This review contains big spoilers - you have been warned.

[Major Spoiler for this book and The Colour of Law (click to open)]

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We'll finish the Fifty Book Challenge for this year a bit short of our goal, at Book Review No. 31.  Michael McCarthy's Ashes Under Water: The SS Eastland and the Shipwreck that Shook America looks at some of the personalities involved in Eastland's capsize and the subsequent investigation.  Mr McCarthy (of Grand Haven, not to be confused with an ( Read more... )

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Yes, that might be true of any government, but that was the special task of counsel for the prosecution at the Nuremberg war crimes trials, as documented by Joseph Persico in Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial.  It will make for a brief Book Review No. 4, as most of the history related therein is relatively well known.  The prosecution had to make the case ( Read more... )

Book 33: The Girl who played with fire by Stieg Larsson - 569 pages

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Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. Two Millennium journalists about to expose the truth about sex trafficking in Sweden are murdered, and Salander's prints are on the weapon. Her history of unpredictable and vengeful behaviour makes her an ( Read more... )

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Helen Smith's recent Men on Strike: Why Men Are Boycotting Marriage, Fatherhood, and the American Dream -- and Why It Matters would seem to be written with people like me in mind.  I don't know whether I'm on strike or avoiding the toxic environment of contemporary "relationships" or have discovered by experience that I'm too redneck for the ( Read more... )