Tim O'Brien brilliantly brings the Vietnam war to life with a book that blurs the line between novel, collection of short stories, and memoir. I have read a great deal of war novels, and watched a great deal of war films, and O'Brien's work is one of the best, if not the best, lenses into the unimaginable horrors, comedy, tragedy, and boredom of the front. Each note is struck with the particular skill of a man who has lived through a war, and who inserts reality into fiction in a way that carefully blurs the realities of war in a very interesting way.
4/5
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