What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

[macdoc]

Hard not to get teary eyed at some of the voice mails transcribed from people on the hijacked planes and reactions in general to what was happening. Very comprehensive. The pace of the quoted conversations and recollections are just relentless, from Dick Cheney down to the smallest page at Congress trying to figure out where to park the giant flag container she was responsible for that day ....running down the Mall with them.
Particularly moving were the calls coming from Flight 93 - they had cell contact and were sometimes conversing with loved ones.
Pretty brave the bunch that forced that crash.

[Sean Hayden]

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—a book for Tero

[macdoc]

and me ...consider my avatar title.
Love it

[Sean Hayden]

Indeed, here you go…

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[pErvinalia]

[macdoc]

Much fun and very relevant.

https://www.scifimind.com/service-model ... haikovsky/

[Brian Peacock]

I enjoyed that a lot. I think he's one of the most interesting writers in the genre atm. The Children of Time and The Final Architecture trilogies are cracking good reads.

[macdoc]

Lots of space opera, bit of bodice ripper, intriguing mystery.
https://allaboutromance.com/book-review ... chel-bach/

[macdoc]

A sci-fi fairy tale on an astonishing scale



https://allaboutromance.com/book-review ... t%20trader?

[macdoc]

Been a long while....the guy is an incredible wordsmith.

[macdoc]

[macdoc]

It's very interesting to read a first hand account right on the edge of the railroad opening Africa often to tribes that had very little contact with the outside world. Of course the maneaters were horrendous but the other stories are also excellent and easy to imagine oneself back just before the turn of the 19th century before war and influenza ravaged the world. Britain at the height of it's empire. Very satisfying read.

Would be a good companion read to some of the histories of Africa and empires like the Shaka Zulu ....their leader a military and social organizational genius on a par with Napoleon....and who nearly defeated the British army. I might grab a few of the relevant books to re-read.
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Shaka - Wikipedia
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Shaka
Shaka kaSenzangakhona (c. 1787 – c. 22 September 1828), also known as Shaka[2] Zulu (Zulu pronunciation: [ˈʃaːɠa]), was the most influential leader of the Zulu Kingdom. He is widely credited with uniting many of the Northern Nguni people, specifically the Mtetwa Paramountcy and the Ndwandwe into...
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[macdoc]

Despite inflicting a convincing nightmare on myself I persist.

Very evocative, irreverant and brutal writer.