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This book is way, way smarter than it looks...

This book is worth reading for the Jerry Jones observations alone.

"I'm a good soldier, he tells himself, aren't I a good soldier? So what does it mean when a good soldier feels this bad?" If you have not read this book, half of your life is wasted. People should be reading this instead of All Quiet in school.

"Americans are incredibly polite as long as they get what they want"

I just love non-fiction history books where American Indians are completely erased from the ecosystems that they consciously created. It's like the high plains were completely unknown until white people show up.

Also, this reader can't pronounce "Llano Estacado" and it's really starting to piss me off.

This one is a little heavy on the melodrama. By a little heavy, I mean a lot heavy. It went from Gilmore Girls level romance angst to full court press One Tree Hill.

CALLED IT IN BOOK ONE. Ahem.

I'm tying here. But the lyrics are killing me.

Yeah...I don't know about this one, y'all. I can't condone this kind of abuse of punk rock.

I'm trying, y'all. But this dialog is CSI Miami level bad.

"Dad, why is Michael Landon punching the blacksmith?"

"Your life starts out as a wild open frontier that you explore until the forces of time or history or civilization or nature intervene, and then suddenly it's all gone. It all weathers and falls down and gets built over; everyone dies or moves away or becomes a grainy photography, and yes, at some point you just get fat and fall off a streetcar. Progress--it dumps you on your aging and gigantic ass!"

In Texas, we definitely did not cover the Eerie Canal. Making up for lost time.