Dispatches

The rhetoric of this book was a little confusing to me. I don’t know why but I somehow couldn’t relate to this book as much as I did with The Things they Carried although the diction was so informal. I mean, this book was written in a way where you felt that Herr was talking to YOU specifically and he was telling you the story. He also used the language he would have used as if he were talking to a buddy. However, I love the fact, that in both these books I can actually feel the emotions of the character whereas the movies somehow end up feeling like documentaries to me. The Things they Carried did that for me and Dispatches did too, to a certain extent.