Every Shape Every Shadow edition by Roger L Conlee Literature Fiction eBooks
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Every Shape, Every Shadow offers a powerful and dramatic fictional account of the pivotal World War II battle fought in the Pacifc at Guadalcanal. It is historical fiction at its finest.
Every Shape Every Shadow edition by Roger L Conlee Literature Fiction eBooks
...it just didn't grab me.Over the years I've read many books about WW2, fiction & non-fiction. This story just never took me "into the trenches." The tale revolves around a brief moment in time of a USMC protagonist who has an uncanny knack for being the originator of just about every well-recognized nickname that came out of the Guadalcanal operation: "Bloody Ridge", "Iron Bottom Sound", "Tokyo Express", "Guadalcanal Diary". After a while this literary technique became an irritant, distracting from the plot and demeaning the history. When the author introduces a USN nurse as the potential love interest, it was just about all I could do to finish the book. If I had the author's ear when he was writing I would have asked him what this character added to the storyline. For me it was an unnecessary decoration. I think I would have been more amenable to this ultimate rendez-vous if she was brought into the story much earlier rather than one-third of the way into the narrative. At this late stage in the tale you just knew her character was created to satisfy a forced situation.
Look, you may enjoy light reading. You may enjoy a superficial story about war. If you combine the two you may enjoy this book and that's great. I'm happy that you found something you enjoyed. All I'm saying is that this level and manner of story-telling didn't work for me.
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Every Shape Every Shadow edition by Roger L Conlee Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
The only regret I have in regards to reading Every Shape, Every Shadow A Novel of Guadalcanal is that I was not able to read it 30 years ago. Roger Conlee brought to life the honest emotions our brave men experienced in the jungles of Guadalcanal. Having been married to a Vietnam Veteran for over 35 years, only now can I say that I have some understanding of the horrors he, along with his fellow soldiers, experienced. Even though they are different wars, I see that the fears and anxieties are closely related. I was a novice as to the details of the taking of Guadalcanal but now I have been enlightened through Conlee's ever present detail to historic accuracy. Yes the novel is fiction, but cetainly reads like non-fiction. In developing his emotionally charged storyline, Conlee includes a roster of historical characters adding even more credence to the drama taking place. Thank you Roger for telling "...the story that needed to be told."
Author Roger Conlee is an avid historian, an excellent researcher and a gifted writer and he combines all his talents into producing a WWII classic story called "Every Shape, Every Shadow - A Novel of Guadalcanal". There are few war novels that rise to this level of expertise. He writes as if he were there among the men who lived and fought there. Not only that but he gives the reader views of the battle from both sides allowing us to learn something about the Japanese commanders as well. We even get to listen to Tokyo Rose broadcasting her propaganda to the troops about ready to do battle.
Conlee captures the feelings and sense of the battle that those who were there might have felt. He shares both some real and fictional letters home that give a more personal insight to those men and adds another layer of emotions to his story. The book feels like non-fiction and reads like a thrill action adventure tale of war. His use of dialogs helps us to get a better sense of who each character in the story is; and it carries the plot along effortlessly. His descriptions of the battle and inner sense of what happened there makes for riveting good reading. This is a page turner; you will not want to put it down until you have finished the book even if it well past your bed time.
There have been some really great books written about the heroics of WWII and now you can now add this one to that list. It is that good! It receives the MWSA's highest book rating of FIVE STARS!
This is one of the best war novels of the year. Want to know what if felt like to be on Guadalcanal? Read this book. That's the key this is an emotionally accurate war novel, not just an historically accurate one. Really takes you back in time 60 years and puts you in the middle of Guadalcanal. Would love to see more from this author.
No argument with the other posting re. quality of content BUT The worst written-to-electronic form in 62 purchases. Presented format is broken up to the point of being unreadable, or nearly unreadable. Not used to decyphering sentence structure this bad, so will limit future purchases if they continue like this.
Roger L. Conlee's first novel, EVERY SHAPE, EVERY SHADOW, introduces Kenny Nielsen, a young marine, and the challenges he faces in the epical battle at Guadacanal. Roger shares the spirit and integrity of Kenny and his fellow marines as they fight with courage against the Japanese and their unrelenting brutal attacks. Kenny comes of age at Guadacanal through Conlee's remarkable candour of warfare and Kenny's internal conflicts. History unfolds through the shapes and shadows depicted in this novel. Roger earned the Military Writers Society of America's 2004 Distinguished Honor Award for this one.
Good novel of Marines in combat on Guadalcanal in 1942, but I have read better. The book revolves around Pvt. Ken Nielsen and his platoon mates from the invasion to the decimation of the Japanese troops on the island. Platoon Sgt. Plunkett, a big man with the strength to break an enemy soldier's neck barehanded, leads his men well. John the Baptist, a devout Christian, has trouble reconciling the Fifth Commandment with his duty as a Marine. Scupper, whose father was killed at Pearl Harbor, is driven by a bloodlust for killing Japs and more Japs in revenge. Ninetrees, a Native American, can walk silently through the thickest jungle. Feel the terror of repelling banzai charges on Bloody Ridge as the Japs try to retake the airfield as well as patrols behind enemy lines. Pistol Pete, Washing Machine Charlie, the Tokyo Express - they are all in this book. I really like the perspective of some of the Japanese they are fighting. Strange that a novel this good would come out more than 60 years after the battle was fought. Worth the read.
...it just didn't grab me.
Over the years I've read many books about WW2, fiction & non-fiction. This story just never took me "into the trenches." The tale revolves around a brief moment in time of a USMC protagonist who has an uncanny knack for being the originator of just about every well-recognized nickname that came out of the Guadalcanal operation "Bloody Ridge", "Iron Bottom Sound", "Tokyo Express", "Guadalcanal Diary". After a while this literary technique became an irritant, distracting from the plot and demeaning the history. When the author introduces a USN nurse as the potential love interest, it was just about all I could do to finish the book. If I had the author's ear when he was writing I would have asked him what this character added to the storyline. For me it was an unnecessary decoration. I think I would have been more amenable to this ultimate rendez-vous if she was brought into the story much earlier rather than one-third of the way into the narrative. At this late stage in the tale you just knew her character was created to satisfy a forced situation.
Look, you may enjoy light reading. You may enjoy a superficial story about war. If you combine the two you may enjoy this book and that's great. I'm happy that you found something you enjoyed. All I'm saying is that this level and manner of story-telling didn't work for me.
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