- Taschenbuch: 352 Seiten
- Verlag: Avon (1. Juni 1997)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0380708035
- ISBN-13: 978-0380708031
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 17,5 x 10,7 x 2,5 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.2 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (8 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 2.230.493 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Haldeman has been one of science fiction's brightest stars for two decades but is less renowned for his Vietnam War novels. The third, 1968, deals with a year in the life of Snake, a combat engineer in the Central Highlands just before the Tet offensive. Wounded on a patrol, he is medevac'd to the U.S. and diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic. He spends the rest of the year, both in the hospital and afterward, trying to come to terms with his family, the country, the war, and especially the memory of his last patrol. Haldeman's spare, flat prose is perfectly suited to a story containing so many tensions and so much emotion, and his ironic asides on weapons, customs, and psychiatric procedures provide not just background, but acrid commentary. A powerful novel, 1968 is worthy of careful reading, for although veterans will be instantly attuned to Haldeman's voice, what he has to say will also repay those who bring to it only a casual knowledge of the war. Dennis Winters
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Returning home from the Vietnam War with mental problems, Spider faces conflict with the psychomedical establishment, while Beverly, his former girlfriend, finds herself attacked by the police at the Chicago Democratic convention. Reprint. PW.
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Fans of Haldeman's science fiction might be expecting an autobiographical novel when they find out that this is the story of a nineteen year old draftee who serves as a combat engineer in the Vietnam of 1968. That was the year Haldeman was a combat engineer there, and, like protagonist Spider, he was wounded then. But much of the novel doesn't seem specifically autobiographical though Haldeman's lean prose certainly uses his own experiences to recreate everything from the details of Vietnam's red soil, the contents of an engineer's demolition pack while on patrol, boobytraps, and the workings and non-workings of various weapons. Haldeman's dry, ironic prose has the right air of understatement for horrors that need no exaggeration. Science fiction fans will also be interested to see how the horrors that drove Spider psychotic are worked into the genre fiction he writes at his therapist's request.
Haldeman's most famous work, THE FOREVER WAR, was a metaphoric look at Vietnam. Here he shuns obliqueness to recreate an America at war. Using the novelistic techniques of Dos Passos, we learn about the persons and events of the time in documentary sections interspersed between accounts of Spider and his one time girlfriend, Beverly, whose journey skims the oceans of political dissent and counterculture existing on the homefront. Spider's troubles are only beginning when he's evacuated back home after being wounded in an ambush that wipes out most of his patrol. The entropic workings of bureaucracy and malfunctioning machinery coincide to strip him of home, family, friends, and gainful employment. Only rarely does coincidence -- and Haldeman's coincidences are always plausible -- work in his favor. One instance leads to the book's powerful ending.
Anyone seeking a compelling account of the year or any fan of Haldeman will want to read this novel.
My only complaint is that I would have liked to continue some of the characters' lives past 1968, but Haldeman is faithful to the title and ends his novel on Dec. 31, 1968.
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I am and have been an avid reader of science fiction for some time, through this interest I was introduced to the writing of Joe Haldeman. I have also been through a number of books on the Vietnam experience, from "The Quiet American" to "In the lake of the woods. From my varied reading interests I can assure the reader two things. First that Joe Haldeman is a great author, especially of science fiction. Second this is not a science fiction book. It is a good book, it is a powerful book, it is a meaningful book, but it is not science fiction. I just wanted to split that hair.
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1968 is wonderfully written, brilliantly clear and brutally honest -- my favorite kind of book. Having lived (barely) through my own personal hell that year, I can attest to this novel's piercing insight. I was captivated by concise portrayal of Spider's suffering at the hands of the military industrial complex and Beverly's dazed trip through the counter-culture of Peace & Love. 1968 is a historical novel whose history is far more accurate that the 'official' accounts pawned off on the public. This book deserves no less than #1 'Best Seller' status.
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A great Vietnam novel, but not one of Joe Haldeman's best.
If you love Vietnam books, this novel is for you. It gives a detailed and factual story of an American engineer in Vietnam. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 6. Oktober 1999 von Patrick Herward
The most powerful book I have read in a long time.
This is a great novel, and harrowing journey inside the soul of 1968. If you were there then this is you, or someone you knew. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 26. September 1999 veröffentlicht
what a story
My father was in Vietnam, and he doesn't talk much about it. All my information on what the war was about/like has come from authors who were there, like Haldeman. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 9. November 1998 von driley@cyberramp.net
A superb, crucial American novel
This is a book that stretches and enfolds the year 1968's wonder and horror. Haldeman has moved from strength to strength -- Robert Heinlein and Orson Scott Card fans will... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 22. Juni 1998 von Tim Blackmore
Slightly better than OK and very depressing.
This book is the story of a soldier who goes to Vietnam, and, through a series of mishaps, winds up with psychological problems, not the least of which is PTSD. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 20. August 1997 veröffentlicht
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