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Jones, James The Thin Red Line
Delta February 9, 199 0-385-32408-1 / 9780385324083 Paperback Good
"When compared to the fact that he might very well be dead by this time tom orrow, whether he was courageous or not today was pointless, empty. When co mpared to the fact that he might be dead tomorrow, everything was pointless . Life was pointless. Whether he looked at a tree or not was pointless. It just didn't make any difference. It was pointless to the tree, it was point less to every man in his outfit, pointless to everybody in the whole world. Who cared? It was not pointless only to him; and when he was dead, when he ceased to exist, it would be pointless to him too. More important: Not onl y would it be pointless, it would have been pointless, all along." Such is the ultimate significance of war in The Thin Red Line (1962), James Jones's fictional account of the battle between American and Japanese troo ps on the island of Guadalcanal. The narrative shifts effortlessly among mu ltiple viewpoints within C-for-Charlie Company, from commanding officer Cap t. James Stein, his psychotic first sergeant Eddie Welsh, and the young pri vates they send into battle. The descriptions of combat conditions--and the mental states it induces--are unflinchingly realistic, including the dialo g (in which a certain word Norman Mailer rendered as "fug" 15 years earlier in The Naked and the Dead appears properly spelled on numerous occasions). This is more than a classic of combat fiction; it is one of the most signi ficant explorations of male identity in American literature, establishing J ones as a novelist of the caliber of Herman Melville and Stephen Crane. Amazon.com Audiobook Review An old Midwestern saying goes, "There's only a thin re
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