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Book Chain, Week 15
Apr. 13th, 2026 02:49 pm#13: A book with a page count within 100 pages of the previous book
Second attempt: Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon. An account of the future history of mankind over the coming millennia, written in the 1930s and famous for its ambition and imaginative scope -- although not, of course, for the predictive accuracy of the opening chapters, which fail to foresee the Third Reich, the Chinese Communist Revolution, and the splitting of the atom, among other things.
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Third attempt: Wolf's Lair by James McGee. An ex-soldier turned smuggler is hired to join an expedition seeking the final resting place of a German U-boat that disappeared at the end of the War carrying a cargo of gold bullion and a dangerous macguffin.
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#14: A book with a higher average rating than the previous book
I didn't have anything particular in mind, so I decided to hit the local library and see what I came away with. What I came away with was Dead Wake, Erik Larson's account of the final voyage of the RMS Lusitania. I had only the vaguest memory of what the Lusitania died of; it turns out that this is, in part, another German U-boat story.
Second attempt: Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon. An account of the future history of mankind over the coming millennia, written in the 1930s and famous for its ambition and imaginative scope -- although not, of course, for the predictive accuracy of the opening chapters, which fail to foresee the Third Reich, the Chinese Communist Revolution, and the splitting of the atom, among other things.
( Read more... )
Third attempt: Wolf's Lair by James McGee. An ex-soldier turned smuggler is hired to join an expedition seeking the final resting place of a German U-boat that disappeared at the end of the War carrying a cargo of gold bullion and a dangerous macguffin.
( Read more... )
#14: A book with a higher average rating than the previous book
I didn't have anything particular in mind, so I decided to hit the local library and see what I came away with. What I came away with was Dead Wake, Erik Larson's account of the final voyage of the RMS Lusitania. I had only the vaguest memory of what the Lusitania died of; it turns out that this is, in part, another German U-boat story.
