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A review by carrieprice78
The Nuclear Age by Tim O'Brien
2.0
I could not finish this book and I normally love Tim O'Brien's writing. I think another reviewer said it best: "ceaseless." This story just hammers away at you ceaselessly. The dialog doesn't work. The effort to establish the narrator as crazy goes overboard. It's just too much. I think this is one of O'Brien's first and I can say with certainty that he improved in later books. O'Brien tries too hard to deal with too many subjects at once, here.
Merged review:
I could not finish this book and I normally love Tim O'Brien's writing. I think another reviewer said it best: "ceaseless." This story just hammers away at you ceaselessly. The dialog doesn't work. The effort to establish the narrator as crazy goes overboard. It's just too much. I think this is one of O'Brien's first and I can say with certainty that he improved in later books. O'Brien tries too hard to deal with too many subjects at once, here.
Merged review:
I could not finish this book and I normally love Tim O'Brien's writing. I think another reviewer said it best: "ceaseless." This story just hammers away at you ceaselessly. The dialog doesn't work. The effort to establish the narrator as crazy goes overboard. It's just too much. I think this is one of O'Brien's first and I can say with certainty that he improved in later books. O'Brien tries too hard to deal with too many subjects at once, here.