O'Brien

[Aaron Yeater]

> > While i agree with previous contributors that Tim O'Brien is an 
> > excellent writer writing about Vietnam, i'm not sure he (or anyone 
> > else) has yet to produce the "great vietnam war novel".  Cacciato, 
> > The Things they Carried and In the Lake of the Woods all are about a 
> > people who were in Vietnam, but his best writing is about characters 
> > dealing with the aftermath of Vietnam--Stone's "Dog Soldiers" is much 
> 
> huh?
> We didn't read the same book, I guess.

I assume by this your refer to what was definitely left confusing in 
my message--the impression that O'Brien does not write about people 
in Vietnam.  that was not my intent--it would be ludicrous to so 
assert.  what i meant was that his best writing, imho, is not about 
the war...but about its aftermath.  just an opinion.

i assume that's what that meant...
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Aaron C. Yeater
Innovations in American Government