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Finally reached the chapter regarding the firebombing of Tokyo. This trilogy has made me teary-eyed a few times already, but this part was pretty tough to read

this might sound crazy, but im starting to suspect japan might be losing this war

Wow, the Allies are really putting a lot of effort to fortify Singapore. This better not accidentally lead to the greatest military disaster in British history or anything

Reading about Japan’s slow descent into fascism in the 1930s is reminding me of how I felt watching the Prequels and seeing Anakin become Darth Vader

yeah I'm hooked ngl

Hannah if you’re reading this I want you to know that the description of Tolkien in Part One reminded me so much of Howell 💀💀

let her cook lowkey

Machiavelli and I have almost the exact same Myers-Briggs personality type according to online (only difference is that he's extroverted)

I also have the exact same personality type as George R.R. Martin

I also consider myself a Slytherin

I'm not sure if that says anything about me but I promise I'm not evil guys 💀

Hilarious that Burke is coping and seething about all the chaos the French Revolution has been causing, in 1790, when it’s barely a year old. BROTHER, IF YOU THINK THIS IS BAD, JUST YOU WAIT.

'To know that she had the power of revealing what would so exceedingly astonish Jane, and must, at the same time, so highly gratify whatever of her own vanity she had not yet been able to reason away, was such a temptation to openness as nothing could have conquered but the state of indecision in which she remained as to the extent of what she could communicate....'

Jane, just put the sentence out of its misery lmao

The angel Gabriel showing up like a WWE wrestler to grapple Muhammad for being illiterate (Sahih Muslim 160a) was definitely not on my Islamic theology bingo

My Muslim friend when I asked him about this: 'yeah so he's basically just trying to get Muhammad to lock in'

guys I hate to say this but the parallels between Muhammad and Joseph Smith keep piling up and it's really not looking good at this point 😭😭

I can tell the author went to a private Christian university

this is definitely one of the most books of all time

this book feels like a hug

Pratchett wasn't the most locked-in for this one but it's still a good read so far

The version of events given in this, compared to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, is hilarious

A-SC: 'and in the year of our lord 867 King Ælla of Northumbria fell in battle against the heathens'
Tale of Ragnar's Sons: 'we took King Ælla alive after the battle and blood-eagled him and he died screaming in agony like a loser lol'

Not DEATH showing up in this book like a damn marvel movie cameo

sidetrack: I'm so glad I took an undergrad course on this book's somewhat more successful prequel, The Book of Revelation. I can catch most of the callbacks at least

I'm gonna have to gaslight myself into thinking this book was actually 100% Terry Pratchett and he only put Neil's name on because he felt bad for him or something