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suwon fish wrote:
This book is the intertwined narratives of 3 UN staff. The book covers their work in Cambodia, Rwanda, Haiti, Somalia and Bosnia.
It's the story of tiny victories (and as many defeats) under almost impossible conditions. It's a bloody good read.
flipflop wrote:
Ten out of ten, fucking eye-opener, not nice to pretty much the whole middle-class establishment, the media, parliament, entertainment. Keeps it's biggest barbs for New Labour and their focus on identity politics while abandoning the people the party was established to represent - the much-maligned post-industrial working-classes.
And that Katherine Tate, Matt Lucas and David Walliams can fuck off too.
Cheers
Eiriksson wrote:suwon fish wrote:
This book is the intertwined narratives of 3 UN staff. The book covers their work in Cambodia, Rwanda, Haiti, Somalia and Bosnia.
It's the story of tiny victories (and as many defeats) under almost impossible conditions. It's a bloody good read.
That (early, so it's not a spoiler) description of the Cambodian man waiting for his wife to die or recover from last-gasp malaria, sitting on his heels for HOURS...how many of you who've been to SE Asia have seen that exact same sitting position? I can barely do it for a minute before the knees give out on me.
It's just loaded with those little observations, and that's on top of the narratives. I find myself thinking about a dozen or so scenes from it regularly.
rickshaw92 wrote:I shall peruse this literally stuff whilst drinking cheap cider on a bench outside the off licence near the local councle estate. Innit.
nowonmai wrote:
Good so far. The (first) US Civil War in under 400 pages.
coldharvest wrote:Shelby Foote?
kilroy wrote:coldharvest wrote:Shelby Foote?
the man is a stone cold pimp.
michelle in alaska wrote:
yes. yes,. i've blabbed about how much i like this book already...
...and btw, Horwitz has an interesting visit and conversation w Shelby Foote....amongst many other interesting visits including backstore confederate museums not open to the general public. and beyond....
i'm getting ready to embark on a mini civil 'wargasm' of various civil war battle sites and memorials. first stop: Antietam. I'm embarrassed to say that i had to ask how to pronounce that, initially. I'm from minnesota. too northern to have that battle talked about much...
i guess i'm so intrigued, because the emotion this war generated is still very much alive. but lord, will i be dying from the heat....
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