Humidity Moon [Paperback]

Michael W. Rodriguez (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 151 pages
• Publisher: Pecan Grove Pr; 1 Ed edition (August 4, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1877603546
• ISBN-13: 978-1877603549
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,911,341 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tells it like it was, the good times and the bad times, September 15, 1999

By A Customer

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Michael Rodriguez' "Humidity Moon" tells the world how we lived, how we felt and how our buddies were closer to us than our own parents, brothers or sisters. It is a must to read, will take you back 30 yrs to a place that cost America a war and the Vietnamese their Nation

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars HYPNOTIC! DREDGES UP IMAGES FROM THE DARK,SPARKLING REALITY, July 1, 1999

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IT WAS MY HONOR TO HAVE SERVED WITH THIS ANGRY YOUNG MAN,A PROFESSIONAL IN EVERY SENSE OF THE WORD.A GIFTED PERSONALITY AND GREAT MARINE SEMPER FI SGT. I.D.PADILLA [e-mail]

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5.0 out of 5 stars Ranks among the very best fiction from the Vietnam War, April 7, 1999

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dan mouer "Dan" (Richmond, Va.) - See all my reviews

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Let me strongly recommend the brand new work by Michael Rodriguez titled "Humidity Moon," published by Pecan Grove Press. Rodriguez presents the clear, respectful, experienced, but none-the-less limited vision of a Marine grunt. I say "limited" in that Rodriguez's first-person narrator is not omniscient; he does not look back with 20-20 hindsight. He sees what grunts saw and translates it into a grunt's reality. The horrid and the mundane of the infantrymam's war come through without apparent embellishment or elaboration. The crisp and simple prose is believable and powerful. It's hard to imagine that this author is writing three decades after his eyes saw, and his mind tried to comprehend, or turn away from, the incomprehensible facts of war. I am a Tim O'Brien fan, and Rodriguez's writing is VERY different, but just as good. This slim volume convinces me that some of that difference is that of an army soldier and a Marine. And I feel I have learned something I never knew about the meaning of being a Marine.