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  1. A review of some of Tim O’Brien’s short stories. Included are The Things They Carried with its theme of escape, conflict, guilt, acceptance and responsibility and Enemies with its theme of conflict, stress, fear and revenge.

  2. Tim O'Brien’s books. Average rating: 4.08 · 384,311 ratings · 24,568 reviews · 118 distinct works • Similar authors. More books by Tim O'Brien… Readers' 55 Most Anticipated Books of Fall. Autumn is a good time for books, for many reasons. Seasonally, it just feels right, what with the falling leaves and roaring fireplaces.... Read more...

  3. Tim O'Brien (born October 1, 1946) is an American novelist who served as a soldier in the Vietnam War. Much of his writing is about wartime Vietnam, [1] and his work later in life often explores the postwar lives of its veterans.

  4. Tim O'Brien has 118 books on Goodreads with 761601 ratings. Tim O'Brien’s most popular book is The Things They Carried.

  5. In 1990, “Speaking of Courage” was one of twenty-two stories included in The Things They Carried, a sequence of lyrical and interrelated stories that has been heralded as one of the finest volumes of fiction about the Vietnam War.

  6. In his classic book The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien writes, “Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can’t remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the ...

  7. Twenty years ago, writer Tim O'Brien released a book of stories about young men and war, his war, Vietnam. Among many other things, he listed the weight of each soldier's clothes, canteens...