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I want to encourage everyone to read this book.........


My biggest regret is that there are only 7 people on this message board.......

But if we can get Mvscal, IB, EAP, Smack, Lefty and a couple other people to read it
then they can pass it on and all those people pass it on and pass it on until infinity...


Anyhoo...this book is about Cambodia before the killing fields..

It tells how the Khmer Rouge came to power in Cambodia...

they started out in the villages
they indoctrinated the young
they got them to tear down statues
they got them to turn in their parents
they got them to destroy the history of their country

they tricked people with educations to join the cause
Can you speak a foreign language? Yes! Taken into the jungle and never seen again.

The Khmer Rougue took the playbook from the French Revolution
The Bolsheviks took the playbook from the French
Pol Pot took the playbook from the Bolsheviks
BLACK LIVES MATTER TOOK THE PLAYBOOK FROM POL POT

If you don't wake up soon..Pol Pot is coming to America as Black Lives Matter!

READ
THE
FUKKKEN
BOOK!

If I can get mvscal to read either of these books...

My life will be complete.

The Big Pickle wrote: ↑Sat Jun 27, 2020 4:19 pm


If I can get mvscal to read either of these books...

My life will be complete.

Please, mvscal...do your civic duty.

Smackie is one of the smartest people in America.

The Big Pickle wrote: ↑Sat Jun 27, 2020 4:10 pm If you don't wake up soon..Pol Pot is coming to America as Black Lives Matter

I can be no more impressed by that hyberbole than by that declaring the Holocaust the worst example of genocide in human history.

Do you want a public opinion or private opinion?

Public please. :)

The Big Pickle wrote: ↑Sat Jun 27, 2020 5:18 pmSmackie is one of the smartest people in America.

Not even close. Nearer to the other end of the spectrum.

752 pages ... Jesus Christ ... those are Follett numbers.

On the first page and I already feel claustrophobic. That entire region looks like a trap from which there is no escape. It's honestly the alien-ness of the place names, and the creepiness of the lack of names the further one travels from the water to the interior and China.

I shouldn't have read the list of characters. I have no reference point for those names, and the meanings behind those names. If they were Romanized, there'd be a cultural connection. I would 'know' the history of each person's ancestry, social standing and potential importance through latent understanding of etymology. But I don't know these names, so I can't pre-judge these people. They might as well be Martians.

Except for the Americans. Their names are bland and Irish, foreigners beaten into acceptable homogenized paste by the cultural deflavoring mechanics of central casting.

Kindle for Android needs a way to cross reference back and forth between pages easily.

Enough hoe babble. Time to dive in.

Yeah..I remember it was a long read but I couldn't stop until I was finished. I think it took me a week to read the whole book.

The cambodian names and places make it a little bit tougher to read in the beginning. Eventually, you get to how they kidnapped children in
the middle of the night and turned them into stone cold killers. They murdered so many people they ran out of bullets. They had to find other ways to murder people with clubs, knives and even pushing them over cliffs.

It's unbelievable!, One in every three people were murdered..and most were killed by children!!!

I knew a Cambodian college student at the U of Maine, Van Sok. Wonder what ever happened to him. If he returned to Cambodia, he was probably one of the victims."The Killing Fields" was an eye opener for sure.

Wolfman wrote: ↑Sun Jun 28, 2020 9:20 pm I knew a Cambodian college student at the U of Maine, Van Sok. Wonder what ever happened to him.

You knew him in college? Died of old age. What do I win?

Factions, Influences and Military Dispositions is brutal.
- ZeDong obviously wanted those people to die.
- Sihanouk's actions make zero sense, for an absolute dictator, starting with the contrafiction of encouraging higher efucation but also punishing higher education. He was afraid of the CIA? So who put him in power and kept him in power?
- Why was Vietnam trying to absorb Cambodia in the first place?
- If everyone is broke and in debt, why did the population boom?
- Sihanouk obviously wanted his own people to die.

I wanted more on France's history and role in this mess.

Python wrote: ↑Mon Jun 29, 2020 3:05 am

Wolfman wrote: ↑Sun Jun 28, 2020 9:20 pm I knew a Cambodian college student at the U of Maine, Van Sok. Wonder what ever happened to him.

You knew him in college? Died of old age. What do I win?

If he was lucky, and escaped, then yes. Otherwise ... doesn't look good, going by the book. :(

Innocent Bystander wrote: ↑Sun Jun 28, 2020 12:01 pm 752 pages ... Jesus Christ ... those are Follett numbers.

Just started A Column of Fire, it will be my vacation book.