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I appreciate this book's honesty in leaving out the obvious choices of Hitler and Gengas Kan, since everyone already knows about them. Still, on the first person, Osama Bin Laden, it's good to learn how he was infamous before 911. Over 11 years of school talking about 911 never once has a teacher explained what Osama was doing following the event.

I'm liking the book so far, but it has a bit of a slog. It's a 3-story book, and the first was really good. It was a neat mystery story and didn't have an unnecessarily negative ending. The second story hasn't been too bad so far, but it's going very slowly and has no real horror elements about halfway through. Overall, it's a fun book, but I wouldn't blame someone for picking these up just for the cover story.

On pg. 103, this is just really sad, going through the unfair court case of a little boy's murder. At almost every turn, I'm surprised that everyone on the prosecutor's side is still going with the fact that every single white person has already made up their mind, and most black people who may be supportive are too scared to testify. Only 3 people have testified, and 1 was overcome with fear, it's heartbreaking.