Customer Reviews

The Quick and the Dead

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I don't know what C.Blanc, R.O. Despain, and Alan C.
Catlin think they are doing with their reviews of
Eickhoff's work, But their reviews remind me of
someone who is a wannabe reviewer and doesn't have the
intellectual capacity to be one. Unfortunately,
comments like these idiots are unwarranted. THE QUICK
AND THE DEAD is a wonderful read and, from others with
whom I have shared the work, seamless and flawless.
Several other reviews have praised Eickhoff for his
accuracy and truthfulness as a storyteller. Blanc,
Despain, and Catlin appear to be looking for works to
denigrate through their stupidity

I guess I like cliches. I thought this book was extremely well written. I have a friend that was a LRRP in Vietnam around 1971 and read him parts of the book. He always complains if things are not accurate or real, in books that are about the Vietnam war, and he also liked this book. I didn't notice the inconsistencies the other reviewer wrote about so it didn't bother me. I just loved the way the author wrote. I felt like I was there. He puts so much emotion behind the story. The feelings that he writes about on killing and fear agree with other books I have read and veterans that I have talked to. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in war or Vietnam.

Somewhere in this derivative but, vivid novel, is a great movie. Too bad that movie has already been made by someone else. Whole scenes are lifted from The Director's Cut of Apocalypse Now! He even resorts to using dialogue directly from his source. Am I the only one who noticed this? Catman

Oh look -- someone strung together a series of cliches and called it a novel. Randomly citing mainstream opinions of the Viet Nam war, the much-touted personal perspective this author had in Special Forces-style missions, and scenes lifted whole cloth from both "Apocalypse Now" and mainstream romance and detective novels, this book is an unthreatening little read that goes absolutely nowhere. I would recommend this to someone needing to start a fire.