I should preface this by saying that I’m not typically a big fan of contemporary short stories: I’m certainly not one to go in for many of the often formulaic and derivative New Yorker style pieces that seem to abound in just about every magazine and collection—often the very ones that get praised s...
Early in the book Gourevitch addresses the reader: "Perhaps, in examining this extremity with me, you hope for some understanding, some insight, some flicker of self-knowledge - a moral, or a lesson, or a clue about how to behave in this world: some such information. I don't discount the possibil...
What are writers like? What makes them different? On goodreads, for example, they will be the people that write their 'about me' sections in the third person. However, I had a feeling there must be more to that. When I was younger I thought writers were an entirely different caste of people. You can...
I'm really glad I read this book after reading "Killing Pablo" by Mark Bowden. This account of the genocide in Rwanda was everything I wanted it to be. It gave a concise, relevant history of Rwanda which explained how the various factions arose and the Hutu Power party was able to exploit the mass...
I thought it would be better. The book is badly written and edited, the author had not enough sources - i don't know if he interviewed the right people. And the most important- it is too self centered. I wanted an objective insight into true account, instead I received fixed opinions of author. It w...
As slight as the book is, I wasn't at all surprised to find out it started as a couple of New Yorker articles. What did surprise me is that Gourevitch doesn't appear to have attempted to pad it into something less meaningful. It's a pretty simple story about a NYC cop who got to thinking about an ...
I hate to say I had no idea this had gone on until I read the book when it first hit paperback. Wonderful book about an absolutely horrendous event. At the time I wondered why this hadn't been all over the news but it is a book about dark-skinned people in another continent so why should americans...
I hate to say I had no idea this had gone on until I read the book when it first hit paperback. Wonderful book about an absolutely horrendous event. At the time I wondered why this hadn't been all over the news but it is a book about dark-skinned people in another continent so why should americans...
Half-read (so far). These are excellent oral histories/narratives of people displaced, marginalized, oppressed, eccentric, and/or forgotten in the New China. In some ways reminiscent of the best of Studs Terkel's stuff, as many reviewers note, but the accounts seem more shaped, are certainly given...
My rating may creep higher, but for now my sense of this book is that it just misses classic status, opening with some confusion as Gourevitch (writing from Morris' hours upon hours of interview footage & official testimonies) tries to capture the confusion that comes before Abu Ghraib's eruption in...
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