Title: Water Buffalo Soldiers
Product review: The Things They Carried is one of my least favorite books. Not only was it a war story (war stories do not hold my interest) but it was a poorly organized war story. The short story format with O'Briens interruptions about the falsness of the stories led to a broken train of thought. I understood the themes he was trying to get across but I was dissapointed with the way he choose to accomplish it. He dramatized war to the point where all I could think about was the fighting and not the character development. I did however appreciate his efforts to bring the feelings of war closer to us. The deaths of Linda and the water buffalo definately served their purpose in bringing O'Brien's feelings on the war to a level I could understand. If this book would have had a setting other than the Vietnam war then I would have apprecited it much more. I'm just tired of bieng in school and always being told to read war stories, both fact and fiction.
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