The book is better than the HBO series, but both are very much written from a noncombat perspective and have a number of limitations because of that. If you enjoyed it, I’d strongly recommend trying to track down a copy of One Bullet Away.
Have done so, found it much less illuminating tbh. Fick makes it all sound normal—I assume because to him it is. Wright has an outsider’s perspective and so is more able to highlight the quirks, the absurdities, the parts that make the Marines very different from your typical corporation.
The book is better than the HBO series, but both are very much written from a noncombat perspective and have a number of limitations because of that. If you enjoyed it, I’d strongly recommend trying to track down a copy of One Bullet Away.
Have done so, found it much less illuminating tbh. Fick makes it all sound normal—I assume because to him it is. Wright has an outsider’s perspective and so is more able to highlight the quirks, the absurdities, the parts that make the Marines very different from your typical corporation.