ALL ABOUT CLASSIC NOVELS, classic novels you love and hate.. |
 Feb 26 2006, 05:52 AM
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Hallo, just want to talk about books, i havent found anyone to talk to about it lately..
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Mar 1 2006, 06:35 PM
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 crushed. Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 9,432 Joined: Jun 2004 Member No: 20,026 |
Hmm..
To Kill A Mockingbird The Great Gatsby The Things They Carried Les Miserables Crime and Punishment Hamlet East of Eden |
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Mar 7 2006, 10:07 PM
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 i've never wanted anything rationale. Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 8,449 Joined: May 2004 Member No: 19,045 |
QUOTE(Teesa @ Mar 1 2006, 4:35 PM)  Hmm.. To Kill A Mockingbird The Great Gatsby The Things They Carried Les Miserables Hamlet Well I love all of these books/plays minus The Things They Carried. Now, I thought it was an interesting book, but I just didn't really like it. I wasn't a fan of the writing style and I just wasn't meshing well with it. |
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Mar 21 2006, 10:02 PM
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crushed. Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 9,432 Joined: Jun 2004 Member No: 20,026 |
QUOTE(Rachel is love @ Mar 7 2006, 10:07 PM) Well I love all of these books/plays minus The Things They Carried. Now, I thought it was an interesting book, but I just didn't really like it. I wasn't a fan of the writing style and I just wasn't meshing well with it. Hmm, I see. Yeah, I just liked it because I didn't really understand what happened in the Vietnam War, so that book helped me understand more about what the soldiers went through, even though the author wasn't a soldier himself. |
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Mar 21 2006, 11:50 PM
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QUOTE(Teesa @ Mar 21 2006, 10:02 PM) Hmm, I see. Yeah, I just liked it because I didn't really understand what happened in the Vietnam War, so that book helped me understand more about what the soldiers went through, even though the author wasn't a soldier himself. yes he was. the book is "mostly fiction". "true war stories". they were true in the sense that that was how the soldiers were FEELING, but the actual events may not have been accurate. but, he was there to experience it, regardless of how much the line between fact and fiction is blurred. QUOTE Though The Things They Carried is mainly fiction, Tim O'Brien did fight in Vietnam, and he has been telling "true war stories" since he returned from the war. His stories come from his own experiences, and his desire to blur the lines between reality and fiction, between created character and living person. He believes that stories are born from real events, and therefore are forever linked to them. QUOTE O'Brien was against the war, but reported for service and was sent to Vietnam with what has been called the "unlucky" Americal division due to its involvement in the My Lai massacre in 1968, an event which figures prominently in In the Lake of the Woods.. He was assigned to 3rd Platoon, A Co., 5th Batt. 46th Inf., as an infantry foot soldier. O'Brien's tour of duty was 1969-70.
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