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Top Ten Reasons to Give The Caine Mutiny a Chance
10. Wouk's clear, compelling, Pulitzer Prize winning prose.
9. The boredom of military service, even in wartime, has never been so interesting.
8. The USS Caine DMS feels like home -- no matter who's in command.
7. The ineluctable build of Queeg's collapse.
6. Willie's slow and certain becoming.
5. Keefer's behaviour insuring that no side is "right."
4. The best novelized military trial ever written.
3. The complexity of Wouk's characters, even when the ...more
10. Wouk's clear, compelling, Pulitzer Prize winning prose.
9. The boredom of military service, even in wartime, has never been so interesting.
8. The USS Caine DMS feels like home -- no matter who's in command.
7. The ineluctable build of Queeg's collapse.
6. Willie's slow and certain becoming.
5. Keefer's behaviour insuring that no side is "right."
4. The best novelized military trial ever written.
3. The complexity of Wouk's characters, even when the ...more
Herman Wouk is a master storyteller. I read his works The Winds of War and War and Remembrance in the first few months after their release and they have consistently stayed on my favorite books ever read list. But for some reason I hadn't read anything else by him. I think perhaps I was afraid that they wouldn't live up to the standard. But this book is brilliant. The characters are rich, flawed, unique and real. The plot is well-paced, finely written. Wouk's ability to tell the story of war is
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I enjoyed listening to the audio version of this book. I had never watched The Caine Mutiny movie, so I don't have any basis for comparison, but I thought the book was entertaining and interesting.
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