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The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan

von Kim Barker

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Biography & Autobiography. Essays. Nonfiction. Humor (Nonfiction.) HTML:Now a Major Motion Picture titled Whiskey Tango Foxtrot starring Tina Fey, Margot Robbie, Martin Freeman, Alfred Molina, and Billy Bob Thornton.

From tea with warlords in the countryside to parties with drunken foreign correspondents in the ??dry? city of Kabul, journalist Kim Barker captures the humor and heartbreak of life in post-9/11 Afghanistan and Pakistan in this profound and darkly comic memoir. As Barker grows from awkward newbie to seasoned reporter, she offers an insider??s account of the region??s ??forgotten war? at a time when all eyes were turned to Iraq. Candid, self-deprecating, and laugh-out-loud funny, Barker shares both her affection for the absurdities of these two hapless countries and her fear for their… (mehr)
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I remember reading a newspaper review of the film "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" where Kim Barker was asked what it was like to see her life portrayed on the big screen. She sidestepped the question with some polite answer, but after reading her book, I can feel her pain.

The movie is nothing like the book.

Now when you read something like that, you're accustomed to thinking, "Yeah, they always screw up the movie adaptation of good books."

No. The movie is nothing like the book.

Literally.

Yes, there's a journalist who goes to Afghanistan, and her name is Kim Barker, and there endeth all similarities. Which is a shame, because the book is really good, and the movie (if you see it before you read the book) seems to hold its own, but if you read the book afterward, you realize...

The movie is nothing like the book.

Contrary to popular belief, many movies are better than the books they're based on. The novel "The Dark Fields," for instance, felt repetitive and uninspired beyond a certain point; the brilliant screenplay for "Limitless" by Leslie Dixon, covered up all the shortcomings of "The Dark Fields" and punched up the plot, the relationships and the ending. (Leslie Dixon, by the way, is an extremely talented screenwriter whose work I'm impressed with.)

So a movie that deviates from the book can add value to the story. A movie that has nothing to do with the book, when the book is really good, is unfortunately sad, because I love cinema, just as I love a good book.

Trust me on this one: you want to skip the movie and read the book instead. ( )
  Ricardo_das_Neves | Jan 14, 2023 |
The movie, Whiskey Tango Foxtrox, was much better than the book which had several off-putting features: it was as if it were written by a self-absorbed teenager. It felt like half the anecdotes were about getting her ass grabbed by a senior person in the government trying to date her. There was essentially nothing about Afghanistan or Pakistan and the setting could have been almost anywhere. ( )
  Castinet | Dec 11, 2022 |
Did not finish
  Rozzie | Sep 9, 2022 |
I'm not sure if the book would have been better if I had read it more quickly (nearly 5 months is a LONG read for me). As it was, I was often confused about what and when things were happening and would forget names and previous encounters with people. Still, it was interesting to get a first hand opinion of what is causing so much unrest in Afghanistan and Pakistan. ( )
  Sarah220 | Jan 23, 2021 |
every picture of her looks different. she writes with honesty. I am honest too but I don't tell everything. ( )
  mahallett | Jul 25, 2020 |
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Biography & Autobiography. Essays. Nonfiction. Humor (Nonfiction.) HTML:Now a Major Motion Picture titled Whiskey Tango Foxtrot starring Tina Fey, Margot Robbie, Martin Freeman, Alfred Molina, and Billy Bob Thornton.

From tea with warlords in the countryside to parties with drunken foreign correspondents in the ??dry? city of Kabul, journalist Kim Barker captures the humor and heartbreak of life in post-9/11 Afghanistan and Pakistan in this profound and darkly comic memoir. As Barker grows from awkward newbie to seasoned reporter, she offers an insider??s account of the region??s ??forgotten war? at a time when all eyes were turned to Iraq. Candid, self-deprecating, and laugh-out-loud funny, Barker shares both her affection for the absurdities of these two hapless countries and her fear for their

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