Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

27 reviews

deathmetalheron's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Death, War, Violence, and Animal death

Moderate: Body horror, Addiction, Blood, and Racism

Minor: Physical abuse, Alcohol, Hate crime, Bullying, Colonisation, Infidelity, Medical trauma, and Racial slurs

emiliethurman's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Death

rhonifoni's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and War

Minor: Cancer, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Bullying

belovedsnail's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Probably not for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

grapesoda913's review

dark emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, and War

ada_elisabeth's review

dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

"I'm skimming across the surface of my own history, moving fast, riding the melt beneath the blades, doing loops and spins, and when I take a high leap into the dark and come down thirty years later, I realize it as Tim trying to save Timmy's life with a story." 

The Things They Carried is a slim novel, less than three hundred paperback pages, but Tim O'Brien managed to pack so many emotions, horrors, and stories into them. Told in a collection of interlocking short stories, the novel is about the Vietnam War, and O'Brien doesn't leave out a single gory detail.

The characters, especially Rat Kiley and Jimmy Cross, were dynamic, well-written, and astonishingly real. The triumph and the pain these characters felt was tangible; O'Brien's book is an extremely effective anti-war novel. 

This book was horrible in the best way, and in the horror, O'Brien managed to create something of beauty: the poetic prose and amazing story-telling of The Things They Carried made it one of the most impactful books I've ever read. 

5/5 stars. A must-read for everyone. The heartbreak, fear, and misery that this book brings is not to be ignored. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Violence, Death, War, Animal death, and Gun violence

alliekaye23's review

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

I know cruelty was a part of the Vietnam war, but one particular chapter featured extremely unwarranted violence against an innocent, and it was very hard to read. It got its point across though, absolutely. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War, Drug use, Excrement, Torture, Cancer, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Child death, Gun violence, Grief, Terminal illness, and Violence

serenity_by_jan's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Well-written reflection on the experience and consequences of war. The writing style is rather flowery and can be verbose at times, but overall it was a good read. although it is a compilation of “war stories“, it is very centralized around characters and their relationships with one another and themselves. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Death, Violence, War, Gun violence, and Animal death

Moderate: Sexual content and Suicide

Minor: Racism, Racial slurs, and Sexual assault

elizabethstrachan's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

I read this in high school, but I barely remembered anything besides how I felt afterward. Vietnam veterans weren't treated well when they got home, and this book gives an idea of all they went through over there. I mean, they were barely grown up and drafted into a war that killed a ton of people. Some of the stuff from the book I didn't support.

The poor baby buffalo didn't deserve to be tortured just because the guy's friend died. I felt for him, but it doesn't excuse torturing a helpless animal.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, War, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, and Death

redheadorganist's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Animal cruelty, Gore, War, Animal death, and Death