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This is a beautiful book. It's a war book for those who don't like war books, poetry for those who don't read poetry, an inspirational tale for those who don't read self-help. It's amazing and powerful... a must-read.

WOW!! This book gave me a whole new respect for our men and women in uniform ... both past and present. It's a good and quick read, but also sometimes it is difficult to read and comprehend what the author is trying to get across. I think this is a book that you need to read once ... wait a bit and then reread it and you'll get different things out of it the second and third times.

The Things They Carried won France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and the Chicago Times Heartland Prize; it was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award. They carried malaria tablets, love letters, 28-pound mine detectors, dope, illustrated Bibles, each other. And, if they made it home alive, they carried unrelenting images of a nightmarisih war that hisoty is only beginning to absorb. The Things They Carried has become an unparalleled Vietnam testament, a classic work of American literature, and a profound study of men at war that illuminates the capacity, ante the limits, of human heart and soul.

Wow! I've read stories about Viet Nam before. My brother was there and I wanted to learn about what they went through. But this book.... more than any other book... let me feel what they felt, suffer through the experiences that became a part of who they became, feel the burden of the physical and mental things they had to carry. I felt like I was there with him, as his buddy sunk into the stinking mud and he couldn't pull him out. If you want to come as close as possible to understanding those things which a soldier could never talk about, after he came home...... this is the book for you. All I can say is....wow!!!

One of the all time great books about a grunt in 'Nam. There are a few books that are must reads about the Vietnam war, "Dear America, Letters From Nam"," We Were Soldiers", and this one.

Well writen, difficult to read at times. Although it speaks to the Vietnam vet experience it can give light to the expereince of the OIF/OEF veteran. Not for the faint of hear.