Book #18, Tommy Gun
This one was interesting, but also took a while. I don't know anything about guns (no seriously, not anything), and the tommy gun is one of the only ones I recognize, so I thought this would be an informative read. And it was; the history of the tommy gun is more complicated than I thought. It was invented shortly after WWI, to prevent anything like the standoff in the trenches from happening again, but the inventor couldn't sell it because all the world government were convinced that the Great War was the war to end all wars, and they wouldn't need it. (Ha, ha.)
I think the hardest part to get through was near the end, where the author fixates on WWII. Of course, the tommy gun was a major part of WWII, but it's story after story and they get very similar and repetitive after a while. They were never lengthy stories you could get invested in...just a single page, "in this battle, all was lost, AND THEN" a guy with a tommy gun shoots up dem Nazis and saves the day. Just a one page blurb, over and over, for like 50 pages. So that's mostly what slowed me down on finishing this one!
Total book count: 18/50 - 36%
Total page count: 5678/15000 - 37.9%
Up next: I borrowed Hitler's Pope from Tim at work like two months ago, so that's definitely the next nonfiction I start. I read a few more stories in UFO so I'm getting close to the end on that. And then....Harry Potter? Maybe? At last?
I think the hardest part to get through was near the end, where the author fixates on WWII. Of course, the tommy gun was a major part of WWII, but it's story after story and they get very similar and repetitive after a while. They were never lengthy stories you could get invested in...just a single page, "in this battle, all was lost, AND THEN" a guy with a tommy gun shoots up dem Nazis and saves the day. Just a one page blurb, over and over, for like 50 pages. So that's mostly what slowed me down on finishing this one!
Total book count: 18/50 - 36%
Total page count: 5678/15000 - 37.9%
Up next: I borrowed Hitler's Pope from Tim at work like two months ago, so that's definitely the next nonfiction I start. I read a few more stories in UFO so I'm getting close to the end on that. And then....Harry Potter? Maybe? At last?