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finished reading Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson

Robert Kurson: Shadow Divers (Hardcover, 2004, Random House)

In the tradition of Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air and Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm …

Great read, provides a lot more detail than the various YouTube summary videos you can find. (The YTs are neat too -- to actually see the faces actually doing the thing, and videos from the sub.) I ended up largely skipping the chapters from the German perspective since I can only fit one set of people in my brain at a time. I'm familiar with similar material.

It's fascinating to read the emotions, thought processes of the various people as they determine to dedicate huge chunks of their lives to this singular obsession. I know divers like that. Seeing my friends reflected in this specific epic tale made for a great read.

Having dove my grandfather's WWII ship makes reading about other grave site scuba especially poignant for me. usshoustondive.com/divers/jay_hannah/

Robert Kurson: Shadow Divers (Hardcover, 2004, Random House)

In the tradition of Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air and Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm …

If Chatterton had retained any illusion about Vietnam, such folly vaporized with Mouse's killing. He traded his .45 pistol for an M-16 rifle. He had come to Vietnam looking for answers about America and about mankind, and suddenly those answers seemed obvious: America was wrong to be in Vietnam; men killed one another because they are animals. So he had his answers, big fucking deal.

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I'm insanely lucky my exposure to violence has been near zero.

James S.A. Corey: Persepolis Rising (AudiobookFormat, 2017, Recorded Books)

The seventh book in the NYT bestselling Expanse series, Persepolis Rising finds an old enemy …

"It doesn't matter that the trigger that dropped the plate was in one place, because it happened everywhere. Not a point location, but a nonlocalized location."

"Nonlocalized. Location," Drummer said, pressing her palms into her eye sockets. Annoyance and fear curled in her throat. So you're telling me you don't know shit floated at the back of her mouth.

Persepolis Rising by  (The Expanse, #7) (60%)

lol. ya. scientists. :)