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Absolutely gorgeous.
My favorite passage so far, from the short story, "On the Rainy River."
First sentence (p. 37): "This is one story I've never told before."
Last paragraph (p. 58): "The day was cloudy. I passed through towns with familiar names, through the pine forests and down to the prairie, and then to Vietnam, were I was a soldier, and then home again. I survived, but it's not a happy ending. I was a coward. I went to the war."
As my daughter Madeline noted in her review of "The Things They ...more
My favorite passage so far, from the short story, "On the Rainy River."
First sentence (p. 37): "This is one story I've never told before."
Last paragraph (p. 58): "The day was cloudy. I passed through towns with familiar names, through the pine forests and down to the prairie, and then to Vietnam, were I was a soldier, and then home again. I survived, but it's not a happy ending. I was a coward. I went to the war."
As my daughter Madeline noted in her review of "The Things They ...more
Some parts of this book (of course) I found excruciating to read ... the torture/murder/war crimes ....
but the way it's written is AMAZING and I'd give it a 4.5 ...
certainly I've only learned of Vietnam previously through movies like Apocolypse Now ... the written word is often so much more Powerful. ...more
but the way it's written is AMAZING and I'd give it a 4.5 ...
certainly I've only learned of Vietnam previously through movies like Apocolypse Now ... the written word is often so much more Powerful. ...more
this book was so well-written, i was in a trance through the first chapter. it certainly opened my world just a little more. i love the list of things they carried- it was an engaging thought and i shuddered in compassion. quite nice.
eh... I wasn't a fan of this book. Some chapters/short stories are great, some are good, some are tolerable; overall, though, I was glad to be done with it.
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Harrowing and profound. A compelling commentary on the nature of truth and fiction. And not for the faint of heart.
Jul 13, 2007
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