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  • Javacat

    javacat said:

    O'Brien recommendations?

    I found this book subtely disturbing and wonderfully well written. Has anyone out there read more of O'Brien's work? Is there another that you would recommend?

    posted Tuesday, May 15 2007
  • shkza

    shkza said:

    i've read 'em all and there are a couple other o'brien books which are must reads. specifically, going after cacciato and the things they carried. more recent o'brien books have strayed - to thier considerable detriment - from what he does better than any other living writer: unflinchingly chronicle what it was like to be a soldier in vietnam. going after cacciato won the national book award and uses the war as a backdrop for an epic journey by a group of soldiers. the things they carried is a collection of loosely linked stories, which may well be o'brien's masterwork. i love in the lake of the woods without reservation, but i think these other two books made it possible and easily stand alongside it as some of the great fiction of the past 30 years.

    posted Saturday, May 19 2007
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