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Title: Conversations With Cuba by C. Peter Ripley, Bob Shacochis ISBN: 0-8203-2302-0 Publisher: University of Georgia Press Pub. Date: May, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.36 (11 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: An author you just want to smack in the head...
Comment: It is hard to put one's finger on just what it is about this guy that is so damn annoying. Maybe it's the way he spouts off "facts" about Cuba that would appear to have been gleaned from Reader's Digest. Maybe it is the way he reminds one of that pesky "authority" sitting next to you on an international flight who deems it his responsibility to enlighten everyone else in coach. Or maybe it is just that he appears to be so damn american. Whatever it is, it is creepy. Pick it up at your library and give it a quick read some afternoon, but only after you have read works by more credible authors. There are scores out there with more credibility on this subject.
Rating: 2
Summary: Awful book ...
Comment: This book blows. Buy the book by Christopher Hunt, "Waiting for Fidel", which is funnier and more accurate (albeit also flawed by a no-fun author). This book tries to be ponderous, serious, weighty, but with no analysis, just postering. The author is an ... (or at least claims to be) when Cuba is in fact crying out as a place to have fun. The author tries to engage in seditious conversation about politics at every turn, when most people (and I have visited Cuba) just want to get on with life. What a bore and waste of money. I almost think the author threw together this book so he can claim that he is a professor who has published. By the way, the author should educate himself when railing against the U.S. embargo as the root of Cuba's ills--according to the Cato Institute, the embargo is not that disruptive--the fault lies in communism. But again, I don't care about politics, just trying to point out how limited in scope the author's views are....braying about politics, never having fun...on and on and on and...well, I've made my point.
Rating: 4
Summary: Finally, a different view
Comment: I agree with the reviewer who noted that this book gives a different perspective than the typical Cold War paranoid view of Cuba. The changes in Cuba from trip to trip were evident in the author's descriptions. Clearly, the book is slanted toward the Cuban people and away from the Castro regime. However, it did give a nice view of daily life for the ordinary citizen. After a while, though, the book seemed to drag on. Overall, though, it was nice to have a new view of Cuban life, and it clearly showed how the embargo is only hurting the Cuban people.
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Title: Havana: Two Faces of the Antillean Metropolis by Joseph L. Scarpaci, Roberto Segre, Mario Coyula, Andres Duany ISBN: 0807853690 Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Castro's Daughter : An Exile's Memoir of Cuba by Alina Fernández Revuelta, Dolores M. Koch ISBN: 031224293X Publisher: Griffin Trade Paperback Pub. Date: 10 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Ay, Cuba! : A Socio-Erotic Journey by Andrei Codrescu, David Graham ISBN: 0312274718 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 21 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Cuba: Between Reform and Revolution (Latin American Histories) by Louis A. Perez ISBN: 0195094824 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: December, 1995 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
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Title: Jose Marti: Selected Writings (Penguin Classics) by Jose Marti, Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria, Esther Allen ISBN: 0142437042 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 30 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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