Dispatches from District 48
Archive for the ‘Books’ Category.
We are big Harry Potter fans in our house. The world has been warned that another major character will buy it in the next book Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (similar to Sirius Black's death in the last book). Trust the Brits to have a betting line on it:
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I just finished reading these three books, one after the other:
In basic outline, each book has exactly the same plot, about a man joining the army in some future war. Each have many of the classic war-story elements, including the tough over-the-top drill Sargent in basic training.
At the same time, all three are totally different, in different universes with different physics and different politics and enemies. And, perhaps most importantly, each with a different outlook on war and its necessity. Each one is awesome individually but created an amazing accidental trilogy when read together.
