ADM Videoblog #13 — “American Journalists Detained in North Korea: The Controversy.”
I got through Laura and Lisa Ling’s “Somewhere Inside: One Sister’s Captivity in North Korea and the Other’s Fight to Bring Her Home” (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062000675?ie=UTF8&tag=adadanmez-20&…) in just the one sitting yesterday.
It was a well-crafted entertaining read, yet one which skimmed over the rampant controversy surrounding the diplomatic efforts to liberate the two captives (Laura Ling & Euna Lee), one which nearly caused an international political incident.
I summarize the case for you here…ADM Videoblog #8 — “Not Taking No For An Answer.”
<p>Yet more inspirational fare from Paul Arden’s bestselling “It’s Not How Good You Are. It’s How Good You Want To Be.” http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0714843377?ie=UTF8&tag=adadanmez-20&… This time, on refusing to accept “no” as a valid response.</p>
ADM Videoblog #7 — “The Person Who Doesn’t Make Mistakes Is Unlikely To Make Anything.”
<p>Yet more inspirational fare from Paul Arden’s bestselling “It’s Not How Good You Are. It’s How Good You Want To Be.” http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0714843377?ie=UTF8&tag=adadanmez-20&…/p>
ADM Videoblog #3 — “Extraordinary Evil: A Short Walk to Genocide”
I was reminded of a 1994 atrocity when I read this book. In all its misery and shame:
<p>These were my thoughts and feelings after getting through Barbara Coloroso’s amazing Extraordinary Evil: A Short Walk to Genocide (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1568583710?ie=UTF8&tag=adadanmez-20&…). I was duly reminded of 1994’s Rwandan genocide and of Roy Depuis’ dead-ringer performance of former UNAMIR commander General Romeo Dallaire in Shake Hands With the Devil (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0472562/).</p>
ADM Videoblog #1 — “Don’t Hoard Your Ideas”
My thouights and reflections following my read of Paul Arden’s bestselling book, “It’s Not How Good You Are. It’s How Good You Want To Be.”
The Aquariums of Pyongyang | Read It and Cherish Your Freedom | Several Reasons to Avoid the North Korean Gulag
Going old school | Writing chez moi | Isn’t that odd?
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The Czechs clash with their former overlords today on the ice. A little too much mustard, a little too late, don’t you think? ;-P There will be drunks on Prague’s streets tonight…
Kang Chol-Hwan’s bestselling North Korean captivity memoir found itself on my required reading list for May. When it slid into my mailbox last week I – again – nearly plowed through its pages in record time. These “single sitting finishes” have been happening to me often lately, a good sign, alas. Means I’m picking them correctly. Means we’re getting close. Means…well, it means a whole lot of things!
So what is it about titles like The Aquariums of Pyongyang?
Why do I find myself drawn so magnetically to these sorts of emotive sagas recounting the tragedies of seemingly hopeless individuals who find themselves staring dead into the snake eyes of what Life has to offer, only to emerge on the other side wiser, more enlightened, and more worldly then ever before?
The story of author Kang’s life is horrific in the extreme.
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