by Tim O'Brien
“In battle, in a war, a soldier sees only a tiny fragment of what is available to be seen. The soldier is not a photographic machine. He is not a camera. He registers, so to speak, only those few items that he is predisposed to register and not a single thing more. Do you understand this? So I am sa...
"You VC?" he demanded of a little girl with braids. "You dirty VC?" The girl smiled. "Shit, man," she said gently. "You shittin' me?"I met Tim O'Brien briefly when he toured for [b:In the Lake of the Woods|3447|In the Lake of the Woods|Tim O'Brien|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1349080604s/3447.jpg|11...
Paul Berlin goes to Vietnam and falls through a rabbit hole on a mission to bring back a member of his squad who's gone AWOL -- to Paris. Brilliant, hallucinatory and hypnotic, the narrative jumps around, jumbling continuity, reality, fear, duty and dreams as it deftly and completely messes with you...
When I read and loved The Things They Carried I went back and read all of O'Brien's backlist. I'm afraid I didn't really get this one.
When I read and loved The Things They Carried I went back and read all of O'Brien's backlist. I'm afraid I didn't really get this one.
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