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Matt Taibbi is one of my favorite journalists. He always has the goods at Rolling Stone.
I just ordered The Last Campaign: RFK and 82 Days That Inspired America. I'm looking forward to this one. During the anniversary week of his assassination they had the author (Thurston Clarke) and he discussed RFK and it was saddening to see what was taken away at that time.
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I'm a little embarrassed, but I've started this book. It's actually really interesting reading about what he did for the Rambo and Rocky movies. He's talking about how he overtrained for these movies. He got down to 2.8% body fat for Rocky 3!
I just bought Battle Royale by Koushun Takami. The English translation of course. I never saw the Japanese movie but have been told its one of the most violent ever made.
Its basically about a bunch of 9th graders thrown on an island with food, water and a weapon and told to fight to the death.
I haven't started it yet but its supposed to be a very quick read.
Finished Zigzag (really good, but dragged on too long, I think). Now I'm digging into Chuck Palahniuk's "Rant."
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Buster “Rant” Casey just may be the most efficient serial killer of our time. A high school rebel, Rant Casey escapes from his small town home for the big city where he becomes the leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing. Rant Casey will die a spectacular highway death, after which his friends gather the testimony needed to build an oral history of his short, violent life. With hilarity, horror, and blazing insight, Rant is a mind-bending vision of the future, as only Chuck Palahniuk could ever imagine.
__________________ America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.
In the mid-eighties, the idea of defending Americans against terrorism was still new. But a trio of suicide bombings in Beirut–including one that killed 241 marines and forced our exit from Lebanon–had changed the mindset and mission of the Diplomatic Security Service (DSS), the arm of the State Department that protects U.S. embassy officials across the globe. Burton, a member of DSS’s tiny but elite Counterterrorism Division, was plunged into a murky world of violent religious extremism spanning the streets of Middle Eastern cities and the informant-filled alleys of American slums. From battling Libyan terrorists and their Palestinian surrogates to having facing down hijackers, hostages, and Hezbollah double agents, Burton found himself on the front lines of America’s first campaign against Terror.
I'll probably give it 4 stars. It's interesting in terms of getting a sense of the process of CT work from an insider (who was basically a good bureaucrat, not a field agent) and fairly well-written. I'm enjoying it, but it's not a compelling read -- maybe because I know an awful lot about many of the topics and characters and was hoping for really new info.
__________________ Hoping for Audacity
Well, in truth I'm actually not a total hawk, but I'm not a dove either -- I'm more like an angry pigeon flying over the political arena after a really big meal. -Abba Gav
Killer Angels was supposed to be a really good book.
__________________ Hoping for Audacity
Well, in truth I'm actually not a total hawk, but I'm not a dove either -- I'm more like an angry pigeon flying over the political arena after a really big meal. -Abba Gav
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