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| What Others Are Saying About "Shared Weight" | ||
| Earnest, Personal, Thoughtful A great topic: the experience of war through a literary lens. The journey back to Vietnam of Marine veteran and writer Wayne Karlin is an ideal frame for speaking with writers on both sides of the Pacific. The six writers all have very different styles and points of view so there is a lot to think about. Interviews are interspersed with readings from their work.  ... this is an intelligent hour on an important subject. It would provide a different perspective for Veterans Day programming. I particularly liked hearing from Bao Ninh, whose haunting novel "The Sorrow of War" should be required reading in schools everywhere. David Swatling, Radio Netherlands Amsterdam October 5, 2006 |
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| Emotional, Personal, Thoughtful This is an incredibly well-told story full of imagery and emotion. Gregory Plagens October 8, 2006 |
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| Contemplative, Intimate, Personal Firstly, this is a fantastic story. Manna from heaven for any radio producer. It could so easily have been called 'Homer's Odyssey' - a Vietnam veteran called Homer kills a Vietnamese soldier and thirty-six years later sends back to the soldier's family the letters and documents taken from his body. There is some truely wonderful and moving material in this programme. Weaving between accounts from the Vietnamese family and from Homer and his acquaintances. Both sides to the story are told. For once a face to the enemy. Yes, flesh and blood like anyone else. Chris Chambers Amsterdam September 23, 2006 |
