Finished this today.
His writing style is not something that I'm particularly keen
on. He bares it all in a somewhat overwrought and
melodramatic manner. I'm more into a Hemingway-like style.
That might be just as overwrought and melodramatic, but it's
capped with a stoicism that let's tension build, and leaves
you with something at the end besides a boiled-over mess.
O'Brien is also continually philosophizing. Personally, I'm
more in favor of the Hemingway code hero's rule that you
don't talk about it. I would rather read the story straight
and be left to extract the philosophy from the subtext by
myself.
Nevertheless, I liked the stories. I wouldn't rank them in
the Literature category, but I could be wrong on that. He's
got a lot of blue ribbons from the literary state fair. The
stories are all related to the Vietnam war, and they follow a
progression.
miker
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