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Dog Soldiers

By: Robert Stone
Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
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In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he'll find action - and profit - by getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States, things go horribly wrong for him. Dog Soldiers perfectly captures the underground mood of America in the 1970s, when amateur drug dealers and hippies encountered profiteering cops and professional killers - and the price of survival was dangerously high.
©1973, 1974, 1994 Robert Stone (P)2008 BBC Audiobooks America
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"A dark descendant of Conrad's and Hemingway's adventure stories...Goes hell-for-leather across the landscape." ( The New York Times Book Review)

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Great book!

Loved the story it was hard to put down. The narrator does an amazing job. Highly recommend!

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Novel about Vietnam war and US counterculture.

This is a novel about the USA, the effects on it of the Vietnam war and the US counterculture of the period. It is also about life, death and human folly, not to mention greed and cruelty. Worth listening to.

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A bitter disappointment of a book

I went to see the movie based on this book, starring Nick Nolte as the " hero" of the story and Michael Moriarty, as the weakling writer;it was, overall, a very good film and with Nolte's most striking role.

So, I was hoping for great things, when I tracked down the source; great reviews, trumpeting the excellence of the book, only increased the crashing nature of my disappointment.

Firstly, the issue of the narrator; a terrible droning storyteller, with a bad American accent ( is he really US?) that is irritating and so wearing on the swing of the story; as for his attempts at narrating the female characters dialogue, the worst, laughably bad!

Then, the dialogue and writing style of Stone, far from advancing the pace and excitement of a good story, merely serves to emasculate any thrust and guts from the adventure.

The writing style, is tiresome, pretentious, dated and altogether unenjoyable.

I hated this book, quite frankly; oh well, at least the film improved on the book, which is a rare thing!

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