Reading THE CAINE MUTINY

I think this book won the Pullitzer Prize in like 1952? It's a pretty fucking good World War II book. There's something so simple about a certain kind of popular fiction from the 50s (this book reminds me, in some ways, of the THE MAN IN THE GREY FLANNEL SUIT). Everything is just set up in such a simple way. Here you've got a midshipman who's kind of a …