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I was hoping this book would be different than it turned out to be. It didn’t feel cohesive to me, and I also wish it blended in more history. I found it really confusing, as it was billed as fiction but always felt like non-fiction, which was hard to get over for me. I did like though how it showed the reality of war. (Read for Central Book Club)

barlycorn's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.75

dorothy_gale's review against another edition

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5.0

SPARKED AN INTEREST IN VIETNAM WAR. This book made me realize I really know nothing of the Vietnam War. To have such detail for each character and describe so clearly why they carried what they did made it very real.

riiiclark's review

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2.0

Without spoilers, this book was a compilation of war stories told through Tim O'Brien's perspective in Vietnam. While some chapters link ideas to another chapter, there is skipping around chronologically. Overall it doesn't create a huge impact, at least for me as a reader. The plot of the book was interesting, but the book was assigned to me and I probably wouldn't have read it otherwise. What was enjoyable was Tim O'Brien's writing style, his use of run-on sentences and adjectives.

maysa_christmas's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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