Smashbomb

Search

Search results

All (655)

Content

Historical Falconry: An Illustrated Guide

Andrew Stewart and Helen Rowlands

(0 Ratings) Rate It

Book

Falconry was a major part of historical culture and lifestyle across the world and throughout...

Paleo Planet: Primal Foods from the Global Kitchen, with More Than 125 Recipes

Becky Winkler

(0 Ratings) Rate It

Book

Becky Winkler's Paleo Planet is the first cookbook to take the paleo diet for a global spin, with...

The Tower: Tales from a Lost Country

Uwe Tellkamp

(0 Ratings) Rate It

Book

In derelict Dresden a cultivated, middle-class family does all it can to cope amid the Communist...

Syria: Recipes from Home

Itab Azzam and Dina Mousawi

(0 Ratings) Rate It

Book

'Syrian cuisine deserves a high place in our culinary knowledge and Itab and Dina, with their...

Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated Exit West in Books

Jul 24, 2017

Exit West

Mohsin Hamid | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry

8.1

(7 Ratings)

Book Rating

A dystopian current affairs magical realistic fiction

A deeply tragic account of how two people can be caught in circumstances of war, how easy it is to lose everything and the potential hope that humanity offers. Saeed and Nadia attempt to face an apocalyptic situation in the face of adversity despite having a tenuous connection to one another. It is quite a depressing read especially given the current situation in the Middle East - but Hamid does a great job in humanising the characters. They are just two simple people attempting to make a relationship work under intense circumstances. A beautiful account, I just wished the story was slightly more developed as it tended to run from one scene to another.

Kudos

Chris Hooker (419 KP) rated Dynamite Fishermen (Beirut Trilogy, #1) in Books

Jan 12, 2018

Since I received my first book by [Preston Fleming] through Library Thing I have been impressed. [Dynamite Fishermen] did not disappoint me. I really enjoy the way he tells a story and believe Conrad Prosser could compete with Jack Ryan. Except maybe not a pure as Ryan which makes him more credible as a government employee.

The setting of Beirut in the 1980's really was in intriguing setting especially growing up in the 1980's and remembering the weekly new reports. This is an often forgotten time of American history when we supported Iraq and Saddam. I hope this book is widely read by a younger generation and gives them a new perspective of America in the Middle East. Also it was an awesome book.