A review by abbyyyedge
Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien

4.0

Good and confusing in a good way. Writers blow my mind sometimes. How did Tim O’Brien even figure out how to write this book. It’s a non linear narrative, plus it has a little bit of magical realism (which just matched the dizziness and confusion and mania of the Vietnam war so well, it really blows my mind). I say, don’t read this just because you liked The Things They Carried because it really is very different. But O’Brien’s style (and in some places, you could tell he was drawing from the same Nam memory as he did in TTTC, I’m looking at you, baby water buffalo scene), so it’s like, if you liked TTTC and also separately are interested in the Vietnam war and this novel as it’s own entity and not as a sequel, you’ll like this. Correlation doesn’t equal causation, kiddos.
Anyways I really liked it and Tim O’Brien is such a good writer imo that it’s ok that he pretty much just writes about Vietnam.