The GF book thread

[SasaS]

2 hours ago, Sut said:

It's not a bad picture. Bryan Singer made it in between Usual Suspects and X-Men.

And in between some other... goings on.

[polymerpunkah]

"Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa" Jason Stearns

 

"Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe" Gerrard Prunier

 

Two books on the wars that took place in the DRC following the genocide in Rwanda.

 

The first is the one to read first, the second is a much-more complex attempt to present all the different factions involved, and all the events that took place between 1994 and 2004. 

 

5 million excess deaths in a series of conflicts driven in large part by Kagame's Rwanda and Museveni's Uganda, with most of the other surrounding nations involved in one way or another.

 

The violence continues up to the present day, though at a lower level, with Kagame and Rwanda still heavily involved.

[Sut]

I'm nearing the end of my reread of The IPCRESS File at the minute, juggling it with Kathryn Bigelow Interviews, which is a load of interviews with, er... Kathryn Bigelow. Also got The Warrior's Camera on the go - a book about the films of Kurosawa Akira.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

14 hours ago, polymerpunkah said:

"Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa" Jason Stearns

 

"Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe" Gerrard Prunier

 

Two books on the wars that took place in the DRC following the genocide in Rwanda.

 

The first is the one to read first, the second is a much-more complex attempt to present all the different factions involved, and all the events that took place between 1994 and 2004. 

 

5 million excess deaths in a series of conflicts driven in large part by Kagame's Rwanda and Museveni's Uganda, with most of the other surrounding nations involved in one way or another.

 

The violence continues up to the present day, though at a lower level, with Kagame and Rwanda still heavily involved.

Cheery stuff!