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6 Reddit comments about Mash: A Novel About Three Army Doctors:

u/[deleted] · 7 pointsr/todayilearned

It helps to understand the movie for which the song was written came from the book written by Richard Hooker. In the movie, the dentist- nicknamed "Painless"- decides he's depressed, and wants to die.

The suicide scene in which he is given the Black Pill while "Suicide is Painless" is sung is pretty hard-hitting, but the "rebirth" in which he is dropped out of a helicopter (shortly after being given a shot to counteract the sedative he was given) is pretty amazing, apparently curing the dentist of his depression.

The story may be apocryphal, but most of the book is said to have been compiled from actual events during the Korean War.

EDIT: Can't get the spoiler to work right. Sorry.

u/CrackerofWise · 2 pointsr/mash

Here you go. This book started it all. The franchise grew progressively further away from it though, as it's much closer in feel to the movie than any of the show.
The book spawned a plethora of sequels (most of them by a different author) that I have not read, but I'm sure someone here has.

u/frakkingcylon · 2 pointsr/AskReddit

>it's essentially MASH in book form

You know MASH was a book too right?

u/gm2 · 1 pointr/funny

Ever read the book? It's a good, quick read.

u/futureslave · 0 pointsr/books

Sounds like you might not be familiar with MAS*H as a book, which is my favorite incarnation of the story.

I get a lot of hate from fans when I tell them that in my opinion MAS*H is best as a book, great as a movie, worst as a TV show.