How Long to Read The Best of Medic in the Green Time

How Long Does it Take to Read The Best of Medic in the Green Time?

It takes the average reader 10 hours and 17 minutes to read The Best of Medic in the Green Time by Marc Levy

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The author, as a writer of memoir and collector of memoirs of others, has masterfully transformed what could have been one veteran's story into a chorus of voices on different topics relating to war and its aftermath.Here are chilling, first person accounts of a base overrun. Elsewhere, an MP describes the astonishing attempted escape of a handcuffed Viet Cong. A grunt relates in vivid detail his months long recovery from grievous wounds. After the war, a man is interrogated by the same U.S. army he fought with in Vietnam. In fast-paced postwar traveler's tales the war nips at the narrator's heels at every step. Veterans say what they feel about "Thank you for your service." About using drugs on patrols. A sampling of grunts' grisly humor pulls no punches. Fake vets are unmasked. The author has breakfast with Muhammad Ali. He interviews the Vietnamese writer Bao Ninh. As does another man nearly twenty years later. A half dozen war poems round out this solid collection on war and its aftermath by those who were there._____________"In this book Marc Levy, who...takes us so far beyond rituals and salutes and "thank you for your service," far beyond any "baby killer" confessional, to the everyday sounds and smells of that war, starting with the "dim rustling of one hundred packs, helmets, weapons, reluctantly lifted, slung, shifted to place" ("The Quiet Time"). Marc has been writing reminiscences, poetry, fiction, and analysis for decades...----partly for himself to externalize and process what happened while working on his (considerable) craft, but also with the archivist's sense of social purpose. He has made his memories available to all on his website, and elicits personal accounts and essays from fellow veterans. Marc's essays and poetry tell us of the intimate costs of war, how it creeps into the soul, and the complexity and contradictions of an Army medic's experience within the massive structure of the military machine."Janet McIntosh, ChairDepartment of Anthropology, Brandeis University

How long is The Best of Medic in the Green Time?

The Best of Medic in the Green Time by Marc Levy is 598 pages long, and a total of 154,284 words.

This makes it 202% the length of the average book. It also has 189% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Best of Medic in the Green Time Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 14 hours and 3 minutes to read The Best of Medic in the Green Time aloud.

What Reading Level is The Best of Medic in the Green Time?

The Best of Medic in the Green Time is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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