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<blockquote data-quote="Geek" data-source="post: 2567664" data-attributes="member: 246624">On of my favorite books is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679722025/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=wwwgregladenc-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217153&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0679722025" target="_blank">A Bend in the River</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=wwwgregladenc-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0679722025&amp;camp=217153&amp;creative=399349" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> by V. S. Naipaul.&nbsp; It is a story set in at the junction of a native and expat community in an African rain forest country with a not very despotic leader (the &quot;Big Man&quot;) at a time when a civil war was about to arrive on the scene.&nbsp; I like the book because of the writing, because of the story, because one of the character is supposedly based on someone I vaguely know (that&#039;s always fun) and because I was there .... living at the juncture of an expat and native community in a rain forested African country with a not-to-despotic leader named Mobutu Sese Seku.&nbsp; And I read a few of Naipaul&#039;s other books and liked them to.&nbsp; &nbsp; The, I go and find out he&#039;s a dick.&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/06/a_bend_in_the_river_get_bent.php" target="_blank">Read the rest of this post...</a> | <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/06/a_bend_in_the_river_get_bent.php#commentsArea" target="_blank">Read the comments on this post...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GregLadensBlog/~4/PO0eLGzug-c" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Geek, post: 2567664, member: 246624"] On of my favorite books is [URL="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679722025/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=wwwgregladenc-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217153&creative=399349&creativeASIN=0679722025"]A Bend in the River[/URL][IMG]http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=wwwgregladenc-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0679722025&camp=217153&creative=399349[/IMG] by V. S. Naipaul. It is a story set in at the junction of a native and expat community in an African rain forest country with a not very despotic leader (the "Big Man") at a time when a civil war was about to arrive on the scene. I like the book because of the writing, because of the story, because one of the character is supposedly based on someone I vaguely know (that's always fun) and because I was there .... living at the juncture of an expat and native community in a rain forested African country with a not-to-despotic leader named Mobutu Sese Seku. And I read a few of Naipaul's other books and liked them to. The, I go and find out he's a dick. [URL="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/06/a_bend_in_the_river_get_bent.php"]Read the rest of this post...[/URL] | [URL="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/06/a_bend_in_the_river_get_bent.php#commentsArea"]Read the comments on this post...[/URL][IMG]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GregLadensBlog/~4/PO0eLGzug-c[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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