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Going After Cacciato by Tim O’Brien

I read this book after reading (and loving) The Things They Carried.  This book in some ways is very familiar and similar to that.  Some of the same characters and similar stories are told.  Yet they are told in a different format where reality and the main character’s hallucinations are mixed together.  The quote at [...]

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The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien

This Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien reads like a collection of short stories jumping from characters and situations of the Alpha Company in the Vietnam War.  The way this book was organized as short stories, or chapters, that were not necessarily in chronological order or leading from one to the next helped me in [...]

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