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Boy the 80s were stupid.

Things be getting cray cray!

"What the hell do you want, man?" Atty snapped, "Your daddy, Tomas Larkin, or a potato-faced Orange Grand Master for a father? If we acted like them, we'd become like them. Is that what you want? We're Irish, messed up, superstitious, and unorganizable...but, by God, you don't see any poets coming out of Ulster."

"Oliver Cromwell MacIvor, who had no true program of his own other than that of a vulture feeding on a diseased carcass, outdid them all in a battle to keep the working class divided."
How relatable...

"Within their relationship they had found some carnal desperation but never happiness." Been there, done that.

Just got a NPR push notification saying, "The Sackler family [...] is now a step closer to winning immunity from future opioid lawsuits."

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...F**k.

Well f**k.

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At this point, I just want Walter and Queenie to end up ok. Everyone else is driving me nuts!!

Oh. So that is what is going on 🧐

When is the "beautiful and valiant Protestant girl" promised to us in the book jacket description going to show up?? Also just realized she wasn't given a name, how 1977 publication of this print 😒 At least Caroline gets a mention by name (as she should).

At this point, I feel like Powers is just showing off how much he has learned about trees...

"Let me assure you just as earnestly that, once he gets his teeth into power, you're going to find him dangerous. He'll have the mob in his pocket and there will be nothing you we can do about it. You go along with him on now because you think it's for the good of Ulster. Frankly, I think you're flirting with the Devil." -Roger Hubble, sounding spookily relevant to today...

So glad I waited to listen to this after the election......

Because why not continue to read about power trying to crush the truth? Clearly my thing in the year 2019.

Just finished it and going to listen to it again right away.

I will never tire of hearing about how inept this "super brilliant woman" is at Silicon Valley.

Can't wait to read this book about how pretty blonde lady with big blue eyes conned a bunch of stupid men.

This book is such a slow burn and yet I am totally hooked?? This usually doesn't happen!