*curses himself for not having something more highbrow*
I just finished two Paul Theroux travel books; Dark Star Safari and The Pillars of Hercules. He’s grumpy and generalising much of the time, but the travels themselves sound fantastic.
I found King Leopold’s Ghosts cheap in Chapters last week. Very interesting, but the author’s writing style is annoying. He veers between past and present tense and draws too many contemporary analogies. Aside from that, I found in the library a very good (relatively old) book on the immediate build up to the First World War, it’s called August 1914 – not the Solzhenitsyn book.
Though, on that note, how is the Solzhenitsyn book does anybody know?
I also have And the Band Played On ordered.
Is mise srl.,