Mail Call

Rating:
Summary: Okay, I'll say it...
Review: ... I was really disappointed by this book.

I'm a fan of "Mail Call," of course, and when I heard Gunny tell me his book was coming out, I made a point of securing a copy as soon as I could. This is a nice enough book, I suppose, but it could have been so much more.

If you've got copies of "Mail Call" on tape, disc, or TiVo, you already have this book, which consists entirely of questions and answers taken straight from the show. Most if not all of the illustrations appear to have come right off the screen, like some sort of old kinescope. Many of the images aren't even particularly sharp, coming as they do straight off of video. I'm not sure if there's anything here -- with the exception of a few trivia questions -- that hasn't already appeared on the show.

I'm not hatin' on Gunny (I'm not that dumb), but I want people who like him and the show and are interested in this book to know what they're getting. It's a nice souvenir for fans of the show, but it doesn't add a lot, in information or entertainment value, to what we already have on TV several times a week.

Carry on.

Rating:
Summary: Great Compliment to the TV Show
Review: I've just had the pleasure of reading this book and I have to say that it a great companion to the TV show that airs on the History Channel(of which I am a huge fan of). The book basicially gives you the G2 on a lot of things that militaries use in the past, in the present and will use in the future in that great "Gunny style".

This is a great book for fans of the show, for historians, for military mensas and for anyone who is in or knows someone who is in the military.

For these reasons, I highly recommend this book.

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Summary: The BEST book ever made!
Review: R. Lee Ermey's book "mail call' is the best book I have ever read.

the book every mail call fan should have.

takes Q's
Kicks A's

Semper Fi, Carry on!