And next is what I think is one of the best books ever written on the Vietnam War, and this is Dispatches by Michael Herr. This is very literary in the sense that Michael Herr is a fantastic writer.
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But more than anything else, I thought that this was a great story about the human spirit and the spirit of cooperation among people during very difficult times.
It's incredibly well-written, very engaging. If you're not at all familiar with motorcycle gangs, I think this will be a pretty eye-opening read for you.
Again, this is a non-fiction that has a such a strong narrative, it really could be a fiction. It's just a very compelling book that is also very detail-oriented and rich in history at the same time.
It's just maybe not as engaging as some of these others, but it's still absolutely worth a read and very fascinating.
This was probably one of my first non-fiction books I've ever read in my life and it just totally floored me. Even if you're not into the outdoors, you're not into hiking, you're not into mountaineering, I think you will be very drawn in by this story because Krakauer writes it in such a compelling way.
And this book has one of the most mind-blowing endings, I think, of any nonfiction that I've read. It's, again, very narrative-based. It could be considered like fiction-esque, but it's all true stories, which makes it really interesting.
And obviously some of the stories are a bit more interesting than others, but overall it's a very entertaining read. You also get to learn a lot about world history through the art as well.
So, even though I didn't love it, I thought it was okay. But it's incredibly detail-oriented. It does make you feel like you are involved in the action.
But being from rural New Hampshire, this was pretty eye-opening for me because it really I think exposed what life in the city for a lot of people can be like.









