2 Sentence Review: The Things They Carried
Nothing helps being delayed on the runway for 120 minutes like reading Tim O’Brien’s horrifically indepth and artfully crafted description of one of his squadmates in Vietnam drowning in a lake of human feces. Like Requiem for a Dream, its one of those painfully awesome stories that you like and respect, but will probably only want to expose yourself to one time in your life.
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