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from baswood

A doorstop (nearly 1000 pages) published in 1951 tells the fictional story from the inside of a number of enlisted men of an infantry division of the United States Army posted in Hawaii in 1941 taking in the attack on Pearl harbour. The author James Jones enlisted in the US army in 1939 at the ag...

from pantopicon

A deeply profound reading experience, and investigation into self and responsibility, and the tropes of alienation that more generally mark post-war American fiction. Jones' characters are stubbornly drawn and confounding. Reading Jones is a reading of one's own stumbling through the illogics of ...

from anneearney

Military families, soldiers, and those they come in contact with on Hawaii right before World War II starts - not my usual reading choice of subject, but I read Kaylee Jones' autobiography and that made me curious about her father's work. The parts describing military life while the men were on d...

from deckehoe

This is a real slow-burner. I read The Thin Red Line a number of years ago and half-expected a dramatic tale of infantrymen with the backdrop of the bombing of Pearl Harbour. However, the first Japanese Zeroes don't show up until the last few chapters and by then you are so invested in the charac...

from DinadansFriend

A very good novel indeed. I am surprised that so few Library Thingers possess a copy. The story of a soldier who wants to do a simple hitch in the army. He falls afoul of military politics, and the various levels of it lead to his tragic death. There are numerous well realized characters and a ge...