Comments on: 60. The things they carried

By: jnonfiction

jnonfiction — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:10:53 +0000

My godfather tells me he discovered this novel after telling his psychiatrist that he feels like if he was draftable during vietnam, it would have been cowardly not to move to canada (which comprises the theme of one of the more affecting episodes in the novel).

By: e

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:13:38 +0000

Man, that should be on the website. Or at least the commencement speeches….

By: jnonfiction

jnonfiction — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:22:10 +0000

wooster: where all your youthful indiscretions get tangled up with brilliant and famous writers, greatly magnifying your regrets.

By: e

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:29:53 +0000

Amen.

Which makes it all the more embarrassing for me to say that I hadn’t gotten the “point” of the book the day I gave an angsty little diatribe in the front of my sophomore lit class about relativism, historical realism, etc.

The day Tim O’Brien sat in on the class, red baseball cap and blue flannel pulled tightly around his face to blend in with the other students.

Now I have the added self-loathing cringe whenever I even look at the cover. Surprisingly it makes the book feel even more realistic….
Sigh.