These Heroic, Happy Dead : Stories

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The effects of war are unpredictable and ever-reaching. Luke Mogulson's These Heroic, Happy Dead, a collection of modern war-related short stories, provides unsettling, haunting glimpses into the lives of veterans suffering from varying degrees of PTSD. Like Tim O'Brien's epic Vietnam war novel T...

from Sean191

This was a great read. In accolades for this book, it was compared to The Things They Carry and I think that's an accurate comparison with one exception - the stories in These Heroic are all post-war (with an occasional flashback. Characters are well-developed and the writing is topnotch. Highly ...

from HighCountry

I received this book as an Early Reviewer. I've noticed that some of the reviews mention that the author keeps the reader at arms length and seem to think that's a downside of this collection. I completely disagree. I felt that the distance was as familiar as the distance one finds from a loved o...

from fields.steph

If you reach for this book with any romanticized views of the military, just put the book back down and walk away. These tangentially connected stories, while hardly gory or gruesome in an obvious blood and gore kind of way, are heart-wrenching and incredibly sad. They show just how much human da...

from gpaisley

The back-cover comparisons to Tim O'Brien are not only premature, but are also off-target. While the premise of These Heroic, Happy Dead, a collection of sometimes-connected short stories sounded interesting, its execution left much to be desired. The ravages of war on men--even years after, and ...