this was one of the best books i’ve read in awhile. i was not familiar w/idi amin prior to this novel. it has prompted me to read more about him. i find him fascinating, as any dictator’s mind i would. it just baffles me how you can justify your deeds. one of my favorite passages in the book was when ng finally asks amin about the bomb he had delivered to swanepoel’s plane.-
””You know that plane exploded, the Rafiki one?” I said to Amin. “Is that what happened?” he replied, ingenuously. “Well, you know that whites are exploding all the time nowadays.”
“what do you mean, exploding?” I said. “Exploding where?”
“Everywhere. They’re just exploding and nobody knows why….”
i highly recommend this book. it reads quickly, you get caught up in it, or at least i did, and although fiction is based on facts.

i am loving this book so far. i really liked how the first chapter caught my attention, and so far the rest are v. fluid.

I enjoyed this but it will be interesting to see what the movie is like. Idi Amin was not the main character of the story, more of a backdrop. I can see how they could make him more of a main character but it makes me wonder why. Why does the celebrity figure need to be the main character – if that is what they do to the movie. I’ve always loved his acting but after seeing him on Inside the Actor’s Studio Forest Whitaker is my new hero. I can’t wait till this movie comes close.