Newsday review of AtD

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Littell typed up notes over five years in Englais

On 11/18/06, pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> For me, it's the disarmingly friendly way Aue comes on
> from the start, although that set bells ringing, too,
> the conviction he expresses that he and I, the reader,
> are on par morally. There's a little delay before the
> trick is apparent (I haven't actually committed any
> war atrocities, for starters, although it is true that
> I fantasized about fragging a certain platoon leader
> once in the sometimes tense environment of S. Korea
> just outside the DMZ, in '73), but it was enough of a
> gap for me to start questioning my own knee-jerk
> "You're not one of us, buddy, you're a monster"; the
> voice pulled me right in.
>
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