Fallen Angels

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Summary: THE BEST WAR BOOK EVER WRITTEN
Review: I could not put this book down after I started reading it, something about it just kept me reading. This is the best book I have ever read, no joke! I could finish the whole book in two days, and tell you exactly what happend, because I could have sworn I was there, fighting in the front lines, with Richie and Peewee, and everybody.

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Summary: Walter Dean Myers book Fallen Angles
Review: This book is about a black man named Riche Perry, he vollenteers to go to Vietnam to fight. He meets people like his friend Peewee. Peewee is another black man. Peewee and Riche fight and do battle against "Congs" as Peewee refers to Vietnamese folk. Riche and Peewee also make other friends. This book was the best book that I have ever read in my whole life!

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Summary: 10
Review: The first time I read Fallen Angels, I was in seventh grade. I'm currently in eight grade, and since that first time, I have read the book three more times. I really liked this book because it gave an insightful and informative view of the Vietnam War. I believe that anyone who is interested in this war would greatly appreciate and learn from this book, reading it many times, as I plan to continue doing.

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Summary: Fallen Angels was the best Vietnam book ever written!
Review: Perry,main character, who tells the story does a great job of letting the reader enter his world. When one is reading they actually feel like they've been shot or blown apart.

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Summary: Extraordinarily captivating
Review: I first started reading this manuscript while stationed in Saudi Arabia and thre was frankly nothing better to do. It was not the type of book I would normally choose to begin reading, but as I read I was at once caught up with the mystery and intrigue encompassed within. This book has all the makings of a great classic novel and you can believe that the events might actually have happened at one time. It has you guessing the motives of Gitan the Gypsy throughout, and your never quite sure if his association with Lady Campion is in the interests of love or power. The book is spell-binding and a must read no matter what your reading interests are.

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Summary: This will make you feel like you were at the Vietnam War.
Review: This book is about what Rich Perry (main character) and his soldier buddies that was in his platton.It talks about what they had to do inorder for them to stay alive and survive. When ever Rich and his platoon is at a gun fight, It makes you feel like you were their taking a video or taking pictures while they were fighting their enemies.This book really gets very exciting.Especially the parts when Rich and two other soldier buddies almost died.Their is so much action on this movie to make Rambo look like Dumbo. It gets interesting when ever the Rich in his platoon are just kicking back.Because they would always make fun of each other.Every time they would make fun of each other, It makes them feel like there not even at War.And it also makes them forget about what they've experience while in a gun fight. I liked this book because it was interesting and a lot of action. I wacth alot of War movies. But I think if this was turned into a movie, Then The best War movie of the year would go to Fallen Angels.

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Summary: One of the best literary work I hav ever read
Review: I am a college frehman at USC and have read the book "Fallen Angels" again and again. I first read the book as a sixth grader in elementary school and the magnitude of this great work affected me then, as it does when I read it today. I have always enjoyed learning about my African-American heritage and even though the book is fictitious, it gave me the insight and motivation to explore the true African-American experience in the Vietnam War

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Summary: Phoney and silly
Review: The author knows very little about Viet Nam. He apparently thinks the 60 in M-60 stands for .60 cal. and that soldiers put stamps on their letters when they were in the war zone.

For those who like mildly homoerotic war stories that little reflect the way things are, this book might be for you.

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Summary: Phoney and silly
Review: The author knows very little about Viet Nam. He apparently thinks the 60 in M-60 stands for .60 cal. and that soldiers put stamps on their letters when they were in the war zone.

Because of the dialogue, the book's subtitle could be The Little Rascals Go To War. Soldiers' talk in this book is often just too cute. For those who like mildly homoerotic war stories that little reflect the way things are, this book might be for you.

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Summary: Fallen Angels Rises Up to Your Interest
Review: Have you ever had to do something you had to do but didn't want to and just wanted to go home? Well so did Peewee, Lobel, Johnson, Brunner, Lt. Caroll and our main subject Richie Perry when they fought together in Vietnam in 1968 in Walter Dean Meyers story Fallen Angels. Someone who would like this story would be a person who likes war history and action movies The story keeps you hanging on until the very end, which is what I like in a good story line and here are just a few reasons why.

First Off, the story is very graphic. An example of how graphic this book is, is when Richie was on his first real patrol mission when he made friends with a young soldier named Jenkins. They were almost home from their patrol route when Jenkins stepped on a landmine and took a large piece of shrapnel to the chest. The level of detail that Walter Dean Meyers put into this story is amazing because he describes vividly Jenkins last few minutes with sentences like "With every breath he took more blood came out then that stopped too."

Secondly, it can be full of emotion. For example on a mission Peewee, Lobel, Johnson, Brunner, Lt. Caroll and Richie were on a mission to watch over a village when someone opens fire on the Viet-cong. They start to fire blindly in the dark until a soldier sets off an Arial flair illuminating the boonies the two opposing militaries are fighting in, so they use the light to their advantage in order to kill all the VC and extract. They carry all the dead and injured to the LZ and begin to load them on the Hueys (helicopter) when they realize that everybody's friend in Perry's company was hurt and bleeding profusely. Here is a perfect example of their emotions while they all wait in the hospital in vain to just find out Lt. Caroll will not be coming back.

Finally a good aspect of the book is how full of action they story line is. One fine example is when Perry, Lobel, Johnson, Brunner and Peewee were supposed to intercept a Viet-cong convoy when the U.S. Army First Squadron is in front of the VC convoy and the two military squadrons (co-op Mission) opened fire on the U.S. First by ordering a White Phosphorous strike (form of napalm) killing the U.S. first Squadron.

In Conclusion I would highly recommend this story to a person who like war, history and action movies. The story line keeps you hanging on until the very end. My favorite part was when Perry snaps and ruthlessly executes several Viet-cong because he was under the effects of napalm that exploded too close to the U.S. troops. The Message this story conveys is to cherish life because it's gone in an instant.