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: : : : Hal: : : : It's very weird, I just happening to be reading grant's memoirs. He wrote simple declarative sentences, with minimum description. : : : At the same time, he lays out the terrain involving : : : his various campaigns very lucidly, which Hem : : : used to do as well (someone is always working his way up or down somewhere). Grant's dispatches/orders to his gen'ls are a marvel of : : : brevity and lucidly, so that they couldn't screw : : : up because of confusion in the orders. : : : The wonderful thing is that he wrote this book sitting on his front porch, dying of cancer. : : : Also, I am not familiar with Raymond Carter. : : : Chandler maybe? : : : Maybe ole Swilley needs you to go sit on his front porch and get him over here. : : : kwt : Funny you should menthion Thom Jones. I've had a volume of his short stories on a shelf : for maybe ten years. The reviews were very good and some of the stories take place in : The Nam and he actually reminds me of hemingway. Here is an exerpt from a review... : "There's not a miss among these tales, but two in particular stand out: the title story, about a : boxer and Vietnam vet who has plumbed the vicious depths of his : own soul, and the almost unbearably intense chronicle of a woman : fighting a losing battle with cancer, "I Want to Live!" "The world is : replete with badness," says the aging fighter of "A Pugilist at : Rest"; yet, as the narrator of "I Want to Live!" discovers, there is : nothing stronger than the human will to go on, to persist--even in : the face of the hell that exists right here on earth." : : And don't miss Tim O'Brian's The Things They Carried. The title short : story is worth the price of the book. : hth : Pjk

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