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Having read Dispatches, it is difficult to convey the impact of total experience as all the facades of patriotism, heroism, and the whole colossal fraud of American intervention fall away to the bare bones of fear, war, and death. -- William S. Burroughs, American writer, artist, and primary figure of the Beat Generation Captures the almost hallucinatory madness of the war...This is a compelling, truth-telling book with a visceral impact, its images stuck in the mind like shards from a pineapple bomb. -- Publishers Weekly What a passionate, compassionate, brilliant book this is. With uncanny precision, [Dispatches] summons up the very essence of [the Vietnam War]...I believe it may be the best personal journal about war, any war, that any writer has ever accomplished. -- Chicago Tribune Herr reaches an excruciating level of intensity...The premier war correspondence of Vietnam. -- Washington Post The best book to have been written about the Vietnam War...Nothing else so far has even come close to conveying how different this war was from any we fought-or how utterly different were the methods and the men who fought for us. -- New York Times Book Review The most indispensable personal account of the cruelty and violence of modern warfare. -- GQ magazine We have all spent ten years trying to explain what happened to our heads and our lives in the decade we finally survived--but Michael Herr's Dispatches puts the rest of us in the shade. -- Hunter S. Thompson, New York Times bestselling author The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time. -- John le Carre, #1 New York Times bestselling author Like Homer's Iliad, Herr's war stories seem suited to being spoken rather than read. Ray Porter provides the perfect clear, clipped, but not overdramatic narration. Porter's occasional character voices enrich the text without distracting from it. -- AudioFile

Having read Dispatches, it is difficult to convey the impact of total experience as all the facades of patriotism, heroism, and the whole colossal fraud of American intervention fall away to the bare bones of fear, war, and death. -- William S. Burroughs, American writer, artist, and primary figure of the Beat Generation Captures the almost hallucinatory madness of the war...This is a compelling, truth-telling book with a visceral impact, its images stuck in the mind like shards from a pineapple bomb. -- Publishers Weekly What a passionate, compassionate, brilliant book this is. With uncanny precision, [Dispatches] summons up the very essence of [the Vietnam War]...I believe it may be the best personal journal about war, any war, that any writer has ever accomplished. -- Chicago Tribune Herr reaches an excruciating level of intensity...The premier war correspondence of Vietnam. -- Washington Post The best book to have been written about the Vietnam War...Nothing else so far has even come close to conveying how different this war was from any we fought-or how utterly different were the methods and the men who fought for us. -- New York Times Book Review The most indispensable personal account of the cruelty and violence of modern warfare. -- GQ magazine We have all spent ten years trying to explain what happened to our heads and our lives in the decade we finally survived--but Michael Herr's Dispatches puts the rest of us in the shade. -- Hunter S. Thompson, New York Times bestselling author Like Homer's Iliad, Herr's war stories seem suited to being spoken rather than read. Ray Porter provides the perfect clear, clipped, but not overdramatic narration. Porter's occasional character voices enrich the text without distracting from it. -- AudioFile The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time. -- John le Carre, #1 New York Times bestselling author

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Michael Herr (1940-2016) was a novelist and war correspondent. He was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and began reporting from Vietnam for Esquire in the 1960s, during the height of the war. He later chronicled those experiences in his memoir, Dispatches. He is the author of three other books, The Big Room, Walter Winchell, and Kubrick, and coauthor of the screenplays for Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket. Ray Porter is an AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator and fifteen-year veteran of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He has appeared in numerous films and television shows, including Almost Famous, ER, and Frasier.

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