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     • Tim O'Brien's (1990) is considered one of the finest books about the Vietnam War. Far from a combat story of pride and glory, it is a compassionate tale of the American soldier, brimming with raw honesty and thoughtful reflection.
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   • The Things They Carried is as good as advertised. The biggest surprise is that it had as much to say about writing and story structure as it did about the most controversial war in American history.

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   • A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling.

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   Is 'the things they carried' a novel or a memoir?

   • "The Things They Carried" isn't really a novel or memoir, it's more a collection of linked short stories, each one looking at a different aspect of the war or of Tim's life. He remembers and mourns his friends who died, and he tries to reckon with what the war really meant.

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   • O'Brien's command of prose, the marriage of the literary with the journalistic, is the chief reason to read The Things They Carried. The focus is not placed on battles or events or what happened in the war, but on how a wide variety of stimuli in Vietnam made O'Brien feel about the war.

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   • Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried" is a powerful, heartbreaking and gut-wrenching book about the Vietnam war. I had previously read the title story, which is excellent on its own, but I can thank the Ken Burns & Lynn Novick documentary for pushing me to read the entire book.

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   Is 'the things they carried' based on a true story?

   • The Things They Carried is partly based on the real experiences of acclaimed author and war veteran Tim O'Brien during the Vietnam War. It is described as a gut-wrenching combination of novel, story collection, and memoir, but contains lots of swearing and offensive language.

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   Mar 28, 1990 · A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling.

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   Jan 1, 2004 · The Things They Carried is a semi-autobiographical collection of interconnected short stories, some of them loosely structured fragments and vignettes, that represent O’Brien’s reflections on the Vietnam War experience written at the age of 43.

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   Vet's stunning, devastating Vietnam War stories; a classic. Read Common Sense Media's The Things They Carried review, age rating, and parents guide.

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   The best books on Myths of War. The Things They Carried is a semi-fictional collection of short stories about an American platoon in the Vietnam War. Narrator: Bryan Cranston. Length: 7 hours and 47 minutes. Best History Audiobooks.

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   In The Things They Carried, protagonist "Tim O'Brien," a writer and Vietnam War veteran, works through his memories of his war service to find meaning in them. Interrelated short stories present themes such as the allure of war, the loss of innocence, and the relationship between fact and fiction.

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    The Things They Carried (1990) is a collection of linked short stories by American novelist Tim O'Brien, about a platoon of American soldiers fighting on the ground in the Vietnam War. His third book about the war, it is based upon his experiences as a soldier in the 23rd Infantry Division.