These are some of the books I read during last half a century or so, and some of the thoughts, questions, reactions and insights, emotions - and so forth -, evoked on reading them, either then or later sometime during the interim years and decades, or even thinking over now, that are summed up here while trying to record my impressions about what I read.
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
The Day Of The Jackal: by Frederick Forsyth.
Few sources could have let the world outside know about the various factors as far as people not involved with then diplomatic or political world involved, about the attempts on life of De Gaulle, a national hero of France since the end of wwII, and about the general displeasure about Algerian independence in various circles in France. It was electrifying in how much one learns from this tale set in the sixties in France.