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The doctors who worked in the Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals (MASH) during the Korean War were well trained but, like most soldiers sent to fight a war, too young for the job. In the words of the author, "a few flipped their lids, but most of them just raised hell, in a variety of ways and degrees."
For fans of the movie and the series alike, here is the original version of that perfectly corrupt football game, those martini-laced mornings and sexual escapades, and that unforgettable foray into assisted if incompleted suicide--all as funny and poignant now as they were before they became a part of America's culture and heart.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
A different M.A.S.H.,
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This review is from: M*A*S*H (Paperback)
The novel is strikingly different in many ways from the film and the TV series which followed it. Some of the charcters are entirely different from the way they were portrayed in the move and Tv series. For instance, Colonel Blake and Father mulchahey are both much tougher characters than they are portrayed as being in the later vehicles. Major Houlihan doesn't play nearly such an important role in the book as she does in the film or series. Trapper and Hawkeye are like and yet not like their later versions. The book is very funny however and is well worth reading, and it is very interesting to compare it with the later and quite different versions. I don't know how Richard Hooker felt about the changes made to his characters in the later versions, but certainly this, the original book that started it all, should be read by any fan of the other versions.
4.0 out of 5 stars
DIFFERENT FROM MOVIE AND TV,
By A Customer
This review is from: Mash (Paperback)
As long ago as this book came out and with all the different iterations of MASH it was only recently that I picked up a copy of the book that started it all.Knowing the movie was based on the book I found myself surprised by how much the movie differed from the book. However many of the differences were perhaps necessary as the book had too many characters to track in a movie and some of the story lines were altered. For example, the Major Burns of the movie and TV show was a composite of several characters in the book. The part where the dentist contemplated suicide had a slightly different and cleaner plot line in the book than in the movie. The book jumped around alot and for that reason I had trouble giving it five stars. Interestingly enough, although he made money off the TV series, I understand Richard Hooker was not a fan of the show. His book was a spoof of the military and the strange ways the military did things during the Korean War (and since the Korean War for that matter). Mr. Hooker supported our effort in Korea and felt the war -- however terrible -- was justified. The series -- especially the last few years -- degenerated into a pacifist anti-war message. If I were to rate the different iterations of MASH I would rate it in the following order: 1. The movie was great; 2. The first four or five years of the TV series before it decided to preach pacifism; 3. The original book; 4. The last several years of the show when personally I could not wait for it to end.
4.0 out of 5 stars
M*A*S*H Review,
By Bob Smith (Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Mash (Paperback)
I thought that this book did a good job of mixing factual information about war situations like the Korean War with humor. The characters in the novel were both life-like and hilarious. I enjoyed it much more than the TV series.
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