"When everyone is dead the Great Game is finished. Not before. "

 - Hurree Babu (Kim, Rudyard Kipling)

I bought Bells of Shangri-La

found it to be terrible .terrible. I feel like someone took the diary of the original Hurree Babu and tacked on many many  passages of high school level flowery-ness, and shipped it off to the presses without an editor looking at it...

felt a pang that I was one of those types who don't return things

that frontier has always been a source of great fascination

starting from Tintin in Tibet, Rudyard Kipling's Kim,  The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes, Seven years in Tibet, Magic and Mystery in Tibet ...

all grist for the mill

honest confession. I haven't read past chapters 1-2 of a couple of these...

something about the place whispers "magic!"