![]() ![]() Should we have been more involved, less involved, or not involved at all? I don’t know. I don’t have strong feelings either way regarding the Afghan war. But oddly, at least to me, the story manages to thread the needle between those two. I feel that it should have either been more tragic or more heartwarming. ![]() Knowing that means they could have ended the movie any way they chose. The movie is based on a patchwork of actual events that happened during the Afghanistan war, but it is not a direct biography of actual people. As soon as he said that I knew how the movie would end and I just waited for the heroic ending. ![]() The mercenary/security character Parker mentions sending in an Angel of Death. And so there wasn’t very much drama, at least for me.Īnd honestly, since the movie sort of spoiled itself I’ll say it here. I didn’t know how the movie would end, but I suspected how it would end. I feel like the characters who died weren’t fleshed out enough for me to really care that much. For those who haven’t seen it yet, I don’t want to spoil any of the details of the movie, but I’ll say that the story wasn’t as gripping as many war movies that I’ve seen before. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Through the last 150 years of American history - from the post-reconstruction South and the mythic stories of cowboys in the West, to the present-day controversy over NFL protests and the backlash against the rise of women in politics - Ijeoma Oluo exposes the devastating consequences of white male supremacy on women, people of color, and white men themselves. ![]() What happens to a country that tells generation after generation of white men that they deserve power? What happens when success is defined by status over women and people of color, instead of by actual accomplishments? From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, an "illuminating" ( New York Times Book Review) history of white male identity. ![]() ![]() ![]() By using our website and services, you agree to our use of cookies as described in our Cookie Policy. We and our partners use cookies to personalize your experience, to show you ads based on your interests, and for measurement and analytics purposes. Use the discount code "Planet" to receive one month off the first subscription. Transhumanism: A Grimoire of Alchemical Agendas Roswell and the Reich: The Nazi Connection Assistant Professor ofClassics Joseph Farrell, First Last : Giza Death Star Deployedbefore purchasing it in order to gage whether or not it would beworth my. A renowned researcher with an eye to assimilate a tremendous amount of background material, Farrell is able to condense the best scholastic research in publication and draw insightful new conclusions on complex and controversial subjects. His literary contribution is a veritable resume unto itself covering such fields as Nazi Germany, sacred literature, physics, finances, the Giza pyramids, and music theory. Farrell is a recognized scholar whose credentials include a PhD in philosophy from the University of Oxford. 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So they walked on, further and further into the silence and the darkness. Moomins cannot stand the cold at all, so the house would have to be ready by October at the latest. They were out searching for a snug, warm place where they could build a house to crawl into when winter came. Glow-worms, said Moominmamma, but they had no time to stop and take a closer look at them. Here and there giant flowers grew, glowing with a peculiar light like flickering lamps, and furthest in among the shadows moved tiny dots of cold green. It was completely quiet, and so dim between the trees that it was as though twilight had already fallen. ![]() It must have been late in the afternoon one day at the end of August when Moomintroll and his mother arrived at the deepest part of the great forest. ![]() ![]() ![]() Though if you do a little research I personally think you will enjoy it a lot more. I don't think you have too do a lot of research to enjoy the story, for example if you don't know what a "Struggle Session" is (I didnt), the story gives you enough information to infer what it is. I personally did not know much about the cultural revolution, youth red guard, or the period known as the Great Leap Forward, and other things that occurred in China during that time but this book made me want to find out. While reading, I had to do a lot of searching on Wikipedia as large portions of the story occurs during the 1960 - 1980's. I will say that if I wasn't told it was translated, I would have assumed it was originally written in English by someone with a Mandarin background. I am 1/2 chinese, growing up up in America but my family spoke Hakka do I can't really say how well the translation is done. ![]() ![]() This book was apparently translated from Mandarin to English. It takes many strange science related events and use many characters smaller stories to relate these events, which in the end add up to something big and sinister going on. ![]() It's reminds me of the book "Spin" by Robert Wilson. It's very difficult to describe this book. They create a computer using a 30 million man Army ![]() ![]() ![]() And yet this is exactly what the titular roadkill is. I bet the first thing popping into your head when reading that title is NOT "alien". Plus, their own spaceship.Īfter all, if you’re going to rescue the world, the least you can get out of it is your own spaceship. All Jack and his best friends, Natalie and Patrick, have to defeat an alien threat is their wits, a lot of coffee, and a rather snippy AI named Sheldon. Which is why Jack suddenly finds himself the planet’s best hope to unravel a conspiracy of galactic proportions that could spell the end of the human race. And, it turns out, something not of this Earth.įate can play funny tricks. Something big.something furry.something invisible. Then one day, out on a delivery, his truck hits.something. After being booted out of MIT, he’s back in his Ohio hometown, working for the family business, facing a life of mediocrity. ![]() ![]() Jack Kernigan is having a bad day.a bad year.a bad life. Taylor, author of the Audible and New York Times best-selling Bobiverse series. Three 20-somethings are all that stands between an otherworldly threat and the survival of Earth in the latest thrill ride by Dennis E. ![]() ![]() ![]() But when he receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, he is drawn into a quest to find her. ![]() ![]() To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities are now allowed to relocate children of dissidents, especially those of Asian origin, and libraries have been forced to remove books seen as unpatriotic-including the work of Bird’s mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet who left the family when he was nine years old.īird has grown up disavowing his mother and her poems he doesn’t know her work or what happened to her, and he knows he shouldn’t wonder. For a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve “American culture” in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. ![]() Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. From the number one bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, a deeply suspenseful and heartrending novel about the unbreakable love between a mother and child in a society consumed by fear ![]() |