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Title: More Terrible than Death: Massacres, Drugs, and America's War in Colombia by Robin Kirk ISBN: 1-58648-104-5 Publisher: PublicAffairs Pub. Date: 07 January, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.38 (8 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Good info but poor editing
Comment: As already stated this book provides some good info on the people and actions that have troubled Colombia. Kirk prefaces her work by stating her biases and her position so when these biases show, especially with a slight lean towards the leftist cause (or more accurately seeming to oppose the right-wing paramilitaries moreso than the equally lost and violent leftists), the reader easily excuses this. I was more dismayed by the editing. Kirk frequently begins a story with a character that leads into another character without seeming to wrap up what she began to write about. I often felt a lost train of thought; either from the author or from my having to bounce from subject to subject. Additionally some of the writing was unclear. There were at least a few sentences that were grammatically incorrect, lacking clarity, or run-ons. I felt the material was very good but the delivery was average. There should have been better editing.
Rating: 5
Summary: As Good As ROOR. Both Are Great Reads!
Comment: Although both books,"this" one and "ROOR" (Running Out Of Road, by Robert Appleton)are equally insightful, Mr. Kirk's book is a drug facts book, and ROOR utilizes these facts in a true crime story. Both are GREAT READS!
Rating: 5
Summary: "Don't doubt. To give up is more terrible than death."
Comment: More than anything else I've read on the subject, Robin Kirk's "More Terrible Than Death" brings a degree of clarity and focus to the complicated, multi-layered hornet's nest of terrorism, endemic violence, drugs and corruption that are the scourge of the proud nation of Colombia.
It's interesting to note that in spite of documenting a wide range of horrific events, Kirk focuses on a glimmer of hope. The book's title is perversely positive. It comes from one of her Colombian human rights associates, who says to her (as she questions whether her efforts may be doing more harm than good) "Don't doubt. To give up is more terrible than death."
The story within the story is Kirk's exemplary bravery in compiling the tales that make up this story. This is no armchair analysis.
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Title: Killing Peace: Colombia's Conflict and the Failure of U.S. Intervention by Garry M. Leech ISBN: 097203840X Publisher: Information Network of the Americas Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: Colombia: Fragmented Land, Divided Society (Latin American Histories) by Frank Safford, Marco Palacios ISBN: 019504617X Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: July, 2001 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Bad Neighbor Policy: Washington's Futile War on Drugs in Latin America by Ted Galen Carpenter ISBN: 1403961379 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Driven by Drugs: U.S. Policy Toward Colombia by Russell Crandall ISBN: 1588260895 Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Walking Ghosts: Murder and Guerrilla Politics in Colombia by Steven Dudley ISBN: 041593303X Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: January, 2004 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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