The Things They Carried (Unabridged) The Things They Carried (Unabridged)

The Things They Carried (Unabridged‪)‬

    • 4.2 • 262 Ratings
    • $17.99

    • $17.99

Publisher Description

This modern classic and New York Times best seller was a finalist for both the 1990 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award and has become a staple of American classrooms. Hailed by The New York Times as "a marvel of storytelling", The Things They Carried’s portrayal of the boots-on-the-ground experience of soldiers in the Vietnam War is a landmark in war writing. Now, three-time Emmy Award winner Bryan Cranston, star of the hit TV series Breaking Bad, delivers an electrifying performance that walks the book’s hallucinatory line between reality and fiction and highlights the emotional power of the spoken word.

The soldiers in this collection of stories carried M-16 rifles, M-60 machine guns, and M-79 grenade launchers. They carried plastic explosives, hand grenades, flak jackets, and landmines. But they also carried letters from home, illustrated Bibles, and pictures of their loved ones. Some of them carried extra food or comic books or drugs. Every man carried what he needed to survive, and those who did carried their shattering stories away from the jungle and back to a nation that would never understand.

This audiobook also includes an exclusive recording “The Vietnam in Me,” a recount of the author’s trip back to Vietnam in 1994, revisiting his experience there as a soldier 25 years before, read by Tim O’Brien himself.

The Things They Carried was produced by Audible Studios in partnership with Playtone, the celebrated film and television production company founded by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, and producer of the award-winning series Band of Brothers, John Adams, and The Pacific, as well as the HBO movie Game Change.

GENRE
Fiction
NARRATOR
BC
Bryan Cranston
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
07:47
hr min
RELEASED
2013
October 15
PUBLISHER
Audible Studios
PRESENTED BY
Audible.com
SIZE
366.1
MB

Customer Reviews

Mysteryhatcat ,

Fantastic

One of the best war novels I've ever read.

Hanselrocks12 ,

Amazing

I love it

FlyinFaubs ,

Writing at its finest

First, I’m extremely annoyed that a couple one star reviews are the first thing you see here, despite so many four/five star ratings. This may be harsh to hear, but if you don’t like this book, you simply have to live with the fact that you, my dear, are unintelligent and are offended by the rest of us. Any who, the rest of y’all should enjoy this book; it’s an absolute treasure!

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