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	• The Places In Between Rory Stewart Harvest Books, 2006 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 153 reviews view larger image
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Next Time Take a Car

I've read several books on Afghanistan and it truly sounds like the worst place on earth. The people are still living in the stone age and are for the most part illiterate, cultureless and cruel to animals and women alike. Sure, they're religious--fervently religious--but where has that gotten them other than fueling generations of hatred between themselves. When you walk across Afghanistan, like author Rory Stewart did after 9/11, you're really seeing the minutae of these local's lives, going from one hovel made of mud to the next, eating and sleeping with strange hosts, if they felt inclined to generosity. But each place Stewart goes to is pretty much just like the place he left and so the reader has a tedious journey while the author's is torturous. It just doesn't make for an interesting read. I'd rather he have taken a car, zoomed across everywhere he walked, and written a short article for a magazine.

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Beyond good!

If you really want to understand something basic about Afghanistan, read this book. I have read columns by Rory Stewart in the NYT and thought he was a very clear thinker, so I bought this book. This man is an amazingly accute observer of his environment and brings a great deal of wisdom to bear on his subject.

But don't think this book will be chore to read! It is a real page turner.

One of the best books I have read in a year.

Read it!

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Liked but Did not Love

I liked but did not love this book. It's an eyeopening look at Afghanistan and when you read it, you realize just how much you don't know about the country. I liked the whole story of Rory's dog and some of his close calls with disaster were well told. But what's missing is the real scope of his journey. Many of the places he goes and days he has run together and although it's a decent read, it's not a great one. If Jon Krakauer had written this book I think it would have been much more riveting as Rory Stewart never can reach that same level of excitement and immediacy.

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Excellent book

I recommend to anyone who has a burning desire to know what Afghanistan is really like... My husband was deployed to Afghanistan in 2005. He doesn't talk much about it so I started looking for a book to help me understand how the local people live, and if they really are as barbaric as the news and media leads on. This was it...

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