18ck 's review for:

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

4.0

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A well-crafted novel about Vietnam. I didn't find it as enthralling as Going After Cacciato, but then it's a very different kind of book. It's in the form of short episodes, and based, I believe, much more directly on his own experience of war, incorporating real events and real feelings, death and terror, rather than the fantastic, picaresque adventure of the earlier book. My favourit part was the very earliest section, in which the actual physical items carried by the soldiers are central to the narrative.