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I personally found this to be a great tool to help bridge all the works I’ve already read and relate them to the praxis I’m trying to see in reality. Definitely something I will be picking up for myself to revisit and will be recommending!

I need my own copy of this. I hav notes to make on nearly every page. 
So many points where I found myself shouting encouragement at particularly insightful moments like I was at a sporting event. I was so invested and I found this so well written. Depressing in its accuracy but it never shied away from shining the light on the moldy, crumbling corners. 

WOW. WOW wow wow. 

Worth the slow read bc this was certainly a subject I knew pretty much NOTHING about. Covers not only the disaster and response but goes pre- and post to give context and examines what the response meant in a larger context. 

Highly recommend. 

I can’t even bring myself to form sentences. God bless Madge. Dear god. 


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But also, this is the type of story that makes me believe that people survive off of spite and hate because HOW. HOWWWW did this man 1) achieve parole and 2) find the evil needed to attempt to assault (ANOTHER!!) sixteen year old at 70 and NOT serve time. 

I can’t. I swear, all nonfiction does is wind me up and depress me at the same time.

I wish nothing but evil for everyone involved in this Vietnam-styled power grab of distraction. 

The more I learn about the military history of this country, the more disgusted I become with America and its leaders. 

I stick to my previous observation that no sooner do we “retreat” from a war or conflict than we involve ourselves in another in order to keep our incompetence and horrific crimes (not only against our own citizens but especially against the civilians of the invaded country in the name of “patriotism” and “international security”) from our own citizens. The outrage against every conflict we’ve involved ourselves in would bring this country to its knees if not for the propaganda surrounding it and the propaganda convincing us there is another threat immediately on our doorstep. 

This was not just fascinating but engrossing! I wish I had read this before my two years anatomy and physiology. But before you think you need to have a medical background, you absolutely don’t. Bryson is an engrossing storyteller and half of the information he gives you is immediately followed by truly jaw dropping factoids that act like breadcrumbs that draw you in and before you know it, you’re in the next chapter. 

Truly a fabulous trip through the meat skin we all inhabit!