The post title here refers to the fact that I decided to read all three of these books before any kind of consideration about how they might be tied together. In fact, only with Dispatches did I even have any idea what the books were even about. The other two just connected in unintended ways. Dispatches – 5/5 Dispatches is a series of memoir, oral history, and reportage pieces from the embedded journalist Michael Herr, who was in his mid-20s when he was in […]
Three books that kind of played off each other accidentally
Dispatches by Michael Herr
Koko by Peter Straub
No Beast So Fierce by Edward Bunker