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Brilliant characterizations that will stick with you for a long time. O'Brien's writing style works very well for the audiobook format, he (or his alter ego narrator) is a natural story teller. There is not a bad story in this book, although some are definitely darker than the others, but the two that really stood out in my mind were "The Things They Carried" and "Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong". If you've read Matterhorn and liked it, you'll like these short stories just as much.
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What a powerful book.
This book was incredibly eye-opening. With grandfathers who served in Vietnam, this insight O'Brien offers here is priceless to me. This book also offers so much to storytelling and its unique style pushes readers to read and engage with a text in a way they've likely never had to before.
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