Monday, November 16, 2009

Vietnam

One of the things I really like about Tim O'Brien's books about Vietnam is how they give you a visceral sense of being there — feeling what the physical landscape is like, the terrible heat, the dampness, the insects, the rice paddies, the mountains and villages and land-mined trails; and the psychological landscape, the constant fear and exhaustion and homesickness.

Do you think he did a good job with this? (I actually have a stronger sense of these things in his other books, but I'm curious what you think having just read "Cacciato").
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Erin said...

Not having read his other books, I can't compare, but I did think he did a good job with it in "Cacciato." I felt like there was a lot of repetition in the book, which I suppose was Paul Berlin revisiting the same memories again and again. But the repetition did reinforce that feeling of being there, the physical and psychological experience of it.

2:11 PM, November 16, 2009

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