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Surprisingly compelling. The author clearly loves Achilles, and is definitely making me think. (I'm an old-school Odysseus and Diomodes fan.)

This is easily the most academic book I have read in a very long time. It's a very odd mix of things I haven't seen before (the background of metapolitics) and things that I have been following for years. (Thank you Knowledge Fight, Behind the Bastards, and We Hunted the Mammoth.)

The most egregious error, though, is saying that the red pill/blue pill moment takes place at the end of The Matrix. Nope!

Not bad, but really slow by the end.

So far, it is hitting some me-catnip.

This is one of those mysteries where I suspect I know part of the solution because I am a child of the modern era.

I am kind of glad this is the last of the series. I am only 43 pages in, and I am once again sick of Laurence's moaning about his principles and the evils of compromise. (As far as I'm concerned, Roland gave him a definitive slap upside the head at the beginning of book five, and all of his moaning about his principles since then is freaking annoying.)

Holy bleep!

Much easier to read than the nonfiction I have, but I'm going to have try and read that when I'm done with this. As a kid, I only ever really heard about the Dreyfus Affair as it related to Herzl and the Basel Congress. It's fascinating to look at it without that lens.

I skipped the Shlock Holmes story. I loved them when I was young, but I couldn't get more than a couple of paragraphs in. That sort of humor just doesn't appeal now. Plus, I'm not nearly so desperate for anything Holmes-related now.

During the intermission of _Cabaret_, I turned to my husband and said, "I forgot. This is a horror movie. Except that we're not actually going to see the horror part." This book, all 461 pages of text, is the first act of a horror movie. I believe the other two books will be covering "the horror part".

It's a good thing that Lipstadt has an easy flow to her writings that carries the reader along. As the book goes deeper and deeper into the trial, I keep having the same thoughts in my head. "That would be me. That would be my baby girl." There's a reason I don't tend to read Holocaust books anymore.

The constant use of "princess" makes me picture Jack Reid as played by young Harrison Ford.

I'm about a fifth of the way through the book, and we've finished one day on the trail. Also, it's kind of amusing to have all these long-forgotten Washington state history class tidbits bubble up.

I am now at the beginnings of Hitler and the Nazi party. Those f****rs.

I think _The Coming of the Third Reich_ just got put on hold for a while... Seanan's voice is so clear in the Introduction, it's like she's reading it out loud.

Wow. There's a lot in here, but it's very concise and Evans moves you forward very briskly. I definitely have a lot better sense of Weimar Germany than I did a week ago.

Wow. This is surprisingly enjoyable. It's lovely to see Competent!Kachiko and Loving!Shoju.

Very enjoyable. But if I had read _The Barbie Consortium_ first, I would have been terribly confused and likely wouldn't have enjoyed it at all.

Not bad. It was amusing, but I was much more invested in the world than the plot or the characters.

... I'm going to have to re-read RoF2 and 3, aren't I? Plus wherever the Austro-Hungarians showed up before. Bleep if I can remember where that was, though.

Squeeeeee! It's the Roths and Wallenstein! More more more more more!

When they say _Barbie Consortium_ is a prequel, they're not kidding. They lifted a scene wholesale.

When they say _Barbie Consortium_ is a prequel, they're not kidding. They lifted a scene wholesale.

I am enjoying these much more as a book than as short stories spread throughout a ton of collections.