Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Best books

Tim O'Brien is not the same person as Timothy O'Brien author of Trumpnation, though both are excellent writers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Things_They_Carried

Of all the books I have read The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien is probably the most unforgetable.

I bought his If I die in the Combat Zone, Box me up and ship me Home, in Gottenberg, Sweden, in 2002.

The Things They Carried, is a list of things American soldiers carried in their pockets in Vietnam, and is a classic.

KMKaung
1-24-2017

Place names I came across in reading DGE Hall--Mainly a history of the rivalry between the French, the British and the Dutch in S and SE Asia from the 16th century onwards.

I'm only reading the reigns of Naresuan,his brother Ekathasarot and his great grandson Narai-- Narai was very progressive and sent the ...