I recently purchased a Kindle Fire to do some reading with, as well as to entertain myself at airports or in the air. I bought the novel "Of Rice and Men" because I thought it was a nonfictional account of civil affairs units in Vietnam, but as it turns out, it's fiction based on the author's experiences. For that reason, I can't really get too absorbed into reading the book - I don't really care, because on some fundamental level, it's not real and I don't know what I can learn from that.
"We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People" was a much more interesting read for me, mostly because I would have written a very similar book myself, and I can relate to the subject matter. Basically it's the story of one State Department diplomat's time as a PRT team leader in Iraq, so it's interesting to see how things unfolded from a top-down perspective.
I wonder if my reading tastes are another one of the things that have changed this year.
"We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People" was a much more interesting read for me, mostly because I would have written a very similar book myself, and I can relate to the subject matter. Basically it's the story of one State Department diplomat's time as a PRT team leader in Iraq, so it's interesting to see how things unfolded from a top-down perspective.
I wonder if my reading tastes are another one of the things that have changed this year.
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