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abigailshupe's review
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
5.0
jq_247's review against another edition
challenging
dark
funny
informative
reflective
sad
fast-paced
5.0
coffeeandbooked's review against another edition
3.0
Orginally post here
I always have great difficulty writing reviews for memoirs due to the fact I don’t quite know how to get my thoughts across about them.
I thought this book was written well, as you are reading you kind of forget about the fact it is a memoir and this author is writing about himself. It always reads like a fiction story at points. I found I was having to remind myself that is a true account.
I thought that the feelings and the situations the soldiers went through were extremely well told and I think this book is a good story to come out of the Vietnam war.
The one thing that I did find in this book was that it went over a few things repetitively over the space of a few paragraphs.
I have another book written by Tim on my shelf that I will be getting to fairly soon, as I enjoyed his writing.
I always have great difficulty writing reviews for memoirs due to the fact I don’t quite know how to get my thoughts across about them.
I thought this book was written well, as you are reading you kind of forget about the fact it is a memoir and this author is writing about himself. It always reads like a fiction story at points. I found I was having to remind myself that is a true account.
I thought that the feelings and the situations the soldiers went through were extremely well told and I think this book is a good story to come out of the Vietnam war.
The one thing that I did find in this book was that it went over a few things repetitively over the space of a few paragraphs.
I have another book written by Tim on my shelf that I will be getting to fairly soon, as I enjoyed his writing.
abbeyhar103's review against another edition
3.0
I really wanted to love this, because I love Tim O'Brien generally. But, I came away from this feeling like I had just listened to a bunch of random war stories about Vietnam and going to Vietnam, which I know was the point of the book. I guess it made it feel a bit cliched - at this point, we've heard all this before, but it was probably more shocking or new at the time it was written. I also think he took the whole idea of storytelling much further with "The Things They Carried." Those were also many random vignettes, but they added up to the common theme of the exploration of what the word "truth" means. For me, this book didn't add up to much. Also the narrator had a really annoying Eeyore voice, so that didn't help.
frankieatthedisco's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
4.75
sloatsj's review against another edition
2.0
This was well written, but from the heap of literature on Vietnam it didn't do anything amazing or unique. And that impression of un-outstandingness seems all the more so when compared to O'Brien's fiction on Vietnam, which IS stunning and beautiful and sad.
Still, I liked this and would recommend it to anyone particularly interested in Vietnam memoirs, or any big fan of O'Brien's.
2 Stars "It was ok."
Still, I liked this and would recommend it to anyone particularly interested in Vietnam memoirs, or any big fan of O'Brien's.
2 Stars "It was ok."