Using the audiobook version makes it good getting the emotional voice of a Vietnam solider/veteran.

After surviving Vietnam, it was nice to see Tim graduate from one of Boston's best... Harvard University.

n  The Things They Carriedn By Tim O'Brian work is even a more popular Vietnam work.

“All the soul searching and midnight conversations and books and beliefs were voided by abstention, extinguished by forfeiture, for lack of oxygen, by a sort of sleepwalking default”

I learned from this book. I missed the Vietnam draft by a day. I turned 18 at just the right moment. I appreciate this book for showing me what I missed. And I’m so grateful I did. Thank-you, Mr O’Brien, for the priceless information. I am glad you came home safely.

Tim O'Brien is always haunting. Though I didn't love this quite as much as "The Things They Carried" (the ultimate Vietnam book IMO), or my all time love "In the Lake of the Woods" (words can't express the adoration I have for that chaotic beautiful mess), If I Die in a Combat Zone is disturbing and painful and written with the clarity and disdain the subject matter deserved.

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Q. why have you continued to write about Vietnam over your entire career?

A. America gave me Vietnam. I want to give it back.


watching the excellent vietnam war PBS series made me gravitate towards this frank and sensitive memoir. it’s a worthwhile read, in fact, i will read more of his.

I would have finished this book a week ago, but I've been down with the flu. I completed the book in the throes of a relentless fever, that still persists as I write this, but that fever might have added the unknown ingredient a reader needs to embrace O'Brien's work: a sort of light-headed vulnerability. O'Brien's memoir of his tour in Vietnam, some of which was written while he was there, and the rest written immediately after he was home, is visceral and introspective, unadorned and critical. This book works well in tandem with O'Brien's brilliant THE THINGS THEY CARRIED. This book seeks fact and comprehension, but TTTC—written in excerpts during the eighties, and published in 1990—strives for truth and meaning. There is no greater purpose for any work of literature.

3.5*

Tim O’Brien’s memoir about his experiences in Vietnam. O’Brien had graduated college and was not a supporter of the war. He considered going to Canada or even deserting, but eventually decided to go through with it. The reader is privy to his thought processes as he makes these difficult decisions. This book vividly describes one soldier’s tour of duty in sufficient detail to give the reader an excellent idea of what it was like to serve in Vietnam. He brings in elements of philosophy and discusses what it was like to be in the midst of another country’s civil war. It was interesting reading this book after I had already read The Things They Carried. One is fiction; one is non-fiction, but there are many obvious parallels. I count myself as a fan of Tim O’Brien’s writing and highly recommend both books.

This is an odd one. I'm reviewing over a month after I finished reading this, which is far more time than I usually leave between finishing a book and reviewing it. Had I reviewed it immediately, I would have probably kept it at the initial five-star rating that I had it at previously. However, when I think about it now, I find that I can remember the concept and the idea of the book, and a few selected things here and there, but overall nothing specific stuck in my mind; there was nothing that remained with me in detail. For that reason, I put it down a star.

This is still a good book. I enjoyed reading it, it was immersive and captivating, one of those snapshot kind of styles that really puts you in the place that it's describing. I enjoyed it thoroughly, but part of my criteria for a five-star rating is longevity. While this book deserves its praise, and certainly its place among the classics of war literature, it does not stand out in my mind as much as some of the others I've read. Aside from that, I have no complaints. It's a harsh and honest look at a pointless and unjust war; it is hardly light reading, and the events it describes will likely leave you feeling frustrated and hopeless, but you'll still be glad you read it. It is short and matter-of-fact, but not a single word is wasted. I will definitely be checking out some of the other things that O'Brien has written.

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Very poignant and poetic. Not a dull narration of events from the Vietnam war.

a military memoir of Tim O'Brien's tour of duty in the Vietnam War.....a year as a foot soldier in Vietnam