Title: They carried Boring Stories?
Product review: They're just not compelling. O'Brien is not a great writer at all. He repeats lines over and over, gives us the punch line and then repeats it at the end of a story, then next story repeats a line because he must think the solid repetition moves us to deeper emotion. His pro-war stance, the idea that war makes men is severely outdated. Vietnam may be his obsession but the goal of literature is not to write for therapy but to write for clarity and experience. He is unable to all of these. It comes off like the party bore who won't stop talking about a single subject, crying to make sure you feel the emotion along the way. Many better books on Vietnam exist out there. That this was a Pulitzer finalist is a true insult to many better writers.
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