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A review by chilg1128
Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien
3.0
sooo... this is the first book in a while where as soon as I turned the last page to close the book, I immediately thought to myself "I'm gonna have to read that again." However, this time around it wasn't because it was such a great book that I wanted to go through all of the fun times I had reading it.
I'd read a Tim O'Brien book in high school and thoroughly enjoyed it. I was expecting something of the sort to happen again since I knew that O'Brien is famous for his war-related books. This one, however, threw me for a bit of a loop. It took me far too long to realize that there were several story timelines at play. What made it worse was that they were all mixed up in both their order along with the chronological order. The only way I even became aware was after the third or fourth chapter of the same name, "The Observation Post."
I think between the overwhelming confusion mixed with the literary metaphors at play, I was in a bit over my head with this one. Had I known that it was going to be more of a figurative piece of literature rather than just a run-of-the-mill war novel, then I may have been more impressed and probably even more intrigued by the book. But, since I am the reader that I am (one who creates some level of a pre-judgment for books I have no idea about), I set myself up for a bit of a failure on this one. Maybe in the future if I re-visit this novel I'll be a bit more keen to what O'Brien is trying to say with Paul Berlin's imaginary story that coincides with his experience in the Vietnam War.
I'd read a Tim O'Brien book in high school and thoroughly enjoyed it. I was expecting something of the sort to happen again since I knew that O'Brien is famous for his war-related books. This one, however, threw me for a bit of a loop. It took me far too long to realize that there were several story timelines at play. What made it worse was that they were all mixed up in both their order along with the chronological order. The only way I even became aware was after the third or fourth chapter of the same name, "The Observation Post."
I think between the overwhelming confusion mixed with the literary metaphors at play, I was in a bit over my head with this one. Had I known that it was going to be more of a figurative piece of literature rather than just a run-of-the-mill war novel, then I may have been more impressed and probably even more intrigued by the book. But, since I am the reader that I am (one who creates some level of a pre-judgment for books I have no idea about), I set myself up for a bit of a failure on this one. Maybe in the future if I re-visit this novel I'll be a bit more keen to what O'Brien is trying to say with Paul Berlin's imaginary story that coincides with his experience in the Vietnam War.