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Operation Poppy

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I have never felt the urge to write a review before, but this is so badly written I threw it out after struggling through about 90 pages It reads like it was written in Japanese and translated to English by a Japanese speaker. Story is probably ok, but the endless history, geography and hydrology lessons are tiresome and almost indeciferable.

I met the author of Operation Poppy at a Borders Books store near Washington, DC, where he was doing a "meet the author" promotion of his books. I chatted with him and picked up a copy of Operation Poppy. The reviews on the back cover, all by military personnel, heaped praise on the book. I bought it. As I read the first 50 or so pages, I was constantly finding grammatical errors, changes in tense, lack of punctuation, and meaningless sentences. I could not concentrate on the story as these distractions soon had my whole attention. I kept reading only because I thought that somehow things would have to get better. I am now on page 164 of 261. I had to stop to see if anyone had written a review for the Internet. I found one here titled "unreadable" and I must say "amen." It is tragic/sad that Capt. Brittingham did not have the common sense to have this book edited before it was published.