by David Sasaki | Feb 16, 2013 | Book Review, English
I would also like to write a book. Several, in fact. There are topics that refuse to be neatly encompassed in a single blog post, or even a series of many posts. A well-delivered argument that adds substantially to our understanding of how the world works can take at least 300 pages to articulate. As an avid consumer of ideas, I find myself spending more time reading books than blog posts.
by David Sasaki | Sep 13, 2010 | English
One of the most refreshing books I’ve read this year has been Khaled al-Khamissi’s Taxi. (A kind gift from Noha.) It’s nothing but a slim collection or three-page vignettes that recall conversations with taxi drivers around Cairo. In aggregate these...
by David Sasaki | Oct 20, 2009 | English
All tourists cherish an illusion, of which no amount of experience can ever completely cure them: they imagine that they will find time, in the course of their travels, to do a lot of reading. They see themselves, at the end of a day’s sightseeing or motoring,...
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by David Sasaki | Jan 22, 2008 | English
It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore. Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year. The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read anymore....
by David Sasaki | Aug 8, 2005 | English
September 18, 2003 Habana Vieja, Cuba Last night I picked up two books – History Will Absolve Me – Fidel’s famous speech – and also a collection of essays by Jose Martí. I got fairly far into History Will Absolve Me, but I put it down for...
by David Sasaki | Jun 8, 2005 | Book Review, English, Music
Never one to let a good meme die. Myke asks 1. Estimate the total number of books you’ve owned in your life. This is gonna have to be one hell of a rough guess. Probably at least half the books I’ve read have been traded with other travelers while on the...
