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guys why tf aren't ppl discussing this book anywhere??? i read this for my english class and am halfway in the 'fandom'. i dont even know if you can call it a fandom. this book was genuinely so fucking gut wrenching and the quotes you can get from it are insane. when i have time later i'm gonna post some chapter summaries/notes/me trying to put down my thoughts ab this on paper. but like oml. is mary anne bell real or is she just a front for curt lemon?? max arnold and kiowa??? technicolour flares vs 4th of july fireworks??? ted lavender and jimmy cross. tim o'brien when he left alpha company. azear (the bitch). rat kiley and curt lemon. (KLEMONTINE I LOVE YOU).

like guys i'm genuinely NEEDING more fics for this fandom. what do you mean rat and curt were just playing around and then rat watched his best friend/lover (imo) explode from a land mine detonater.

Norman Bowker hung himself with a jump rope in his YMCA because he couldn't live with the guilt of not 'getting s silver star'. He watched Kiowa drown in a field of mud, shit, and water, and he couldn't help him.

Jimmy Cross has to bear the weight of every dead man in his infantry.

like bro. this is genuinely fucking insane.

THE PARALLELS BETWEEN ON THE RAINY RIVER AND THE LIVES OF THE DEAD.