James Jones

From Here to Eternity (2004)

1st from jones for me. i'd read the name in heller's memoir, Now and Then: From Coney Island to Here: A Memoir...never read the story, although i'd heard/read about it...perhaps saw it on the shelf a time or two...no recall if i saw a movie w/the same title...and figured now is the time to give i...

Some Came Running (1979)

The Thin Red Line (1998)

A true masterpiece and one of my favorite novels. Although it has all the realistic, gritty detailing that any novel recounting World War 2 Guadalcanal should have, it is so much more. The reader will indeed learn which gun is which and which rank is which. They will understand what needs to happ...

The Pistol (Phoenix Fiction) (2003)

Go to the Widow-Maker (2011)

I've never had much luck with Jones's classic FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (158 pages seems to be the furthest into it I've ever gotten), and I recall making a half-hearted attempted at the opening pages of this novel ages ago. Lately I found myself with an impulse to try it again; it starts out slowly,...