I jumped the gun

I jumped the gun and watched the movie version after finishing the first half of Jarhead. I think it just proved my point in the previous post about how much I disagree with the lack of chronological order. A flashback is something that can be much more successful in a movie than in a book. In the movie, the plot is presented in more chronological order, but the few flashbacks that there are(if you can even call them that) are brief serve the purpose of setting up the rest of the plot rather than interrupting it like in the book. Perhaps I am a classic casualty of my generation that would rather watch a movie or television than read, but I think it's more about presenting the story in the most understandable and entertaining way possible.