Walter Dean Myers - Fallen Angels

Pros: powerful narrative of a young man's coming of age amidst the horrors of Vietnam

Cons: pretty darned graphic at times

The Bottom Line: Walter Dean Myers brought the Vietnam era home for another generation in 1988. So why do some people dislike Fallen Angels so much?

Review: For many men of my generation, the Baby Boomers, death might best be personified by three simple letters: N-A-M. Fought in a far-off land for reasons that were often unclear even to the combatants, the war in Vietnam still looms both as one of this ...

Pros: story; characters; writing

Cons: pretty heavy content

The Bottom Line:

The time was 1967 and hope ran high for a while that peace would be called. Told from perspective of an engaging teen based on the author probably. 

Review: NOTE - Dr. Freudine is a fictitious psychiatrist and my inspiring alter ego who sometimes helps me to review books, movies and music. Last time she had fun watching Deathtrap by the late Sidney Lumet.******************In the morning I wake up to ...

Pros: Great description, intense

Cons: Not for the weak-minded

The Bottom Line: I would not recommend this book for the weak minded, because it contains unpleasant examples of what happened in Vietnam. But for everyone else, it is a great book.

Review: The story of Fallen Angels took place during the Vietnam War, where every step a soldier took could be his last. Fallen Angels has great, but nasty examples of what happened during the Vietnam War. The book is about the many sufferings in Vietnam ...