Mais le problème des souvenirs, c'est que l'on ne peut pas les oublier. On prend son inspiration là où on la trouve, c'est-à-dire dans sa propre vie, à l'intersection du passé et du présent. La circulation des souvenirs alimente une rotative dans votre tête, où ils tournent en rond pendant un certai...
Nearly 40 pages into my used copy of The Things They Carried I found a large post-it note with the words "Start here" scribbled in small print at the very top. It's the point where the novel, which till then seems to stick to the premise of viewing the Vietnam War by examining the things U.S. soldie...
The things they carried by Tim O Brien is a collection of twenty-two stories chronicling the author's recollections of his time as a soldier in the Vietnam War. About one third ways through the book I realised that this account was not entirely based on fact and that some of the stories were ficti...
They carried malaria tablets, love letters, 28-pound mine detectors, dope, illustrated bibles, each other. And if they made it home alive, they carried unrelenting images of a nightmarish war that history is only beginning to absorb. Since its first publication, The Things They Carried has become an...
Typically, I would never read a “war story”. Definitely out of my wheelhouse. This is not a war story. It is an emotionally charged character study of the human spirit told thru the combining of several short vignettes. Funny at times, tragic and disturbing in others, Tim O’Brien nails this one with...
If I could give more than five-stars to this I would, I loved it that much. I’d even say it was now one of my favourite books, with Tim O’Brien being one of my favourite authors. This is a collection of twenty-two fictional short stories about the Vietnam War, The Things They Carried being the fir...
[Still catching up on reviewing the books I read in 2014] I hope that someday we will have a world in which no one must go to war. Now, we are fortunate not to have an active draft in the United States -- but we are still unfortunate to live in a country that relies upon military action and the sa...
To begin, this is not a light book. That being said, it is a very good book, but not a light book. If you were confused about that, I just wanted to set the record straight.Set in Vietnam during the Vietnam war, O'Brien shares a series of short war stories that link together to form a novel. At firs...
In one of the stories of Tim O'Brien's collection The Things They Carried, the narrator admits to some details of certain events have been changed. So what exactly happened for real and what was created to tell a better story? Truth is, it doesn't matter. This is a great collection of stories about ...
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