David Foster Wallace's 10 favorite books

The late great novelist David Foster Wallace's 10 favorite books.

4. ‘The Thin Red Line,’ by James Jones

Jones, a WWII combatant himself, wrote a trilogy of books to encapsulate the emotions preceding, accompanying, and succeeding the war. The second of these books is ‘The Thin Red Line.’ In the novel, the C-for-Charlie Company is fighting to survive in Guadalcanal, an island in the Pacific theater. Jones captures the physical and mental toll of battle as could only one who had experienced it first hand. 

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