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The copying of European style armies and expanded navy with new ship yards is pretty much what happens during Meiji Restoration.

My god Lacy is an actual cave man

Jacob is very dense on when someone is fucking with him but likes him, I don’t think he believes anyone does.

Holy fuck, just sell the nobleman your mercury and then come back with more. What price is your freedom worth?

The curiosity of pre-20th century marriage

Were women of this era really as understanding of dalliances as Anna?

Interesting dialogue, not often you see this many speakers, but it is hard to track all the names.

Introducing interesting problems and exposition in part but implies a lot more.

Good writing for a clever trader who at first sounds like a moron. He has the numbers all at his fingertips and well sourced on all sorts of information

Wow, that’s quiet and opening chapter.

Malcolm Carlyle is an anti-tech oligarch scientist

The poor Morrey children

Video game lectures, love it

Such a good looking comic, the story can get lost at times but that’s the consequence of an epic scale story.

Suri plays out well! And makes sense, as gross as it may be it does pivot around one person.

Card good at micro-conflicts still. A little too much of games within games, but that’s what the book is for so fine! This last puzzle has a lot of good intrigue. Can’t remember the resolution.

The book really lacks having Achilles as a front and present, and not just “Beast”/monster lurking off screen.
Jaws this is not

Interesting they don’t reference Iran grand Ayatollah model

Alien earth borrowed a lot of this plot!!

Interesting that a lot of his or very close guesses about future war and geopolitics, but no drone warfare on earth even though Ender fought with drones

Something insightful: (Narcissists are) hungry to find something that really matters in life.” And they hate those who have

Why would the first thing Bean and Achilles share be a “love” of Petra?!
The fucking grew up on the same streets, in the same gang, and both had disabilities that made them outcasts!

Muslims and Jews work together but all Muslims inherently want to go away from democracy of they could. Yet the west elected dictator hegemon