After learning about Vietnam through my school's AP History course, I had expectations about the plot of the book already. I read it and got what I predicted with the foggy swamps and jungles filled with the unknown, and for a book meant to sound like nonfiction, these descriptions were plentiful. What I wasn't prepared for were the deep thoughts of the writer himself mingling with the accounts of his character's life as a soldier. All in all, it was one of those reads that left me wondering how I felt about it afterwards.