Fallen Angels

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Summary: Fallen Angels
Review: This was an extremly good book and the story was portrayed wonderfully. Waltee Dean Myers is an excelent author that inspires you to keep reading, you won't be able to put it down. This book mostly takes place in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The main character in Fallen Angels is Perry who is almost never seperatded from his new best friend Pewee. Although Pewee isn't the biggest guy in base camp he is definetly the bravest, whether it's fighting the Vietcong army or taking on a guy three times his size in base camp Pewee will be there. On the other hand Pery isn't quite so sure if he's ready to kill because he knows that it will change him forever. This book was so enthrlling and well written that it encourages you to read other novels by Walter Dean Myers because his talent as an author is astounding and his books are great. I definetly would recomend reading Fallen Angels.

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Summary: Fallen Angles Review
Review: The book Fallen Angels is about a group of friends who are serving in the Vietnam War. Perry, Lobel, Johnson, Brunner, and Peewee are out fighting in the middle of Vietnam. During this book Perry explains this deep thoughs of what he sees, hears and feals about what is going on around him. Many of Perry's comrads die during this book so its quite sad at sometimes. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes army things or just wondered what is was like being in a war.

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Summary: It is good book
Review: This is a good book. It tells a little about what it was like in Vietnam. It is about a guy named Perry who is sent to Vietnam with a few other people expecting the war to be over soon.

The author did well in using the right words. It has a good plot. There is a lot of violence, blood, and cussing in it, but it is still okay. It describes things well and clearly helps you understand what they are talking about most of the time.

Some things aren't that good though. The letters are really small and cramped together so you could loose your place. Sometimes you also have to go back and read again to check if you understand what is going on.

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Summary: Greatest Book!!
Review: Fallen Angels was one of the greatest books I've read. It was about a guy named Perry who goes off to Nam because doesnt have enough money for college. On the way there he meets Pewee who is fairly humorus throughout the book. I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in an exciting as well as sad book. This book to me well, I didn't want to put it down. It almost never got boring and I loved it throughout. The things I liked most were the language and how well Walter Dean Myers described things. Now-a-days authors are getting soft with war books and aren't being as graphiclly descriptive. This book had no boundrys with language and I loved it. It made me think I was actually there. Really the only thing I didn't like was nothing this book was flawless. The book talks about the hardships and the honor of Nam. The fear and the hate. If you want war action I definatly recommend this book.

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Summary: Fallen Angels
Review: This book is about a young adult named Richie Perry. He's having a hard time living on the streets and decides to join the army for the comfort of three meals a day, but one thing they didnt tell him that there were already built graves for them to lay in.
I thought this author did a good job discribing the characters personality, but it was a very long book.
Since it is so long I would only recomend this book for 14-16 year olds its probably a little to graphic and long. I would recomend this book to someone that likes adventures / real life story's. This book is alot like.. well this book does not compare to any I have read so if you like real life adventures story's read this!

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Summary: Review of Fallen Angels
Review: Meet Richard Perry, or as called by his fellow soldiers,'Perry'. Perry is the protagonist throughout the book, Fallen Angels, by Walter Dean Myers. This was a very interesting book. The story is set in Vietnam in 1968 during the Vietnam War. Perry isn't even supposed to be involved in the war, but is sent to 'Nam' because of a paperwork mess up. In Vietnam, Perry experiences more than his share of battle scenes, combat, fear, death, pain, and the struggle just to stay alive and trying to keeph is fellow soldiers alive too. Myers portrays all of these experiences extremely well in the book. However, I especially like the way Myers portrays how friendships, new and old, and family are present throughout all the hardships of war. Throughout the book, Perry has flashbacks to his home life and realizes throughout his months in 'Nam' that 'movies are the only real thing in life'. At times the book gets slow and you wonder when it will pick up again, but the battle scenes and struggles keep you anxious to find out how Perry and his friends will get out of the situations, or more importantly, how they'll get out of the situations alive. There are humorous parts in this book, there are sad parts in this book, there are some confusing parts in this book; but I recommend this book to anyone who likes war stories or for anyone who wants to be enlightened as to what war is really like. I myself now have a new understanding and realization of what my father might have gone through when he was in the Vietnam war. I also now have a deeper respect, sympathy, admiration and regard for anyone who has ever been part of any war. The only part I didn't like about the book was all of the profanity throughout the story. However, I assume that's part of how the author is trying to show us that war isn't as 'pretty' as some people think it to be, and is trying to give an honest account of what war is like. All in all, however, I give this book two thumbs up and recommend it to anyone who is looking for a good story.

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Summary: Art Fulks, Justin Brownell, & Andrew Snyder
Review: We actually give this book more of a 4.5 rather than a 4... but there isn't a 4.5 so... yeah.

We thought that it was a good book overall, great imaging on the battle scenes, excellent storyline, great characters and character relations, great dialogue and wording, the book was overall very good and entertaining. The only downside we found was that it was rather boring when the characters talked about past experiences at home that didn't have any relation to them being in the Vietnam War whatsoever. Those parts were slow compared to the rest of the book but were the only fault. The book was surprising, entertaining, funny and sad at the same time (not literally). Some parts when the members of the squad would joke around, laugh at each other, and when some of them got killed, and things happened when you least expected them to. Some parts of the book kept you thinking about what is going to happen next and wondering, "What the heck is going on here". We definitely recommend this book for anyone interested in a good war book.

4.5/5 stars.

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Summary: Very good war novel
Review: Richie is a poor African-American who great up in Harlem, NY. Years before the story his father left the family, and since then Richie has had to support the family. Not only did the father leave, but his mother became an alcoholic. Richie was a smart kid in school, most people thought that he was going to college, but the problem that faced him was that his family couldn't afford for him to go to college. In order to get away from all the questions and harsh life, Richie joins the army in hopes that the war will be over and he will be able to do something with his life, and earn money for the family. Richie also has a little brother, Kenny, who he loves dearly. Throughout the novel Richie sends Kenny letters and money.

Throughout the rest of the book, Richie encounters the many different hardships of war. He experiances masses of death around him. He loses many of his friends. He also experiances racism, when he returns from his injury and finds himself under the command of a new officer.

By the end of his duty he could say that he had been through it all. This was a very good book. The author really puts you in the trenches and pits with the soldiers. While your reading the book its like there is a mental movie playing in your mind of each sentence. The author is very vivid and accurate in his discriptions of the battle scenes and soldiers feelings. I would reccomend this book to anyone who is looking for a fast and fun book to read. I am the the quickes reader in the world and I managed to finish the book within a week. I hope that you take the time to really enjoy this one.

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Summary: A real eye-opener
Review: When my dad was drafted during the Vietnam War, he hired a lawyer and managed to get out of going. Basically all of his friends did the same, or went to college, or into the National Guard, to avoid the draft. After reading Fallen Angels, I was a little ashamed of what my father did. Not everyone could avoid the draft, and some people didn't want to. Fallen Angels is a book about those people, and a fitting tribute to them. I found myself caring about the characters to the point where I actually cried at a few parts, and laughed at a few others. Looking back now, it's easy for anyone to say that the Vietnam War should never have happened, but this book clearly shows that the soldiers who were there were not to blame, and that Vietnam veterans deserve respect and admiration, not the scorn that greeted many of them when they returned home. It was a real eye-opener for me, and I'd recommend it to other teenagers.

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Summary: Incredible
Review: I am a 15 year old "jock" that usually hates reading. but with this book i have turned into a book worm. I mean this book is incredible, for the first time in my life i finnished a book in less than a week. It's a story of a young man trying to find out who he is while fighting in a war. I dunno what else to say. it's just plain awesome.