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I want more comedy. Especially the guys write about how nuts el presidente de los EE.UU. is. I want more history, literature, classics. Good contemporary authors (excluding John Grisham - read too many now) writing decent suspense.
Try English Books stores or English sections in public libraries. B.A. has a few. Popular hostals/hotels always a great source for books too.

Dozens of books outlining the last seven years of the Bush debacle. The great ones will be written when Bush, Cheney, Rove, and about 20 other key players (like Addington, Libby, Delay, Gonzales) are all behind bars, along with about 10 key Congress folk who are all complicit in the many crimes they have commited against the USA and the world.

Some very well informed commentators on the Bush legacy are on line.Not all directly about Bush....but many link the subject to our current admin. as the source/cause for all kinds of situations worldwide...and provide good documentation.

Guys like Seymour Hirsch (New Yorker), Noam Chomsky, Jeremy Skahill (book on Blackwater Security), and one of my favorites, Robert Fisk. Fisk is a Brit who has lived in Lebanon for 30 years and probably has more up close and personal knowledge about the middle east than 50 Fox News pundits and so called experts. Also has great insight into the Bush Admin. and its rise to power. There are dozens of others, just scratching the surface here.

In the meantime, go for re-reads of the classics....
Gabriel Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude" is a great read...again.
I read it while in Colombia in 1975.

Likewise, a favorite from my youth....Henry Miller. Tropic of Cancer &
Capricorn, Lexus, Nexus, Plexus, were my favs. I worked on a film about Miller
when he was living, hung out with him when he was in his 80's and chasing his
20 something Japanese wife around the house naked. Miller is a crack up. Henry's son, Tony, and I went to school together, so I met Henry the first time in about 1965. Miller was an avid bicycle rider and could have been a motorcyclist if given the chance. He loved two wheels as much as sex!

Re-read Doris Lessing, she just one the 2007 Nobel Prize for lit. (about 40 years overdue). Lawernce Durrell (Alexandria Quartet), Jack Kerouac, Herman Hesse, Carson McCullers, and dozens of others I can't recall. (too many concussions). If you're near Bariloche still, plenty of sources there if you takl to the right people.

Cheers,

Patrick
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