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@carbuckety's m*a*s*h sideblog | focused mainly on the book & movie

Hawkeye doll comes in fatigues and with scrubs as a change of outfit included. You can buy the blue Hawaiian shirt and the bathrobe and that's it. He also has a martini and two to three surgical instruments as accessories. And a stethoscope.

Movie Hawkeye doll comes in the Hawaiian shirt, with his little golfing outfit as a change of clothes, and the scrubs are sold separately. (And also, oddly hard to find.) His accessories are a bucket hat, a martini glass (obviously!), and a golf driver club.

Book Hawkeye is just the same, but his accessories are a 'black capsule', some Trapper Jesus polaroids, and poker cards.

i'm reading MASH goes to Maine right now, i was wondering if there are any of the books you recommend more than others and why

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Aw I'm glad you turned to me! :) The book I recommend above all others is, of course, the first one. The only story that actually takes place during the Korean War, and is the (shaky) foundation of the TV show so many know and love... it's also a riot, I think it's probably the funniest book and definitely the most engaging, and anyone only familiar with the show or movie will recognize the most faces here.

None of the other books take place in Korea or wartime at all, it's mostly just the gang cavorting around until they get to the place in the title and then the plot somewhat halts. Most of the beloved characters from the first book don't appear in any of the sequels. So keep that in mind while reading - could you really call it MASH if it doesn't take place in a MASH unit? Well, maybe... ehhhh... that's a question for another day.

But M*A*S*H goes to Maine definitely isn't a bad followup, I did enjoy reading it, although I found it a bit hard to get into the new characters and that's true for the rest of the books as well.

Other MASH books I recommend... well, all of them are relatively brief and make for some good laughs, if their plots aren't the strongest. To me, they become a bit interchangeable and blend together. M*A*S*H goes to San Francisco isn't bad, you should give that one a look. (That's the one I finished most recently so it's the most prominent in my brain, though.) I don't think there's much chronological order to the books so you don't necessarily have to read any except the first to understand what's going on.

Sorry this took so long to get to! Happy reading!

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Here's some sources which describe each class, but bear in mind that different scholars use different metrics to measure 'class' and income isn't an accurate way to judge unless you adjust for inflation.

Feel free to elaborate in the tags.

This would be too long in the tags so I hope you don't mind me making an addition to your post! I am basing my interpretation off the book, where we have a relatively clear picture of Hawkeye's family, not just through what he tells the other characters but through a letter he receives from his father. I think that Hawkeye comes from a working class. Here's a couple of passages from the book that I feel might illustrate my point:

Hawkeye comes from a big family in a small town, where none of his brothers appear to have jobs or a formal education except for him, and his father consistently has to bail them out of jail, which his father complains about and asks why doesn't Hawkeye send the money to do it. While this doesn't necessarily mean that he comes from a poorer family, the implication, especially from a book written in 1968, would probably be that his background is not especially wealthy.

We never get a confirmation (as far as I can remember) of what Hawkeye's father does for a living - the closest we get is a memory Hawkeye reminisces on about hauling lobster traps with his dad, which may mean that his father is a fisherman or something like that, but it could have just been a father-son bonding thing.

But he's probably not also a doctor, since a passing thought from Frank means... well, I'm not entirely sure what it means. After reading this 5 times over my brain has melted. But I think it means Benjamin Pierce Sr. is no surgeon.

That and if he had a doctor's income Benjamin Sr. probably wouldn't be complaining so much about Hawkeye never sending money for his brothers' bail. He seems to think Hawkeye makes enough money being a surgeon to be doing that, anyway.

Sooo... those are my thoughts on that. *Looks at watch* I should have finished my biology final like 2 hours ago but I'm doing this instead... Lol.

Enough Trapper vs BJ rivalry. Give me post-war Hawkeye moves to Boston and tries to hang out with his old friends but ends up having to negotiate a peace treaty that makes the Korean War look like child's play because Charles thinks Trapper is beneath contempt and Trapper is trying to kill Charles with his bare hands.

And Hawkeye is extremely proud of the fact that he beat Trapper, I might add. And their football game is what they first bond over, and how Trapper becomes a part of their little gang!

god I forgot I started writing a fic about Frank and that gay guy he talked to on the phone... what I had was so good too

@carbuckety so what I have written so far is mostly set up for an eventual gay rendezvous. I'm feeling crazy so this is all of it (it's like 700 words) under the cut!

From the MASH Matters Podcast

Our sweet Eileen. Our sassy Rosie.

On behalf of her husband Bob, we extend sincere appreciation for the hundreds of M*A*S*H fans who filled Eileen’s final days with peace, encouragement, and love. She read every email and responded to as many as she could.

We will share more remembrances of Eileen Saki throughout the day. You are invited to do the same.

Our sweet, sweet Eileen. How we love you. How we will miss you.

just heard about Eileen Saki. may she rest in peace- she has the love of the MASH family forever and ever. one of my favorite parts of the show is Rosie’s- it lives on my body in permanent ink forever! love to her and her family and everyone who knew her.

Oookay, I was going to make a post about Radar's clairvoyance as described in the book, but I got a bit sidetracked because the copy I borrowed from the Internet Archive has the cutest cover ever hello.

Here it is! I'm utterly in love. From left to right: Trapper, Hawkeye, and Duke.

Also, have some in-book character descriptions!

Trapper doesn't have a description so exact, because he doesn't really show his face for a while.

Eventually he comes out of his shell and is described as having dark hair, but I can't find the passage right now. Also, I should probably be doing my French homework instead of this... so not much time to go on a deep dive.

(I know, it's funny to think about how different Trapper & Hawkeye seem in comparison to their show counterparts! As I often say, it's like they got switched around. Well, because essentially they did.)

Also, just gotta call out the little nods to the book here! Trapper is holding a football - a reference, probably, to both the big football game that takes up the last third of the book, and the fact that he used to play college football and that's how he and Hawkeye met, when Hawkeye beat Trapper's team at the very last second. Hawkeye is holding cards, which is a reference to the fact that they sure love poker at the 4077th - there's a game going on at all times run by Painless Pole, that Hawkeye & co drop by occasionally. And Duke & Trapper are holding martini glasses - yes, the surgeons of the book 4077th love a good dry martini as much as the show doctors! Trapper is also holding a golf club, which is from the part of the book where he and Hawkeye leave the 4077th to operate on a general's son, and play a hell of a lot of golf as the "pro from Dover" (Hawkeye) and his friend.