Things They Carried: An Autobiography: An award-winning history and politics memoir of the Vietnam War

You don't get to hear a lot about these gems but such books deserve more promotion and appreciation. Amazing work.

The thing youll notice about the book is the writing style not coherent youd think but it still makes sense. I guess for a war story it is something that adds meaning to the book as compared to a straightforward narrative

Tim O'Neil had me enthralled from the start. This is my era and this book is outstanding.

Mandatory reading if you want to make sense of what is going on in our part of the world. Beautiful prose.

The Things They Carried was an astoundingly good read. I had heard various stories and watched certain films (Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket etc.) which depict the harshness and brutality of what went on in Vietnam during the war, so I wasn't completely ignorant of the war in that respect. However, I still found that this book touched me more than any other regarding the seriousness and the fact that Vietnam was such a massive event for so many people during those times. I found myself thinking of my own father, and how he would have been drafted had we grew up as Americans, and how this could have totally changed my own life. Or how I, currently a 28 year old could have easily been thrust into a situation like Vietnam. The book had me thinking of so much and touched me in a way that few books have. Insightful, well written and a must for anyone and everyone to read. This isn't a war story, its a story of the human spirit and the things they had to endure.

Un merveilleux ouvrage entre le roman, les nouvelles et la poésie. Sur la guerre du Viet Nam, certes mais qui pourrait décrire l'âme de tous ceux qui, un jour, se retrouvent une arme à la main, jeunes et ne sachant pas pourquoi ils sont là. Plus que tout, un chef d'oeuvre de la littérature mondiale.

Un libro dove forma e contenuto raggiungono una simbiosi davvero straordinaria; metamoderno, nella sua decostruzione del medium del "racconto di guerra," e al contempo nel suo utilizzo cosciente e puro. Lo stile è diretto, sommario, nell'asprezza distaccata della narrazione; la certezza espressiva nel racconto rende evidente più che mai l'ambiguità di tutto ciò che è la guerra, quella guerra, il coraggio, la paura, la fraternità dei soldati.