Thursday, July 3, 2008

Book recommendation: The Bin Ladens Steve Coll

I just purchased and have only started to read "The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century" by Steve Coll (2008) NY: The Penguin Press.

Even though I am only thirty pages into it I am enjoying it and feel OK with recommending it so early.

It had a little bit of the Hollywood feel to the introduction, but that's the way most books are these days and redeems itself right away in the very colorful and authentic description of life in Yemen and Arabia in the beginning of the past century.