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Anderson Cooper's Dispatches from the edge, a memoir of war, disaters and survival.
A great non-fiction real to life reporter's view of four major disaster's, Tsunami, Iraq, Niger and Katrina. I have a sudden fascination for Anderson Cooper's style of writing...this para at almost the end of the book goes this way.....
"It's impossible to maintain, impossible to sustain. You can't stay like this forever. Blissed out. Bugged out. High, but not stoned. I'm in this moment. This second. Nowhere else. The work is done."
His description of the Tsunami is heart rendering, there are no words to describe the hunger of somalian people. A reporter's job is a tough job. You see people dying in front of you and you feel sad, if not for their pain and suffering you wouldn't be near them, the stories a reporter brings back home is intended to stop such crimes elsewhere....is there an End? I don't see one....
From the time, Anderson Cooper forged a fake ID to interview rebels in Burma to his growth as a prominent reporter of CNN is a story in itself. His search for "bliss" takes him across the continents Asia(Burma, Iraq, Srilanka), Africa (Bosnia, Serbia, Somalia), and a disaster so close to home (Louisiana), pain, suffering, mismanagement, greed, indifference and many more. A glimpse of them. Some sentences are haunting, like this one; "Every war is different, every war the same".
Other's funny yet descriptive;
Somewhere in Bosnia....
Driver: "This road is the most dangerous road in the world"
Anderson Cooper: "I know. Thanks for reminding me."
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That leaves The inheritance of loss on the book shelf as the only remaining book.....someone asked me to write a review on that in theor blog...is that what's stopping me?? :D...
No.....a booker prize winner,I'm not gonna finish it off that easily....word by word, page by page..No hurry...she took 7 years to write it....how can I read it in less than 7 months :D
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Anderson Cooper on Wikipedia
Anderson Cooper's blog on CNN (Must read)
1 comments:
Good you reminded me...Where is the guest review anyway??? >:)
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