How does /lit/ view The Things They Carried? It made me

>>7790526
Loved it OP. It was a very interesting and fun read. One of my favorite parts was when that kid wrote to his best friend's sister and she never writes back. It was nice seeing how the author wrote in a way that showed how you feel is truer than the truth and what actually happened.

>>7790526
It's the only short story I enjoyed in English lit. Wasn't overly pretentious, felt real and I had to put a lot of effort into controlling my facial muscles to avoid crying in class.

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>>7790672
*It was

>>7790526
It's pretty baller unfortunately I was diagnosed as schizoidal while reading it and my memories of it are extremely fragmented and probably none of them are true at all. I'd like to read it again but I probably cannot read for any extended length of time and also i wouldn't be able to retain much if any of the information. I might even forget about this thread after I post in it, and given that I have about 24 other tabs open at the moment that possibility is very near a reality.

>>7790685
This is sort of one of the themes of the book

dude read 'going after cacciato' it's v.good

crazy story: it's about an Iowa boy who goes to Quang Ngai in central vietnam and I, an iowa boy, happened to start reading it on the train to Quang Ngai.