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Title: Don't Mean Nothin'

Author: Robert C. Marsett

Narrator: Dennis Serra

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-17-13

Publisher: RANGES Press

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Fresh out of high school, young Bobby Marshall enters the Army and soon finds himself in the raw world of war that is Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. His exploits on the ground and in the air make up the graphic story of what Vietnam was for the small cadre of Army aviators that crewed the famed but little understood OV-1 Mohawk. Join Bobby as he matures from a typical teenager to a seasoned soldier in this story of Cambodia and Vietnam.

The story takes us into the coarse and gritty day-to-day existence of Bobby Marshall as he struggles to survive. While counting down his 365 days in country, he is looking forward to the day he can board the freedom bird for "The World" - for home. Despite his outward cynicism and callousness, he still maintains an inward humanity, holds onto his pride, and pushes ahead with an unwavering drive to finish the task at hand.

Members Reviews:

Very abrupt ending...Fixed

As I was reading on my Kindle...noticing that I was coming to the end of the story...I thought there is no way that there is enough time to get resolution, unless the guy just wakes up in cold sweat and the whole story was a dream...which would have thoroughly ticked me off......but as others mentioned, perhaps in this kindle edition download something got missed.?

The first half of the book skips around a bit in time while the second half deals with an escape and evade survival story. I have read several of the shot down, escape and evade (E/E) Vietnam War stories and this one good but not the best. BAT-21 to me is a better read of an E/E story and pretty close to the real life event That being said this has a few more personal touches that surround the life of the main character so I felt it was worth the time

I found myself pushing myself for the last half of the book to get to the end and see how it was all going to play out. Again after reading several similar stories I sort of guessed how it would end. Then boom...it really didn't end. We are left hanging and back in the 1980's at the Wall. If this is the ending intended, to allow us all to figure out what happened, I feel cheated.

Update May 2014.....I received word that many received botched version in the download Kindle version. There was a chapter missing. I was notified today that the Kindle version was fixed and reloaded and re-read the final two chapters. This was a better ending and made me feel much better about the book. Thanks for fixing and thanks for notification of the fix.

"I come to Vietnam to kill Communists"

Thai Sergeant Nevett had a vendetta but Charlie was only one enemy in Vietnam for the Americans who served there. You first had to battle the gunny in basic. Then you had to battle the jungle. And with it, the insufferable bouts of diarrhea, the slugs, mosquito bites, fumbling with maps, the rain, the mud and probably some friendly fire too. If you made it home, good for you. For some, chances were nobody gave two cents about what you did or the things, good or bad, you saw others do. That was the enemy fought the hardest for the ones who came home. And this personal story is the one Robert Marsett wants to tell in Don't Mean Nothin'.

Bobby's tale is fictional, but it's obvious from the specifics Marsett is writing from experience.