pickI highly recommend this book. It is more a bio of one mans career as a Navy SEAL. Through all its stages. A career that included the killing of Osama Bin Laden. Absent is the self-righteous patriotism that can be prevalent today. He approaches his story as a professional. Just telling his story without trying to drive home a political opinion. An inspiring story and a look into the real world of the Navy SEALs.
pickSoooo good. I‘m going to watch the movie. One of my students told me this was his favorite book. I had to check it out. I love books about true events.
𝑬𝒏𝒆𝒎𝒚 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒃𝒂𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕 was a publishing collective that released a series of booklets and a small number of books beginning around 2015. 𝑬𝒏𝒆𝒎𝒚 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒃𝒂𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕, as a project, appeared to be entirely offline. They only listed a physical address to communicate with them, and there were only a few outlets online that stocked their titles.
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pickA non-fiction account of the everyday lives of three people living in Afghanistan after 9/11. This book changed what I thought I knew. It was a hard read, but a really good one. #FoodAndLit
so-soGood memoir recalling the counterinsurgency the United States learned the hard way in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Interesting & informative. Bowden always good.
pickGopal follows 3 Afghans,a Taliban commander, a US backed warlord ,& an educated village housewife to demonstrate how difficult it is/was to get a positive result in Afghanistan.Detailed & well written,reality is most just want to raise their family in peace.We have warlords accusing enemies of being terrorists so the US will lock them up,the provisional police extorting money from anyone who has a shop stall.Shows how the Taliban would rise again
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This story had a lot of potential, because the actual events make for a very compelling narrative. The way it's written, however, leaves a lot to be desired. The flow of the story is choppy and kind of jumps from point to point. Certain sections just get started, and then the author switches to a completely different topic and never comes back to conclude the previous section.
panThis is the first book in a series which centres around a tech guy in MI6, Marc Dane.
I didnt bond with the main character Marc and thats probably because the book is plot focused whereas I prefer getting to know my characters which I didnt get in these pages. Its all bang bang die bang bang die and repeat.
Not for me sadly.
pickSuperb! Narrative and investigative non-fiction of the very highest order. No Good Men Among the Living by Anand Gopal is wholly absorbing. Mr. Gopal's storytelling is imbued with a sense of understanding and moral seriousness of the broad landscape of Afghanistan's war through the lives of ordinary people all trying to survive. His close observations and delicate renderings of the war on terror is sad but true that, ultimately, the war 👇
