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I actually read this book while on my honeymoon. Well, you got to read something while lounging by the pool.
I learned that Osama bin Laden and I lived in the same neighborhood in Peshawar, Pakistan in the late 1980s. Coll did a lot of digging to put together this epic book. It can read as a dry history book at times, but that shouldn't stop anyone from reading it. Should be read along with Charlie Wilson's War and Taliban by Ahmed Rashid.
Stew Magnuson
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I learned that Osama bin Laden and I lived in the same neighborhood in Peshawar, Pakistan in the late 1980s. Coll did a lot of digging to put together this epic book. It can read as a dry history book at times, but that shouldn't stop anyone from reading it. Should be read along with Charlie Wilson's War and Taliban by Ahmed Rashid.
Stew Magnuson
Author of "The Death of Raymond Yellow Thunde ...more
Apr 02, 2009
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Wow, I need to read this right away too.
Absolutely fascinating and thorough. A bit too thorough perhaps. Every detail is recorded and the source list in the bibliography is massive. Well-done, but a bit windy. A more concise version would have earned 5 stars from me.
Fwiw the Audible edition is poorly edited.
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