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It is indeed a damn fine read, Killer. Even if you’ve read the stuff archived on his blog (discussed earlier in this thread), there’s a lot of early stuff from the Where is Raed? Days before the blog became Dear Raed, plus some of his Guardian column. He also kept on writing when he couldn’t blog for a spell and those entries are interposed where they should be chronologically. All the sites to which he refers are footnoted so you can have a fine time online checking them out.
So, even if you’ve been reading the blog, the book’s worth buying for its description of life in Iraq before, during and after Shock and Awe, and also for snatches like this in the middle of the heavier stuff:
I have been getting quite a lot of linky-lovin’ from something called Sensible Erection. I get an ACCESS DENIED screen when I try to open the page. I can only hope the site has chosen me as the sexiest Bear in the Middle East.
I think I’m in love. I can (almost) see the point of blogs now.
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