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Title	:	In the Lake of the Woods
Author	:	Tim O'Brien
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 303 pages
Published	:	September 1st 2006 by Mariner Books (first published 1994)
Categories	:	Fiction. Mystery. War. Historical. Historical Fiction

In the Lake of the Woods

Tim O'Brien

Paperback | Pages: 303 pages

Rating: 3.78 | 16438 Users | 1405 Reviews

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This riveting novel of love and mystery from the author of The Things They Carried examines the lasting impact of the twentieth century’s legacy of violence and warfare, both at home and abroad. When long-hidden secrets about the atrocities he committed in Vietnam come to light, a candidate for the U.S. Senate retreats with his wife to a lakeside cabin in northern Minnesota. Within days of their arrival, his wife mysteriously vanishes into the watery wilderness.

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Original Title:	In the Lake of the Woods
ISBN:	061870986X (ISBN13: 9780618709861)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	James Fenimore Cooper Prize (1995)

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I like Tim O'Brien's writing style and this was a page-turner for the most part. I stumbled quite a bit on the excessive quotes throughout the book and struggled with too much repetition, especially the ghastly repetition of memories from Vietnam. The themes of rape and murder are constantly in your face. Perhaps his point was how often they were in the soldier's face during the war? Maybe, but I believe that enough horror exists in just *imagining* what happened. I wouldn't discount his writing

This is a deceptively angry book. It may look normal and unassuming on the outside, even boring, but on the inside, it's a slow-building, roiling, burning rage, the kind that sucks you in and makes you burn along with it. And I could not stop reading or even look away. Finished it in 36 hours. All I did this weekend was read this book and let it burn.Beautifully written, bitterly frustrating, angry and wholly unexpected.Looks real black and white now--very clear--but back then everything came at

So far I'm intrigued and also horrified at the flash backs descriptions of the war in Vietnam that is revealed through the main protagonist! Hard to comprehend such depravity of the purely evil wartime actions depicted.*****Finished***That said; the writing was crisp, vivid, and chilling! The mental ravages of 'insanity killing' in the trenches echoes throughout the book. The jarring perversity of it all leaves the reader (this reader anyway) with disturbing questions?What was real and what was

While Denis Johnson's 'Tree of Smoke' may be the single best American novel about the Vietnam war, Tim O'Brien, who has made writing 'Nam stories into something of a cottage industry, has put out three terrific books that, taken as a whole, achieve something far more compelling and significant. The first, 'The Things They Carried,' is an extremely personal look into the dehumanization and commodification of the war, told with faux-bureaucratic detachment as a series of inventory lists. The

Its all here: Alcoholism; Abortion; Secrets; Magic; Politics; Death; Gambling; Vietnam; Suicide; Infidelity; Mystery; Murder; the Northwest Angle and More. And suddenly, as though caught in a box of mirrors, John looked up to see his own image reflected on the clinics walls and ceiling. Fun-house reflections: deformations and odd angles. He saw a little boy doing magic. He saw a college spy, madly in love. He saw a soldier and husband and seeker of public office. He saw himself from inside out

This was a very fucked up story, involving one seriously fucked up guy, a fucked up childhood, a fucked up marriage, and probably the most notoriously fucked up incident coming out of America's most fucked up war. I respect it as a piece of well-crafted literature, but I certainly can't say I enjoyed it.

Whoa. This book is deep. It deserves the awards it has won. I don't know what it is about O'Brien's novels but they have a way of speaking to me, getting me in the gut. This book had the same effect. It's truly a disturbing story on so many levels. It's a story about the human condition and the big bag of mess that goes with living and dying.