looking for a good read? dispatches from the edge: a memoir of war, disasters and survival by anderson cooper is what i'm recommending. i understand that maybe i'm a little bias as i was an anderson cooper fan anyway. i like to know the news, but generally, i have a distrust of the media. i think it's a back stabbing, blood thirsty, ratings hungry fiasco and we don't get the real news. or the important news. and the reporters are fake. when i watch anderson cooper report, i feel like i'm watching a real person. his reports don't seem like he's just standing there reading a teleprompter. even though he is a reporter and he does go after the bloody stories, he just seems different. i don't know what it is. maybe it's that silver hair. whatever it is, when his book came out, i read the excerpt on the 360 blog. i was curious and went looking for more snippits of it. after visiting many an anderson cooper fansite, i realized i was going to have to read it for myself. so i got it on sunday. i started it on monday [yesterday] morning on the bus on my way to school. and i finished it today on my way home. let me point out that i am a reader. i have read a lot of books. fiction and non-fiction. i have gotten attached to characters in books i've read and i've cried over sad things and gotten excited and angry and all the other emotions. but no book has ever had the effect on me that this book had. i don't even know what to say about it. i want to say everything, but i don't have the right words. i don't know where to begin. i can't relate to the loss he's suffered, or the terrible things he's seen, but i know what it's like to feel lost. his honesty is, i think, the biggest thing. his honesty makes it all so real. the jacket describes the book as, "gripping, candid, and remarkably powerful", "striking, heartfelt and utterly engrossing". i know that these words are all just "jacket speak" to suck you in, but to me, this book was all these things and more. maybe i'm too into it and maybe i'm crazy and maybe i've taken the bait and just been sucked in by a ratings hungry reporter. but i'm going to read it again.
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
dispatches from the edge
looking for a good read? dispatches from the edge: a memoir of war, disasters and survival by anderson cooper is what i'm recommending. i understand that maybe i'm a little bias as i was an anderson cooper fan anyway. i like to know the news, but generally, i have a distrust of the media. i think it's a back stabbing, blood thirsty, ratings hungry fiasco and we don't get the real news. or the important news. and the reporters are fake. when i watch anderson cooper report, i feel like i'm watching a real person. his reports don't seem like he's just standing there reading a teleprompter. even though he is a reporter and he does go after the bloody stories, he just seems different. i don't know what it is. maybe it's that silver hair. whatever it is, when his book came out, i read the excerpt on the 360 blog. i was curious and went looking for more snippits of it. after visiting many an anderson cooper fansite, i realized i was going to have to read it for myself. so i got it on sunday. i started it on monday [yesterday] morning on the bus on my way to school. and i finished it today on my way home. let me point out that i am a reader. i have read a lot of books. fiction and non-fiction. i have gotten attached to characters in books i've read and i've cried over sad things and gotten excited and angry and all the other emotions. but no book has ever had the effect on me that this book had. i don't even know what to say about it. i want to say everything, but i don't have the right words. i don't know where to begin. i can't relate to the loss he's suffered, or the terrible things he's seen, but i know what it's like to feel lost. his honesty is, i think, the biggest thing. his honesty makes it all so real. the jacket describes the book as, "gripping, candid, and remarkably powerful", "striking, heartfelt and utterly engrossing". i know that these words are all just "jacket speak" to suck you in, but to me, this book was all these things and more. maybe i'm too into it and maybe i'm crazy and maybe i've taken the bait and just been sucked in by a ratings hungry reporter. but i'm going to read it again.
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