Reddit reviews Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War
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a bestselling novel of Vietnam
Not superglue, but has anyone read Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War? In the opening chapters a soldier had a leech crawl up in his penis. Of course as it expanded from the blood it sucked it restricted urination. They eventually had to cut the side of penis to relieve the pressure. The soldier was described as being in a ton of pain. How accurate the event is can be anyone's guess but this will make any guy cringe.
EDIT: It's written by Karl Marlantes
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I think it's fiction btw, but historical fiction and the author is an actual vet.
Dumped from my ~/docs/books.txt file:
Jonathon Stroud - The Bartimaeus Trilogy
John le Carre - Little Drummer Girl
Sloan Wilson - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloan_Wilson
Norman Mailer - The Naked and the Dead
Storm of Steel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_of_Steel
Karl Marlantes - Matterhorn http://www.amazon.com/Matterhorn-Novel-Vietnam-Karl-Marlantes/dp/080211928X
Sharon Kay Penman
Neal Stephenson - Reamde: A Novel http://www.amazon.com/Reamde-Novel-Neal-Stephenson/dp/0061977969
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
1493 by Charles Mann
The Passage by Justin Cronin
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
The Storm of War by Andrew Roberts
The Worst Day by RJ Davin http://www.amazon.com/Worst-Day-RJ-Davin/dp/1921791624/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1324288263&sr=1-7
Starship Troopers
Christopher Stasheff
Books by James Rollins http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Rollins
Noah Gordon
The Physician
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Physician
Books by Sheri Holman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheri_Holman
Books by Barry Eisler http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Eisler
Claire Messud - The Emporer's Children
Norman Rush
Robert Stone
James David Duncan
Cormac McCarthy
Zadie Smith
It's a great book all right. Also read Going After Cacciato.
Plus, some war fiction: From Here to Eternity. Also Matterhorn.
I never considered myself a fan of war literature, but there are some GREAT novels and memoirs about war.
You might want to check out Karl Marlantes' book What It Is Like To Go To War; it explores this line of thinking in more detail. (Marlantes is a Vietnam veteran; the novel he wrote based on his experiences there, Matterhorn, is a modern classic.)
My book of the year: The Passage by Justin Cronin. A couple of other very good books that are also available on the Kindle are Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Good Squad, Emma Donoghue's Room, and Karl Marlantes' Matterhorn.
Matterhorn is not only the best war novel I have ever read, it is one of the best books I have read period.
I'm still haunted by it.