Aniss
What you would expect from Krakauer as far as investigative reporting goes. This feels much more like a magazine piece as apposed to his previously published books. The pace teeters off about halfway though and from there on out it reads like a legal document detailing a crime. Still the subject material is interesting enough.
I found the characters in this book to be some of the most realistic contemporary characters I had ever read. Perhaps, this is all drawn heavily from the author's personal life a previous reviewer noted a lot of Swann's were thanked in the acknowledgments, but the magic was in the details for me on this one.
awesome. just a really good book. it's a really provocative depiction of growing up in Africa in a family of ex-patriats moving around Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, Zambia. By the end of the book you've been exposed to so many anicdotes and beautiful depoictions of the hot and throat scalding African experience that it really feels gratifying to have read the book.
The poetic prose are insightful and meaningful without being condescending. It is the essence of a self help book because it is an entertaining reminder of some ideals I enjoy striving for. With a combination of eastern and western philosophy Paul Williams creates a text that can be read by randomly flipping to a page or as a narrative that can remind the reader of the potential of their existence.
but it's still just a book.
wicked good. read it again so I could remember how wicked good it is. fantasy meets eastern philisophy meets wicked smart writing!
A memoir/autobiography/profile of growing up in Georgia up until the age of 6. A beautifully written and very moving book.
