Although the night vision was working well, the long grass and non-glow-in-the-darkedness of the golf balls and general crappy shooting made night vision golf a bit harder than anticipated. Winner: Matt by 10 strokes.
The Devil Tree - Jerzey Kuzinsky (Obtained from Jacques in exchange for Blood Hunt - Read on TB enroute to Tana) Definitely the wierdest book read in Madagascar and that is saying something because the list also includes A Time of Laughter and Forgetting which was really really wierd in it's own right. The devil tree refers to the Baobab tree but what the book is actually about I have no idea.
1984 - George Orwell (Obtained from Dr Sabrina at Grand Hotel Pool in exchange for kind words) I thought I had read this but it must have been Animal Farm that I had read as it was all new to me. Quite a bit deeper than the BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU that has stood the test of time
Blood Hunt - Ian Rankin writing as Jack Harvey (obtained from Jacques at Les Arcades in exchange for Cry Wolf) DG comment: this book couldn't decide whether it wanted to be a conspiracy novel, a revenge novel, or an SAS action novel as a result it lacked a bit in each category but was ok considering I was desparate for some english language reading material by the time I got to Diego Suarez.
Cry Wolf - Wilbur Smith - (Read on various taxi brousse's and when bored in Ambositra) Cool adventure novel, easy to read period just-pre WW2 Africa war book generally liked it and it makes me want to wikipedia Ethiopean history.
The Honourable Schoolboy - John Le Carré (starting from page 165 read on various taxi brousse's finished in Manakara) Generally crap I like spy novels but this one was uninteresting and crap even though I had no trouble following it despite picking it up 165 pages in.
A Fish Caught in Time - The Search for the Coelacanth - Samantha Weinberg (Borrowed from La Grand Bleu dive club and read on the beach in Ifaty in between dives 2 and 3)
Farewell Waltz - Milan Kundera (Pirogue de Mer, la plage) - DG comment good book, lots of interesting characters and bizzare scenarios. Set in Prague in the '70s. Would make a good film.
Rich Dad, Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki (Pirogue de Mer, la plage) "Mind your own business" "Work to learn" "Pay yourself first"
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - Milan Kundera (Priogue de Mer, la plage) "Right in the middle of Prague, Wenceslaus Square, there is this guy throwing up. And this other guy comes along, takes a look at him and says "I know just what you mean."
Bel Canto - Ann Patchet (Pirogue de Mer, la plage) "'Do you mean to shoot us?' He said in French, a simple sentence he couldn't say in Spanish because he didn't know the word for shoot, a word he imagined he should make a point to learn."
The Shock Doctorine - Naomi Klien (4x4, priogue de mer, la plage)
The Dolphin's Tooth - Bruce Kirkby (priogue + 4x4)
Having registered the domain name davegerhard.com. I'm planning on using the blog to tell the tales of my trip around the world in 2008/09. After that the idea is to create a proper website.
1 comment:
Sweet, looks like fun.
When do you get back so I know when to clean the place!
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