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46. Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien (****)
This book is not for everyone. If you have trouble suspending disbelief or issues with magical realism, walk away now or read O'Brien's The Things They Carried. However, if you can just sit back and enjoy the ride as a master storyteller blurs ...
... in Three Voices - Gaby Brimmer - Early Reviewer
52. Push Comes to Shove - Wesley Brown - Concord Free Press
53. Going After Cacciato - Tim O'Brien
54. The Ghost in Love - Jonathan Carroll - Reading Globally, ghost theme
55. To Sibera - Per Petterson - Early Reviewer
56. Bri ...
... Only pick *one* book, though (...even if you have more than one and can't decide!).
I think mine would have to be Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien. Perhaps that was colored by the fact that I saw the author in person at the National Book Festival this year, but I really get ...
#142: Thanks for the additional info, Amanda. I will try and get to Going after Cacciato early next year.
I read The Things They Carried earlier this year and agree with you - an absolutely terrific book. I have Going After Cacciato in the BlackHole and am hoping to get to it next year.
45. Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien (****)
46. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (*****)
Haven't time to review them right now, but both are re-reads and amazing (as Tim O'Brien always is).
My top 5:
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (an all-time fave)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Going after Cacciato and as a side The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien was also a good read, too.
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov (The Foundation ...
... (Peru); Fires on the plain (Philippines); Lord of the Flies (Unknown island); The Things they Carried (Vietnam); Going after Cacciato (Vietnam);
TBR possibilities: need to find some!
March - Caribbean
April - Ottoman Empire
May - Mexico
Already read; Un dulce olor a ...
Message #124.
Thanks for your excellent review of Going After Cacciato . I gave it a hearty thumbs up! Like you, I really loved The things They Carried. I also liked In the Lake of the Woods. Have you read this one?
I'm adding Going After Cacciato to my list.
#124: I loved The Things They Carried when I read it earlier this year, so Going After Cacciato is definitely going on Planet TBR! Thanks for the review and recommendation, Madeline.
"Inherited it, sir. From my father."
Going After Cacciato - Tim O'Brien
"...where'd you get such a screwy name?"
Doc nodded...Slyly, still nodding, he winked at Paul Berlin.
Going After Cacciato - Tim O'Brien
"What's the plan?"
He drove hard across the moonscaped plains.
Going After Cacciato - Tim O'Brien
"Spying, you say?"
"Evil. It has to do with wickedness."
Going After Cacciato - Tim O'Brien
"You doubting me?"
Then they began the search.
Going After Cacciato - Tim O'Brien
"What exactly do we look for?"
"...caught in an avalanche."
Going After Cacciato - Tim O'Brien
"What'd he have with him?"
"Snakes and maggots and bats, rats and moles, lizards in my bed."
Going After Cacciato - Tim O'Brien
"Am I crazy?"
"The real trick," Doc Peret was saying softly to Eddie, "is deception."
Going After Cacciato - Tim O'Brien
"Then you have found an answer?"
(trying again)
"But, sir, she speaks French. Terrific French."
Going After Cacciato - Tim O'Brien
"Can you see us in Paris?"
"A whole future destroyed..."
Going After Cacciato - Tim O'Brien
"Dumb-dumb. Right, sir?"
Oscar's lips made a nasty smile.
Going After Cacciato - Tim O'Brien
"Obvious, isn't it?"
"There is a way," she said.
Going After Cacciato - Tim O'Brien
"You don't know?"
"I smell something," Buff said.
Going After Cacciato - Tim O'Brien
"You smell it?"
"I don't like it", Harold Murphy whispered.
Going After Cacciato - Tim O'Brien
"You think he knows it?"
Hoi An glowed. Trees powdered. There was a crackling, scalding sound.
Going After Cacciato - Tim O'Brien
"Can't you do something?"
"Not him..."
Going After Cacciato - Tim O'Brien
"But, look...where exactly are you headed?"
"Maybe. Just tell the facts"
Going After Cacciato - Tim O'Brien
"Think we lost him?"
... the guard, when to tell jokes and when not to, the order of the march, when to send out ambushes and when to fake them."
Going After Cacciato - Tim O'Brien
"What became of Cacciato?"
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Books On My TBR List for More Than One Year - *Sigh*
1. Going After Cacciato - Tim O'Brien
***among my favorite authors
2. The Ghost in Love - Jonathan Carroll
***Both books start out with a man who seems as ...
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2. The Master of Go - Yasunari Kawabata (5) - since 2006
3. Touch and Go - Eugene Stein (4) - since 2007
4. Going After Cacciato - Tim O'Brien (5) - since 2006
5. The Story of a Marriage - Andrew Sean Greer (3.5) - since 9/11/2008 (today is 11/25/09)
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... Three Voices - Gaby Brimmer - Early Reviewer
52. Push Comes to Shove - Wesley Brown - Concord Free Press
53. Going After Cacciato - Tim O'Brien
54. The Ghost in Love - Jonathan Carroll - Reading Globally, ghost theme
55. To Sibera - Per Petterson - Early Review ...
Tim O'Brien is a fabulous Yank author who wrote THE THINGS THEY CARRIED, GOING AFTER CACCIATO , TOMCAT IN LOVE, etc. Fought in Viet Nam and wrote brilliantly on that subject but has since morphed into a fine literary writer PERIOD.
... In the night garden
the VanderMeers
Jane Yolen Briar Rose and the one-armed queen
.....
Tim O'Brien - Going after Cacciato - at least the "going after" sequence.
ed. to get Geoff Ryman in and to sneak Tim O'Brien past Cliff.
lake it the woods - totally agree - just went through 3 of Tim O'Brien's VM novels/memories and from the older Going After Cacciato to the things they carried to the lake in the woods, they were all marvelous books. Perhaps my favorite was "Going After Cacciato" as the surreal becomes all ...
having just finished going after cacciato , to my tastes it's the best of a very good lot.. Vietnam turns into the war found inside the tunnels. chapters more or less alternate - O'Brien will write movingly of humping grunt materiel over hill and dale; the banality of war - the all too often ...
having just finished going after cacciato , to my tastes it's the best of a very good lot.. Vietnam turns into the war found inside the tunnels. chapters more or less alternate - O'Brien will write movingly of humping grunt materiel over hill and dale; the banality of war - the often actions of ...
... Alas, they live at my parent's house so I don't have direct access to them. But from what I remember
The Odyssey
Going After Cacciato
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Cold Mountain
Huckleberry Finn
I think that was the extent of the major reading. There were a couple of ...
i'm enjoying the everyday surreal context of Going After Cacciato a good deal, but while i might check out July, July i won't be making an effort to get it and will probably pass totally on tomcat, after both glancing through reviews and noting virtually total agreement here. In Cacciato, the ...
... Things They Carried - there were so many small things that would get stuck rolling around in my head for days. I read Going After Cacciato in a class about odysseys which was very interesting, but I have been wanting to go back to it on its own.
... lake in the woods which is a creepier take on the lingering impact of Vietnam than O'Brien's other books. And now back to going after cacciato which i read a long time ago. In the lake in the woods really is one of the scarier books i've ever read as the lives of the protagonists remain ...
... things they carried a couple of decades after his experiences although he'd earlier written the v. good, but not AS good, going after cacciato much early.
So far the only really "great" 9/11 book i've come across is the graphic novel shooting war by Anthony Lappe - and it's much more ...
... McEwan
Waiting to Exhale – Terry McMillan
I lock my door upon myself – Joyce Carol Oates
Going after Cacciato – Tim O’Brien
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox – Maggie O’Farrell
At Swim Two Boys – Jamie 0’Neill
The C ...
Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien; a great book
The Things They Carried is one of my 5 star books. I've been intending to reread it again. I did not particularly like Going After Cacciato another Vietnam book by O'Brien. More recently, O'Brien wrote In the Lake of the Woods, a novel about the lingering trauma experienced by a present ...
... when i read it..god, it seems like decades ago. I think it's really his memoirs of his war reporting years. That, and going after cacciato - tim o'Brien were the two best VNam books that i've read; not read meditations in green however.
Also by Tim O'Brien is Going After Cacciato which I read several years ago and really loved. Caveat: You have to enjoy ambiguous stories with something like "magical realism' and no tidy ending, though.
#175 dancingstarfish
What a great haul! I read Going After Cacciato years ago with a great book group and we all loved it. Tim O'Brien writes interesting fiction where he makes you wonder what is real and what is not--it's fascinating and thought provoking. And it works for what he is ...
Went to a used book store, man how I love them.
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
Ex-Libris by Ross King
Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai
NightWatch by Sergei Lukyanenko
... store and picked up a few books, I don't know which one to make my reading now book. Arg!
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
Ex-Libris by Ross King
Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai
NightWatch by Serg ...
#176 jplawne
Going After Cacciato is the best book about the Viet Nam war I've read--I hightly recommend it. I haven't read The Things They Carried yet, though, and I under stand that one is also excellent.
... I have indeed read all her books.
2) Tim O'Brien: after The Things They Carried
Not too long afterwards I read Going After Cacciato and If I Die in a Combat Zone and I hope to read some of this other books.
3) Yasushi Inoue: after Shirobamba
Love this man's writing style and ...
... I have indeed read all her books.
2) Tim O'Brien: after The Things They Carried
Not too long afterwards I read Going After Cacciato and If I Die in a Combat Zone and I hope to read some of this other books.
3) Yasushi Inoue: after Shirobamba
Love this man's writing style and ...
... Away From Anywhere Else by Ursula K. LeGuin
Voyage to Venus by C.S. Lewis
Harry and the Lady Next Door by Gene Zion
Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien
On Top of the World by Luree Miller
... Meyer
*Dragon's Keep by Janet Lee Carey
*The Prestige by Christopher Priest
and I'm going to reread Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien for last minute school purposes
I'm pretty sure that's my list for the week, but who knows? Maybe I life up another 1 or...6 ...
... ideas.
There are several good books that came out of Vietnam. Among my favorites is the sarcasm and folly depicted in Going After Cacciato
by Tim O'Brien.
I started out in Vietnam during the late sixties/early seventies in Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien. We've traveled through Vietnam to Laos, Malaysia, Iran, and expect to end in Paris. Compelling book and I expect the ending to hold some special excitement.
The Other 26 -- to make a grand total of 88 in 2008.
1. Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld READ
2. Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien READ
3. The $64 Tomato by William Alexander READ 8/?
4. Balzac and the Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie READ 11/08
5. The Secret Riv ...
I'll be Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien. The new year has got me reading at a good clip! This is #4.
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David H. Hackworth's About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior
Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried and Going After Cacciato
To name a few...
... Sea, by John Banville, which I now hear is boring (oh well)
Captain Corelli's Mandolin, by Louis de Bernieres
Going After Cacciato , by Tim O'Brien
The Bloody Chamber, by Angela Carter
and
a signed edition of The Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
... ghts
22. 6/2/2007 Caputo, Philip Acts of Faith
23. 6/9/2007 Caputo, Philip Horn of Africa
24. 6/16/2007 O'Brien, Tim Going After Cacciato
25. 6/21/2007 O'Brien, Tim The Things They Carried
26. 7/6/2007 Caputo, Philip A Rumor of War
27. 7/14/2007 Del Vecchio, John For The Sake of Al ...
... ghts
22. 6/2/2007 Caputo, Philip Acts of Faith
23. 6/9/2007 Caputo, Philip Horn of Africa
24. 6/16/2007 O'Brien, Tim Going After Cacciato
25. 6/21/2007 O'Brien, Tim The Things They Carried
26. 7/6/2007 Caputo, Philip A Rumor of War
27. 7/14/2007 Del Vecchio, John For The Sake of Al ...
... ghts
22. 6/2/2007 Caputo, Philip Acts of Faith
23. 6/9/2007 Caputo, Philip Horn of Africa
24. 6/16/2007 O'Brien, Tim Going After Cacciato
25. 6/21/2007 O'Brien, Tim The Things They Carried
26. 7/6/2007 Caputo, Philip A Rumor of War
27. 7/14/2007 Del Vecchio, John For The Sake of Al ...
... "war" read is A very long engagement by Sebastien Japrisot ... WWI/French again.
Some good Vietnam books are Going after Cacciato by Tim O'Brien, Meditations in Green by Stephen Wright and Paco's story by Larry Heinemann ... all from the U.S. viewpoint, natch.
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