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Beautiful and heartbreaking without being over the top, understated if anything. War is awful and every day that goes by my sons get closer to registering for the draft and I myself becoming more and more of a pacifist.
The most difficult thing about war writing is how to convey the feeling of being there. After reading Slaughterhouse 5, What it is Like to go to War, and The Things They Carried, two using fiction and one using memoir, it seems that they are fumbling with something they cannot convey. Maybe it is impossible to do so without it being lumped into whining or glorifying. It seems to come off as one or the other. Of the three books, O'Brien best captures the feelings of being in a war and more import
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had a hard time getting into it. it seemed kind of flowery for stories about war at first, but then I decided I had to try harder and give it more chance because poetic language for war isn't reserved only for ancient literature. But I still didn't love it.
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