Recommendations (or not) from April

Here's a list of recommendations from today's discussion...

• Douglas Adams: Long dark tea time of the soul
• Graham Greene: The Quiet American
• Mark Haddon: A Spot of Bother
• Temple Grandin: Thinking in Pictures
• And a non-recommendation: Lunatics, by Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel

We talked about adding Temple Grandin's book to the list: any thoughts?

Recommendations from March meeting

Len and others recommended the books below for more reading on Vietnam:

• A Bright Shining Lie, by Neil Sheehan
• Sacred War, by William Duiker
• Chickenhawk, by Robert Mason
• Run Between the Raindrops, by Dale A. Dye
• Why Vietnam, by Archimedes Patti
• Matterhorn, by Karl Marlantes

Interestingly, all of these books rated over 4 stars on Amazon. Is Amazon deleting lower starred reviews, or are these books uniformly great? Chickenhawk is especially highly rated.

If anybody remembers the name of the historic figure we talked about from a 19th century Prussian war, could you post it in comments?

Hope to see you all in April.