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Thank you! Again beyond a great book - hope to give a 5 Star review soon! It holds the unforgiving, persistent impact of Ian McGuire's 'The North Water,' and has that Alma Katsu touch to bring it over the edge into being unforgettable. Beyond incredible!
Thank you for the kind words, and the recommendation. Will check out 'The North Water'
ALma, My wife grew up in Communist East Germany where ratting out your neighbor for some minor infraction of the group think was common. It was also probably the case in the other Iron Curtain countries. Freedom must be constantly protected.
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Excellent question and a terrifyingly true answer.
Yikes! I don't know if I needed to be reading this at this moment (11/11/20.) Maybe as a warning?
"One thing I learned--not necessarily from writing the book but from my previous life as an analyst for the government, studying mass atrocities and genocides--is the fragility of civil society. It is frightening what people are capable of, sometimes at the slightest provocation. How easily some people can be frightened into acting against their own best interest, let alone the interest of their neighbors."
If anyone has watched 1883 this movie also explores selfish acts of food hoarding, as well as endangerment of the whole wagon train by not working together to protect the whole. Both instances ended in tragic consequences for families but for the whole as well as very few families survived to get to their final destination.
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Thank you! Again beyond a great book - hope to give a 5 Star review soon! It holds the unforgiving, persistent impact of Ian McGuire's 'The North Water,' and has that Alma Katsu touch to bring it over the edge into being unforgettable. Beyond incredible!
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Thank you for the kind words, and the recommendation. Will check out 'The North Water'
ALma, My wife grew up in Communist East Germany where ratting out your neighbor for some minor infraction of the group think was common. It was also probably the case in the other Iron Curtain countries. Freedom must be constantly protected..
Excellent question and a terrifyingly true answer.
Yikes! I don't know if I needed to be reading this at this moment (11/11/20.) Maybe as a warning? "One thing I learned--not necessarily from writing the book but from my previous life as an analyst for the government, studying mass atrocities and genocides--is the fragility of civil society. It is frightening what people are capable of, sometimes at the slightest provocation. How easily some people can be frightened into acting against their own best interest, let alone the interest of their neighbors."
If anyone has watched 1883 this movie also explores selfish acts of food hoarding, as well as endangerment of the whole wagon train by not working together to protect the whole. Both instances ended in tragic consequences for families but for the whole as well as very few families survived to get to their final destination.
