Humor Even in the Rain

So far I am thouroughly enjoying Going After Cocciatto for one promary reason: humor. I love a book that can make me laugh in the same way in which I love a person who can make me laugh, and this book certainly did the trick. The lieutenant reminds me of my grandad: an old man who does not really care about anything but his own current agenda, and does not care what anyone around him might think about him. The other soilders relentlessly poke fun of Cocciatto as well, but he tends to get the last laugh. I find it interesting, however, that humor is injected into a novel that concerns such serious material as the Vietnam War and a treck across the mountains, but I think that thematically this will be an interesting combination of grim reality and belly-shaking laughter.