Sunday, May 27, 2007
I was pretty quick this time around to post my Thailand pictures, so please enjoy.
Jan Visits Earth - Travel stories and pictures from Thailand
While in Thailand, I read "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel. It has apparently won lots of prizes, but I was bored to death for the first hundred pages. It gets better after that, but for a moment I thought the book was trying to kill me with both boredom and political correctness.
Rather than "Life of Pi", I loved the fantastic "A Man with No Talents: Memoirs of a Tokyo Day Laborer", which is a real gem of a book. Oyama Shiro's ability to describe people that he had met reminds me of Tolstoy's writings, which is also a comparison that was made in the introduction.
Finally, I also finished reading "A Hundred And One Days", which is a very informational and entertaining book by the Norwegian journalist Asne Seierstad. More famous for her book "The Bookseller of Kabul" (which I have not read yet), "A Hundred And One Days" is the story of the time Ms. Seierstad spent in Baghdad before and during the most recent invasion/liberation. The author strives to be impartial through most of the book, and she mainly succeeds. This book can be enjoyed by anyone, no matter which side of the fence you are on regarding the war.
Jan Visits Earth - Travel stories and pictures from Thailand
While in Thailand, I read "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel. It has apparently won lots of prizes, but I was bored to death for the first hundred pages. It gets better after that, but for a moment I thought the book was trying to kill me with both boredom and political correctness.
Rather than "Life of Pi", I loved the fantastic "A Man with No Talents: Memoirs of a Tokyo Day Laborer", which is a real gem of a book. Oyama Shiro's ability to describe people that he had met reminds me of Tolstoy's writings, which is also a comparison that was made in the introduction.
Finally, I also finished reading "A Hundred And One Days", which is a very informational and entertaining book by the Norwegian journalist Asne Seierstad. More famous for her book "The Bookseller of Kabul" (which I have not read yet), "A Hundred And One Days" is the story of the time Ms. Seierstad spent in Baghdad before and during the most recent invasion/liberation. The author strives to be impartial through most of the book, and she mainly succeeds. This book can be enjoyed by anyone, no matter which side of the fence you are on regarding the war.
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