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His bomber hit by anti-aircraft fire, an American gunner must parachute into Tokyo days before the great firebomb raid on that city. Fortunately, this recorded version of Dickey's macho story of survival against the odds is abridged, making the hero more believable and the tale more mesmerizing. The book, unfortunately, contains too many instances of poetic flights of fancy and philosophical baggage for a blood-and-guts action story wherein the hero commits a large number of murders, both necessary and gratuitous. The main focus here is how to escape and how to become invisible in a nation where you are the outsider. Dickey's solution is highly imaginative and entertaining. This production, well narrated by Dick Hill, will appeal to those who love war and adventure stories. Recommended for large popular collections.
- James Dudley, Copiague, N.Y.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Ce texte provient d'une �dition qui n'est plus publi�e ou qui est non diponible.

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"Hill presents Dickey's powerful first-person account, conveying savagery and mystical transcendence into nature in a dynamic balance." R.F.W. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine --Ce texte provient d'une �dition qui n'est plus publi�e ou qui est non diponible.

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4.0�toiles sur 5 Reality and nostalgia collide, Jui 29 2004

Par	s. nicholas "skim" (Seattle, WA United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires

This review is from: To the White Sea (Paperback)

If you are a fan of the more popular war writer, Tim O'Brien, I think you will particularly enjoy this book. Like a lot of O'Brien's work, Dickey's story is a mixture of flashbacks amidst a harsh war reality that is hard to cope with. Unlike, Dickey's Deliverance (another fantastic book), this book doesn't have a lot of interesting side characters--the main character is on a solo trip behind enemy lines, killing without remorse and sinking deeper and deeper into his thoughts and memories of the wilds of Alaska. Where this book does share with "Deliverance" is a great understanding of nature and how man 'reverts' back to instincts shared with other predators and prey in the animal world when placed in a survival situation. I really enjoyed this book--the language is beautiful and even if it is often hard to be sympathetic to the main character because of his violence, we can understand his state of mind.

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4.0�toiles sur 5 Wasn't sure what I was getting into..., Janv. 13 2004

Par	"eminentbrain" (SF Bay Area, CA USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires

This review is from: To the White Sea (Paperback)

I read this due to the fact that I heard that the Coen Brothers were making it into a movie -- although I've read that this is no longer the case. In any event, this was my first Dickey novel and I have to say that all in all, I was very satisfied with the effort. The prose is interesting, lush and vivid in some parts and caustic in others. Some of the other reviewers seemed to be appalled at the plot and the surgical sterility that Dickey used to describe the deaths inflicted by the main character, but I found those exact things to be quite within the realm of believability, especially when the whole idea of the book is to survive like an animal behind enemy lines.

I liked the book enough to want to go back and read more of Dickey's other works...

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5.0�toiles sur 5 a superb work of fiction, Oct. 6 2003

Par	Scott in Vermont (Vermont USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires

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A page-turner all the way. I had to force myself to put it down at times. It's a masterful piece of story-telling, for sure, but much more: a complex portrait of a serial killer which is also remarkable lyric poetry. It's this juxtaposition which is so disturbing: a cold-blooded killer with the mind of a poet. Dickey's ability to "paint with words" is incredible. I don't know what else I can add to what other reviewers have already said. I was disappointed to discover (as I should have expected) that this novel is probably going to be made into a movie. No, no no! I don't care who does it or how good it supposedly is; it can't achieve what the novel did, which is told in the first person. Why, oh why, can't Hollywood leave this one alone? In any case, read the book by all means. I haven't read anything that caught my attention like this one did in a long time.

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