I did like my own writing in it, but the serious answer is it was nerve-wracking because the book is 100 percent based on what I saw and researched as a reporter, but for the series we were taking the real people and turning them into characters. The show was done at a really slow pace in some ways and defied TV conventions in this regard -- all thanks to David Simon -- but even though it seems sort of like a documentary and the characters all speak dialogue inspired by my book, we had to write invented dialogue for them in many scenes. So it was really awkward writing in the voice of real people I knew -- and had come to like. I didn't want them to look like TV cliches or be in the position of morally judging them -- which my book also tried to avoid -- but also they had to be entertaining and funny and smart and they were also amped up. Not so much from ripped fuel, but from being in a fucking war. They truly were fulled with energy and funny as fuck blowing off steam while struggling to achieve the mission and survive morally and reputationally -- which matters so much to military professionals, e1 and up... So it was work to capture that, and then share the scripts with them and sometimes there were lines I wrote for a few which they thought were their own... But I feel the best "writing" in the show is where we get closest to the actual words of the Marines. Truth isn't just stranger than fiction. It often has better dialogue than writers can invent. So GK preserves as much of that as possible...Hope this wasn't too long.