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Bliss.

Put this down, for a while, as is pretty typical, but I'm cranking through it now. Good stuff.

The Man In The High Castle

Missile and nuke tech has always fascinated me, and consumed almost an entire year of college. So far this is gripping, and even the familiar recap of the Manhattan Project stands out by including uncommented-upon violations of safety protocols and dangerous improvisation, which helps underscore just how long safety systems have been subverted, by accident or on purpose.

Omg omg omg. This book is wonderful. College math about crosslinks, slip angle, grip, wear, contact patch...

Wow. What a brutal little book.

When it's hot and muggy, or things are going well, a Wallander story is always a good contrast.

This is awesome. But it's proving to be a slog.

The desert makes you read weird things.

I was already having a hard time reading this, and not finishing the other Steve Matchett Formula 1 book I have, or the Shackelton account I just started. And then Webster goes and reviews it.

Conventional alterna-future doomsday machine tale, with some Fail Safe, Strangelove and bodice-ripping ("she felt something deep within stir and move") sprinkled in, told with a weird Anglo lilt. Quick, effortless read.

Hmm.. Not as gripping as I thought it'd be

Funny/encouraging to think that David Donohue once didn't know what he was doing.

Should be finishing any number of other books, but my dad just sent this to me, so here we go....

Lots of pix, and descriptions of aero/downforce theory. 2010's double-diffuser finally makes sense.....

Awesome. The continued stories about is 400hp Volvo wagon are tremendous.

Still terribly-written, still utterly fascinating. Somehow I've waited a whole week to see Senna's biopic. I'm trying to decide if the following is true: "There aren't many sports that lend themselves to psychodrama like motor racing and tennis."

The story of Ayrton Senna (and Alain Prost) deserves a much better book than this. British F1 journo shows typical English disdain for American facts: (Salt Lake City, Idaho; Michael [rather than his father Mario] Andretti's F1 driver's world championship for Lotus in 1978). The interviews are impressive: Prost, Bernie Ecclestone, Niki Lauda, Martin Brundle; but it reels like it should be better.