A wall-banger of the good kind
Feb. 24th, 2008 06:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I've been reading Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Life in Iraq's Green Zone for a little while now, and while it's a very good book that raises a lot of good points about what went wrong over there I have one advisory for future readers:
Don't read it in any place close to something you can bang your head against. Because while reading this book you'll want to bang your head against the wall because of the sheer stupidity of the people who were put in charge post-invasion. Ugh!
I was reading book that during lunch, and it was actually pretty funny when I saw one of the waitresses tilting her head to try and get a look at what I was reading. We gabbed about that for a bit, and how the author certainly knows his stuff and could get into a lot of places the other reporters couldn't since he's Indian, and apparently there are a lot of Indians in Iraq (something I didn't know until reading this book).
It's certainly an interesting book, and almost feels like Catch-22 at times, except for the fact that this story is (unfortunately) true and still happening.
I've been reading Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Life in Iraq's Green Zone for a little while now, and while it's a very good book that raises a lot of good points about what went wrong over there I have one advisory for future readers:
Don't read it in any place close to something you can bang your head against. Because while reading this book you'll want to bang your head against the wall because of the sheer stupidity of the people who were put in charge post-invasion. Ugh!
I was reading book that during lunch, and it was actually pretty funny when I saw one of the waitresses tilting her head to try and get a look at what I was reading. We gabbed about that for a bit, and how the author certainly knows his stuff and could get into a lot of places the other reporters couldn't since he's Indian, and apparently there are a lot of Indians in Iraq (something I didn't know until reading this book).
It's certainly an interesting book, and almost feels like Catch-22 at times, except for the fact that this story is (unfortunately) true and still happening.
