If I die in a combat zone: Box me up and ship me home
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.26 (778 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0006XJY1C |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 251 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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"O'Brien is not a great writer" according to Nocturnal. and I've read more "involved" books by Vietnam vets. Many of the boys who served in VN were/are my peers and I have very confused feelings about the VN war. It changed our lives, maybe partly because of the kind of young people we were. And I continue to have the need to read the memoirs (even if fictionalized) of the VN vets. O'Brien brings his stories in his books. But I always get the feeling he has walled off a lot of his personal emotions about this war, you ge. "Good, but not his best" according to Dan Lesnick. Having read O'Brien's "The Things They Carried" first, this book seemed a bit dry and journalistic in comparison. It started out slow, and never really pulled me in the way the other did. In this book there are flashes of O'Brien's lyrical, dream-like brilliance, but never as consistent or as seemingly tangible as in "The Things They Carried."In this book, O'Brien brings the reader along with him from the moment he first learns that he is to be drafted until he is o. "A Brilliantly Written, Searing, Vietnam Memoir" according to Jana L.Perskie. Tim O'Brien is an extraordinarily talented writer. This painful and disturbing memoir of his year as a foot soldier in Vietnam, is a vivid and heartfelt chronicle.O'Brien "grew out of one war and into another." He is the son of a WWII soldier, "who fought the great campaign against the tyrants of the 19A Brilliantly Written, Searing, Vietnam Memoir Jana L.Perskie Tim O'Brien is an extraordinarily talented writer. This painful and disturbing memoir of his year as a foot soldier in Vietnam, is a vivid and heartfelt chronicle.O'Brien "grew out of one war and into another." He is the son of a WWII soldier, "who fought the great campaign against the tyrants of the 1940s." His mother served in the WAVES. Drafted in the summer of 1968, "Nam-bound," O'Brien thought the war was "wrongly conceived and poorly justified," and seriously . 0s." His mother served in the WAVES. Drafted in the summer of 1968, "Nam-bound," O'Brien thought the war was "wrongly conceived and poorly justified," and seriously
Before writing his award-winning Going After Cacciato, Tim O'Brien gave us this searing, intensely personal account of his year as a foot soldier in Vietnam. The author takes us with him -- to experience combat from behind an infantryman's rifle, to walk the minefields of My Lai, to crawl into the ghostly tunnels, and to explore the ambiguities of manhood and morality in a war gone terribly wrong. Beautifully written and heartfelt, If I Die in a Combat Zone has been hailed as a masterwork of art in its genre.
"The AWOL bag was ready to go, but I wasn't. "When you are ordered to march through areas such as Pinkville--GI slang for Song My, parent village of My Lai you do some thinking. You look ahead a few paces and wonder what your legs will resemble if there is more to the earth in that spot than silicates and nitrogen. Award-winning novels such as Going After Cacciato and The Things They Carried offer up a surreal view of the war: a soldier who decides to walk to Paris, leaving only a trail of M&M's in his wake; a young man who imports his high-school girlfriend to his base camp high in the jungled mountains, only to lose her to a shadowy squad of Special Forces Green Berets and to "that mix of unnamed terror and unnamed pleasure" that was Vietnam. Family, the home