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by Peter Hoover
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"I've only skipped through picking out highlights & tidbits so far. I cannot wait to slug my way North to South through this marvelous land & its funny, tough, resilient, perfectionist people. Another point: The Vietnamese are totally different from any of their neighbors-- Laos, Thais, Cambodians. Can't lump them all together as if they're one people. Uh-uh. Lord, I need two more lives for all these books!" — Nov 11, 2018 08:29AM
"I've only skipped through picking out highlights & tidbits so far. I cannot wait to slug my way North to South through this marvelous land & its funny, tough, resilient, perfectionist people. Another point: The Vietnamese are totally different from any of their neighbors-- Laos, Thais, Cambodians. Can't lump them all together as if they're one people. Uh-uh. Lord, I need two more lives for all these books!" — Nov 11, 2018 08:29AM
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"I've actually skipped around reading & rereading one of the top five best English novelists (though English was his third language!) Here is a fellow I'd love to have chatted with over coffee or a brewsky. What a fabulous wealth of knowledge, insight, & experience. Reading Conrad only makes me wish to know more about the man behind such superlative wordcrafting. I cannot recommend this book highly enough, folks." — Nov 11, 2018 08:24AM
"I've actually skipped around reading & rereading one of the top five best English novelists (though English was his third language!) Here is a fellow I'd love to have chatted with over coffee or a brewsky. What a fabulous wealth of knowledge, insight, & experience. Reading Conrad only makes me wish to know more about the man behind such superlative wordcrafting. I cannot recommend this book highly enough, folks." — Nov 11, 2018 08:24AM
He fondly loved, for instance, his position as a "persecuted" man and, so to speak, an "exile."
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