardened Green Beret named Hanson, a college student who goes to war with a book of Yeats's poetry in his pocket and discovers the savagery within himself.
In this extraordinary novel, we follow Hanson through two tours of duty and a bitter attempt to live as a civilian in between. At one with the lush and dangerous world around him in Vietnam, Hanson is doomed to survive the landscape of devastation he encounters. Sympathy for the Devil contains some of the most vivid, finely etched prose ever written about the actual process of war--from firing a weapon for the first time in battle to the moment a young man knows that he has entered a living hell and found a home....
In this extraordinary novel, we follow Hanson through two tours of duty and a bitter attempt to live as a civilian in between. At one with the lush and dangerous world around him in Vietnam, Hanson is doomed to survive the landscape of devastation he encounters. Sympathy for the Devil contains some of the most vivid, finely etched prose ever written about the actual process of war--from firing a weapon for the first time in battle to the moment a young man knows that he has entered a living hell and found a home....
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Very good book; obvious the author has knowledge and probably was there. Not highly technical and quite humourous in places. This probably doesn't sound like a great review coming up but I love this book and read it over at least once a year, not because of the military/macho stuff, but because the main characters are people that I can identify with and despite reading once a year, I still find snippets I have missed and can still have a laugh and joke with them.
Can I recommend this book? You bet! I'd recommend on two seperate levels: for servicemen and women as it reminds you of what we left behind.
I'd recommend anyone else to read it for an insight into what "serving" is like; especially when the bullets start flying.
A great book, and should be on the reading lists in schools, maybe we'd have less wars?
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a fantastic book! The characters are so REAL! This really is one of those books you have to start first thing in the morning to be sure that you'll finish it the same day! As i said, the chaacterisation is truly excellent, the settings so real you can almost see the jungle. You end up really feeling for the main character, loving his friends and hating his enemies and you get a feel for how the grunts must have felt when they were alienised on return to the USA. I lent this book to a friend and never got it back! An excellent read.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I read Night Dogs first, which I think is really the wrong order. This is good solid stuff, does not fixate on the subject matter too much (Vietnam). I'm trying to get hold of his short stories now. I hope he writes more novels, and they are as good as this. Will we ever see them on the big screen? Maybe when Hollywood thinks Vietnam is a sexy subject again.
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