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I've read a lot of war books. Lots of fiction, lots of non-fiction. I picked this up on my Vine account after having it in my cart for some time.

I'm confused a bit, cause it says it's fiction, but it seems, through reading it, that it's all true. Perhaps that's part of the lore of this book, I'm not sure.

I'm not sure what I can say that others haven't already, but I'm not going to say it was the best war book, let alone book - period - that I've ever read. Sure, it's good. No doubt. But better than most I've read? Um. No. I liked it. I finished it.

I liked a few of the stories a lot. Oh, that's what the book is - a collection of stories. Some are connected. Some aren't. Some crop up in later ones with no mention in between. The book is different that way. I liked that. It's not simply straight-forward writing. As much as I read, I really like that. I read 3-5 books a week. Different is good.

Still, even tho the writing is above average, the structure of the book different-good and the stories themselves interesting... I don't know. I've liked other books about war a lot more. Could be (honestly) that as I grow older, I like war less. War books, I mean. I know my views are changing, have changed. Still.

Read it. See what you think. It's short, so it won't take long.


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The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien Books Reviews

This book is amazing! I do not read war stories. For the most part I only read epic or space fiction books. Anyhow Tim O'Brien and his amazing way to write totally changed that. If you want normal length chapters, with normal flow of ideas and a organized story structure, do not read this book. If you are ready to get your head spinning with one sentence paragraphs and stories that jump all over the place and even repeat or contradict themselves, go for it, it is totally worth it.
You will either love it, or hate it. I believe there is not in between with this book
I bought this book for my English class. The story I had to read for my assignment was called "The Things They Carried", and after reading that one story, I had to read the rest. I wasn't expecting the emotional responses I had to each story. I felt as if I was there experiencing Vietnam with these soldiers. This is a realistic and very well written book.
This book has something that other books don't. The writing, the people, the words, the lack of words, a comma here or a period there. Every page is so magnificently done with a finesse of heartache, dark comedy, and raw, pure, genuineness that I've never experienced in any film or text. It's addicting yet painful to read which makes the experienced of reading it all the more powerful.

This book has something that other books don't.
This book just grabs you and won't let go. When you're finished with it it won't be finished with you. I was in the Air Force during the war - C141 cargo transport. I was never stationed in Vietnam but flying in and out several times a month. In with things needed to fight a war. Everything from soldiers to mop buckets. Out with the results. Air Evacs full of wounded, or cargo of 140 coffins filled with human remains. First book I've read in years that I didn't want to put down, but I was glad when it emded.
It’s called a novel, but it reads like a collection of war stories and essays about being an American soldier in the Vietnam War. That’s not a criticism. In fact, it’s part of the brilliance of this book. If it were thoroughly plotted, it might not feel so authentic. As war is disjointed, so is O’Brien’s book. Some of the chapters are tiny and some are lengthy. Some read more like essays than fiction, and others are clearly fictitious.

When I say that “some are clearly fictitious,” there’s always a doubt that it might just be a true story--because war is just that absurd. An example that springs to mind is one of the most engaging pieces in the work. It’s called “Sweetheart of Song Tra Bong,” and it’s about a wholesome, young girlfriend to one of the soldiers who [improbably] comes to live in the camp. The girl acclimates to the war, and soon she is going out on patrol--not with the ordinary infantry soldiers, but during the night with the Green Berets. Perhaps the moral is that some people are made for war, and it’s never who you’d suspect. As I describe it, the premise may sound ridiculous, but the way O’Brien presents it as a story told by a Rat Kiley--a fellow infantryman known to exaggerate—it feels as though there is something very true, no matter how fictitious the story might be. Before one reads “Sweetheart of Song Tra Bong” one has been primed by a chapter entitled “How to Tell a True War Story,” which tells one that truth and falsehood aren’t so clear in the bizarre world of war.

There are a couple chapters outside the period during which O’Brien (the character, who may or may not be the same as the author) is actively in an infantry unit. One early chapter describes his near attempt at draft dodging, and another talks of his time stationed at the rear after being injured. Both of these chapters offer an interesting twist in the scheme of the book overall. We find O’Brien to be a fairly typical infantry soldier, and it seems hard to reconcile this with his floating in a canoe and narrowly deciding not to make a swim for the Canadian shoreline. However, what is odder still is realizing how distraught he is to be pulled out of his unit, particularly when he realizes that he has become an outsider and the [then rookie] medic who botched his treatment is now in the in-group. This is one of the many unusual aspects of combatant psychology that comes into play in the book, along with O’Brien’s description of how devastating it was to kill.

There are 21 chapters to the book. As I said, they run a gamut, but at all times keep one reading. It’s the shortest of the Vietnam novels I’ve read—I think. When I think of works like “Matterhorn” and “The 13th Valley,” there seems to be something hard to convey concisely about the Vietnam War, but O’Brien nails it with his unconventional novel. O’Brien also uses repetition masterfully. This can be seen in the title chapter “The Things They Carried,” which describes the many things carried by an infantry soldier—both the physical items they carried on patrol and the psychological and emotional things they carried after the war. It’s a risky approach that pays off well.

I’d recommend this book for anyone—at least anyone who can stomach war stories.
I've read a lot of war books. Lots of fiction, lots of non-fiction. I picked this up on my Vine account after having it in my cart for some time.

I'm confused a bit, cause it says it's fiction, but it seems, through reading it, that it's all true. Perhaps that's part of the lore of this book, I'm not sure.

I'm not sure what I can say that others haven't already, but I'm not going to say it was the best war book, let alone book - period - that I've ever read. Sure, it's good. No doubt. But better than most I've read? Um. No. I liked it. I finished it.

I liked a few of the stories a lot. Oh, that's what the book is - a collection of stories. Some are connected. Some aren't. Some crop up in later ones with no mention in between. The book is different that way. I liked that. It's not simply straight-forward writing. As much as I read, I really like that. I read 3-5 books a week. Different is good.

Still, even tho the writing is above average, the structure of the book different-good and the stories themselves interesting... I don't know. I've liked other books about war a lot more. Could be (honestly) that as I grow older, I like war less. War books, I mean. I know my views are changing, have changed. Still.

Read it. See what you think. It's short, so it won't take long.