Fatal Light is a book that brings to light the confuted experiences of war. A young eighteen year old draftee finds himself in Vietnam surrounded by beauty and death at the same time. He leaves behind a football scholarship to serve his country in an unpopular war. His father speaks of war as if it’s a fun and manly thing to take a part in. I think the author does a great job of expressing this through short vignettes that are easy to digest one at a time. I took several weeks to finish this book and each time I picked it back up it was like I didn’t miss a beat. This book might as realistically represent the feelings and experiences of an individual soldier in Vietnam as any book I’ve ever read. It’s not the best Vietnam war novel I’ve read. History, especially Vietnam war history buffs will not find elaborate details but they will come to understand the narrator.
June 1, 2009...2:58 am
Review: Fatal Light by Richard Currey
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June 3, 2009 at 3:22 pm
I read this a few months ago, and had much the same reaction to it as you did. I found it a bit scant on the war details, but overall it was a good story.