...my "no cats on LJ" rule to recommend it to you now if you don't know it. I miss poetry so much. And I read TimO'Brien's The Things They Carried , finally. Beautiful and horrific, and messes with your head with its unresolved arguments about storytelling and truth and war and writing. Is what he wrote true? What is "...
... of bullet belts, as well as the Colt revolver he got earlier on the island. And the scars from Youji. My Lai is a touchy subject. Don't mention it. Crazy America is scary. Have fun, guys :D The Things They Carried by TimO'Brien = ♥
...Ernest Hemingway
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Things They Carried – TimO’Brien
The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
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...! You people hear me bitch about more personal things than most of my actual friends ever know ... you. Plus, everyone likes to fill these things out and talk about themselves! Ok.. 1.)... were stranded on a desert island, what three things would you most want with you? 1.) ... I can (and have) read over and over again is The Things They Carried by TimO'Brien, A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving,...
... Book Neil Gaiman A good Man is hard to find - Flannery O’Connor The Informers - Brett Easton Ellis Idlewild -Nick Sagen The... of hell - Rupert Thompson City Clifford Simak Chasm City - Alastair Reynolds The Things They CarriedTimO’BrienHeart Shaped Box - Joe Hill The Hill -JacquelineJill Chase the Morning - Michael Scott ...
... ignored and the show merely carried on status quo. Well, something ... movie adaptation of Robert C. O'Brien's Mrs. Frisby and ... realize that Crusher understood many things beyond his age and had ... times. Schumacher would later replace Tim Burton as the director of ... George Clooney as Batman, Chris O'Donnell as Robin, Arnold Schwarzenegger...an Indo-European root *derew(o)- 'tree' or 'wood.' Thus dryads...
...heroes of our youth, bravely and forthrightly, without thought of personal loss or discredit. Certainly that was my conviction back in the summer of 1968. TimO'Brien: a secret hero. The Lone Ranger. If the stakes ever became high enough--if the evil were evil enough, if the good were good enough--I...
... amazing. Here are a few lines I liked. "It was very sad, he thought. The things men carriedinside. The things men did or felt they had to do." "And it occurred to him that there were things about her he would never know." "She didn't understand how...do those things. What things? he asked, and Martha said, The things men do." I think that's all I'll really post ...
... 66-- The Things They Carried by TimO'BrienAttendees: Amy ...is the first story, "The Things They Carried," written in third person? ...'t think we think of things this way 5. Often, in ... really effected her opinion on things. AS: Set up the exaggerations ... perception and how e digestthings. 7. In "Sweetheart of the ... 9. Aside from "The Things They Carried," "Speaking of Courage" is ...
...a story of death or killing or blood or horror. These things happened, and they happened in a fight that was called a... Along with my given prompt, I was influenced by TimO'Brien's wonderfulbook The Things They Carried so with that in mind I'd like to dedicate my story to all the...green grass in front of Hogwarts Luna gasped in surprise. Few thingssurprised her—the death of one's mother has that ...