Tai-pan by James Clavell

The first third of Clavell’s second book in the Asian Saga is slow to get moving and full of characters and places and lingo and it’s all kind of hard to care, but he earned my attention with Shogun so I stuck with it and I’m really glad I did, because the second two thirds really use all that exposition and tell a fascinating tale.

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Both the sci-fi elements and the scientist characters are really fun and involving in this carl sagan book adaptation - but on the other hand the love interest is really annoying and the movie should’ve been 30 minutes shorter.

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dulevoz train videos youtube channel

dulevoz is a mesmerizing collection of lengthy high-def videos from trains traveling through Serbia and Montenegro, made with obvious care and love for the trains and the view.

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The Unaccountability Machine by Dan Davies

This nonfiction treatise on systems, communication and accountability is bold in its breadth, smoothly written and researched, laid out in a confusing and silly way, occasionally under-edited, but also fascinating, fun, and particularly impressive at the end.

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