Sat, 9 November 2013
Spent the day reading The Third Reich by Roberto Bolano. Had heard about the book - and given that I played the game in my mispent youth, I decided to read it. Selve description here: On vacation with his girlfriend, Ingeborg, the German war-game champion Udo Berger returns to a small town on the Costa Brava where he spent his summers as a child. There, they meet another vacationing German couple, who introduce them to the darker side of the resort town’s life. Soon Udo is enmeshed in a round of the Third Reich, his favorite World War II strategy game, with a shadowy local called El Quemado. As the game draws to its conclusion, Udo discovers that the outcome may be all too real. Link to NYT review here: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/25/books/review/the-third-reich-by-roberto-bolano-book-review.html?_r=0 I should get episode XVIII of Guns, Dice, Butter published in the next week or so.
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