I have read Tim O'Brien's novel before and liked it then. Reading it again helped me relive those memories I had of The Things They Carried. The novel shows the life of a soldier in a war that everyone thought would end quickly. O'Brien has such great imagery of what things were like through his own eyes and the eyes of his other characters. What is important to realize is that O'Brien was in Vietnam but most of the Novel is historical fiction.
Some of the stories of soldiers deaths are so vivid, its scary. The Vietnam war books have very different feels to them because one is strictly fictional while O'Brien's has more reality to it. I felt more scared and ill while reading Fallen Angels, but O'Brien seems to have hit a more real soldier life. I don't know what else to say, my mind hurts from all the reading and work I've done the last few days.
This book is a great piece of literature though, I would recommend it to anybody who can comprehend the work.
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This was my first time reading this novel and I really liked the "poetic" kind of feel to it. Like you, I did not have the fear and dread of what would happen next like I did reading Fallen Angels.
Thanks for the blogs - wishing there were more --- but enjoyed what you had to say.
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