Recommended crime reads from the Jan19th issue of the Economist:
"Who is Conrad Hirst" by Kevin Wignall , part of a series
"Dead Men" by Stephen Leather, about british and ira stuff
"Red Mandarin Dress" by Qiu Xiaolong. A Shanghai police story. Should be interesting as a human perspective of China's growth
"Pretty Dead Things" by Barbara Nadel -- a missing nymphomaniac in Istanbul (whoa). Another police story
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I saw "Motorcycle Diaries" and "Babel" yesterday and the day before. The kind of movies that are hard to get in India and which I miss much about the US.
Motorcycle Diaries -- gorgeously beautiful and moving but a little pat. I'm glad to learn a little about Che finally. Apparently, the iconic image of Che that you can see on T-shirts is possibly the most reproduced photograph in the world.
"Babel" -- disappointing. We saw it on VCD without subtitles, so most of the movie we had to try to understand just through the action. It didn't hang together very well I thought.
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