The TP Book Club is now in session...

Has anyone read "Fools Rush In" by Bill Carter really,really amazing

Really? I'll look for it. Thanks.

Lee

Quoting cikusang

And abang Wocca and kak CC too! Thanks for donating your books!

You are welcome

Quoting joey22

"dark star safari" by paul theroux is amazing too! and for anyone going to south america try "gringo trail" by mark mann.

can anyone recommend anything travel literature-wise for south east asia... particularly lao and cambodia please. i've read the beach three times now and i'm desperate for something new.

thanks guys, i'm enjoying this book club thing

joey

Joey, forget to mention a book i read a couple of years ago that is an interesting story about Vietnam. It's called Derailed in Uncle Ho's Garden of Victory by Tim Page. Tim Page was a famous combat photographer during the Vietnam War, and in this book he returns to a re-unified Vietnam and takes a train journey through the country and shares his thoughts about how Vietnam has changed. I've just brought Catfish and Mandala, can't remember who it's by, but it looks an interesting read.

Dave has just reminded me of another excellent Vietnam -related book

"The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien. It's basically a soldier's account of his time in Vietnam. A very good book....the disjointed narrative really conveys the state of mind of the veteran returned home after the war.

A good read.

Here are the three I read last week...
[b]A Lifelong Passion by Andrei Maylunas and Sergei Mironenko
(Great story about Nicholas and Alexandra, the last Czar and Czarina)
Women of the Third Reich by Anna Maria Sigmund
(self explanitory title...but interesting little known facts)
A First-Class Temperament by Goeffrey C. Ward
(One of my favorite books on the life of FDR!)

Oh! Interested in Women of the Third Reich! Might get that one.

just started reading ''i know why the caged bird sings'' by Maya Angelou this morning, so far its really good but i'm stuck in work so won't get a chance to read it till later , aghhh

oh and had just finished crime and punishment, i found it to be slow in parts but over all a good book..

Jonnathan Strange & Mr.Norrel

Is a great book, read it.

My Dad got me that for Christmas Brendan! Havent read it yet.