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Summary: A Great Read
Review: I read Fallen Angels as a Summer Reading book last year when I was entering my sophmore year in High School. What interested me in the book, was the fact that it was about war. I am not a big fan of war stories, but I enjoyed this one. Walter Dean Myers makes his characters come alive. I could not put the book down. I got so envolved in the book, I was screaming at it when something happened that I did not like. Anyone I have talked to has said they enjoyed it emensly. The story is about the accounts of a boy from Harlem and his tent mates. Pewee, one of the tentmates, adds comic relief to the story. I enjoyed this book very much and would recommend it to anyone who wants to read a book where the characters seem real.
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Summary: Intoxicating
Review: I am a 13 year old incoming freshman at Boston College High School and am an avid fan of any novel from the period of time from the Peloponnesian war to the Cold war. Those of you familiar with the works of Steven Pressfield and Stephen Ambrose may be accustomed to this wonderfully colorful limited first person way of writing. Although the language may be a bit too vulgar for a younger reader, it is meant to give a more clear idea of how life was for these predominately uneducated infantryman. The very intricate descriptions given by myers is one characteristic of a great story teller. In conclusion, this novel would make an excellent read for those with a limited amount of time in their hands, for once begun it is extremely hard to put down.
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Summary: One of the greatest books I have ever read
Review: This isn't just one of the greatest WAR books I have ever read-this is one of the greatest books I have ever read. It tells about the life of a war bound African-American kid named Richie Perry who didn't get accepted into college. He tells of his migration from the poor streets of Harlem (New York City) to the bloody battlefields of Vietnam. He experiences the pain and suffering of war firsthand and talks about it in the story. He questions President Lyndon B. Johnson in his mind and asks him why are Americans in this war? Why do we need to spare all these lives just to stop Communism? Why do African-Americans gets the toughest assignments in the war? Why? He experiences death, pain, and suffering firsthand and really depicts what war is all about. Thats why this book is so good. It explains to the average person who has never been in a war what war is really all about. The only thing I regret is I can't give this book more than 5 stars.
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Summary: Fallen Angles Review
Review: I am a sophomore at Clark Magnet High School and I just finished reading Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers. As a high school student I have to tell you that this is the best book that I read this year. This is also one of the best books that I have enjoyed in a very long time. I got the book from our school library and I did not think that it was going to be this good. I just checked it out and told myself that it is just a book and its going to be just like the other 90% of the books that I have read and that it is going to be boring. Little did I know that I enjoyed this book. This book is written so close to the heart. Fallen Angels if about the Vietnam War and how it was actually going on and the real truth behind the way the war was going on. This is also a story about friendship between soldiers and other personnel from the army. This book was written in so much detail that you think that you are there in the battle fighting with the enemy. This story is about the main character whose name is Richard Perry and he enlists in the army. There he meets a friend who later becomes his closest friend and his name is Peewee. At the army Peewee and Perry become close friends and they meet some other friends who are Lobel, Johnson, Brummer and their tight friendship. They get into many battles with the Vietnamese and end up losing their friends. This book shows how much of an effect the Vietnam War had on the soldiers and how they try to stick together through all the hardships. I would recommend this book to war-story fans and war-story lovers that are mature. Even though I am a little young to be reading this book it was still interesting to me. Fallen Angels contains some very graphic language that I do not think will be appropriate to teenagers under the age of seventeen. So if you like war-stories this will be a great story to start reading.
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Summary: TOUR OF NAM
Review: THIS WAS A VERY GOOD BOOK. IT EXPLAINED HOW THE YOUNG GUYS IN NAM REACT, AND IT EXPLAINED THEIR REACTIONS AND THEIR FEAR OF KILLING OTHER PEOPLE WHO WHERE FIGHTING FOR THE SAME THING AS THEY WERE. THE BOOK EXPLAINS THE POSITION THEY WERE IN AND THAT THEY HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO KILL IN ORDER TO STAY ALIVE IN VIETNAM.
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Summary: Fallen Angels
Review: Reading this book was music to my eyes, as some people wouldput it. It was one of the few books I read twice, I read it once andit was so good I read it again. It is one of the of the best books I have ever read. I would highle reccomend it to anybody. The Fallen Angles is an epic tale of Vietnam describing the hardships endured, the friends mader, and the men klled. It takes place in an area called Dak To in Southern Vietnam. The year is 1969 and new recruits have just arrived at the Ashau Valley in Dak To Vietnam. "I was the last out of the truck, I had not even seen combat and already I was too scared to move,"these are some of the words spoken by Richie Perry. Perry is the main charcter of the book who is a volunteer under the condition that he is allowed to go home once a year, and he later finds that volunteering was a big mistake. He later meets other soldiers who also volunteered for their own reasons, but in the end all they want to do is live to see the end of the war. They march through the boonies for months and months on end. Only to meet the fate each one would individually have at the end. Each also has their own conflicts. They all have a man Vs himself conflict because they joined for that reason. The other one's are man Vs nature and Man Vs man, they have to survive the jungle and fight their hated enemy's, the Vietcong. But all of them find ways to cope with their conflicts, through laughs, despair, hatred, and sheer horror they learn to survive and kill, but will they is the question of life and death. This later leads to one of my favorite parts when Brunner shoots Lobel in the toe on accident. However though it also describes how scared they are in battle, I'll never forget the part there they patrol the cemetary and end up sleeping in fresh graves all night. As I said earlier this is one of the best books I have ever read. It portrayed Vietnam in a way I had never seen before. It is a truly intriguing and heartbreaking tale of Vietnam. Which sounds odd for a war book but as Perry would say, "This is the worst place I have ever been in my life. Heartbreak, sorrow, and terror are around every corner but, that doesn't mean you should quit the maze. END
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Summary: 5 stars is not enough
Review: this book was great! it had to be one of the best books i have ever read.
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Summary: Not one dull moment
Review: I'm a 7th grader at West Middle School. I recently finished reading "Fallen Angels". It's about Richy Peery and his tour of duty in Vietnam. While there, he meets Peewee, Lobel, Johnson and Bunner. The story tells how they attempt to survive. I think this a very goog book and I give it five stars. It did not have one dull moment. I hope you will read it. --CM
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Summary: Fallen Angels Hits the Ground Hard!
Review: This novel was hypnotizing, it drew our attention into the book and brought our imagination into the deep jungels of Vietnam. One of Walter Dean Myers best works. The launguage of the book was realistic and simple to read. The experencies of Perry really made us think of how hard and devestating war can be!
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Summary: MYERS DOES GOOD ONE MORE TIME
Review: WALTER DEAN MYERS WRITES THIS BOOK WITH GREAT PASSION. HE MAKES YOU FEEL LIKE YOU ARE IN THE ACTUAL WAR. THE BOOK CATCHES YOUR ATTENTION FROM THE BEGINNING. THE BOOK CONCIST OF MANY IMPORTANT CHARACTERS. THE MOST IMPORTANT IS PERRY, A YOUNG BOY THAT JUST GRADUATED FROM HIGH SCHOOL AND WONDERS WHAT HE IS GOING TO DO WITH HIS LIFE, SO HE JOINS THE ARMY. HE MEETS MANY PEOPLE THAT ALL STRIVE FOR THE SAME COMMON GOAL, TO MAKE IT OUT OF THE WAR A LIVE. IF YOU ARE A READER THAT LIKE TO READ A GOOD WAR STORY, THEN THIS IS A GOOD BOOK FOR YOU. SO READ THIS BOOK.
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