false 133518 22 "They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. They carried shameful memories. They carried the common secret of cowardice.... Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to." A finalist for both the 1990 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, <I>The Things They Carried</I> marks a subtle but definitive line of demarcation between Tim O'Brien's earlier works about Vietnam, the memoir <I>If I Die in a Combat Zone</I> and the fictional <I>Going After Cacciato</I>, and this sly, almost hallucinatory book that is neither memoir nor novel nor collection of short stories but rather an artful combination of all three. Vietnam is still O'Brien's theme, but in this book he seems less interested in the war itself than in the myriad different perspectives from which he depicts it. Whereas <I>Going After Cacciato</I> played with reality, <I>The Things They Carried</I> plays with truth. The narrator of most of these stories is "Tim"; yet O'Brien freely admits that many of the events he chronicles in this collection never really happened. He never killed a man as "Tim" does in "The Man I Killed," and unlike Tim in "Ambush," he has no daughter named Kathleen. But just because a thing never happened doesn't make it any less true. In "On the Rainy River," the character Tim O'Brien responds to his draft notice by driving north, to the Canadian border where he spends six days in a deserted lodge in the company of an old man named Elroy while he wrestles with the choice between dodging the draft or going to war. The real Tim O'Brien never drove north, never found himself in a fishing boat 20 yards off the Canadian shore with a decision to make. The real Tim O'Brien quietly boarded the bus to Sioux Falls and was inducted into the United States Army. But the truth of "On the Rainy River" lies not in facts but in the genuineness of the experience it depicts: both Tims went to a war they didn't believe in; both considered themselves cowards for doing so. Every story in <I>The Things They Carried</I> speaks another truth that Tim O'Brien learned in Vietnam; it is this blurred line between truth and reality, fact and fiction, that makes his book unforgettable. <I>--Alix Wilber</I> 1235619 book 1990 The Things They Carried total:19403|5:8120|4:7179|3:3196|2:718|1:190| 19403 80530 24899 2079 5 7 false false Sun Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 1991 Thu Oct 11 19:28:27 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 17 10:34:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 5 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Mon Feb 16 20:01:14 -0800 2009 Tue Apr 14 10:01:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 5 false false Sat Nov 03 07:05:21 -0700 2007 Sat Nov 03 07:19:36 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 3 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Sep 14 12:34:23 -0700 2007 Sun Dec 09 06:25:47 -0800 2007 more...]]> 0 2 false false Tue Jun 09 15:03:46 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 14:01:34 -0700 2009
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They carried all the emo...more...]]> 1 2 false false Tue Jul 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 07 19:28:28 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 29 11:25:30 -0700 2008 The Things They Carried is extremely well-written. O'Brien is a good, tight writer who knows how to weave a story. But even while I admire his style and technique, I am put off by the emptiness and moral vacuum he leaves when his machine guns and grenades finish ripping open ...more...]]> 4 2 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 18 18:56:55 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 01 20:04:23 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 15 01:17:12 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 15 01:32:09 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 16 22:49:30 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 16 23:00:40 -0700 2007
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The stories of the author, a sergeant in Vietnam in 1968, are vivid and engaging. He combines visceral description, a tour of force for the senses, while utilizing incisive and highly inventive metaphors to bridge the gap between the war stories and the...more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Dec 16 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 18 15:12:26 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 18 15:18:32 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu Oct 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 22 15:52:18 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 27 14:42:57 -0700 2008 The Things They Carried is an extraordinary novel by author Tim O'brien. O'brien has also written Going After Cacciato, If I Die in a Combat Zone , and many others. This novel is written as the thoughts of O'brien while he is looking back on the Vietnam War thirty years later. Each story told has a...more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Aug 08 05:19:49 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 08 05:20:00 -0700 2008 Both books are fictionalized tales of survival – O’Brien’s a...more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Aug 06 18:03:54 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 06 18:04:33 -0700 2008 War books aren't my thing, as a rule, but this book caught my eye when I was browsing at our local Barnes & Noble before I left for the Philippines. The things that attracted my interest:
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