Listening to this as an audiobook, and other than the fact that the futility and horror of the war in Afghanistan consistently makes me want to drive off the road, I'm really enjoying it so far...

... and it only got better from there. Junger's voice -- both speaking and writing -- is wonderfully evocative, and tracing his journey with an individual platoon over the course of five separate visits was truly amazing. It humanized the soldiers and the war in a way nothing else ever has for me.