What are you reading now?
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Quite an interesting book. The guy is an equal opportunity cynic on who is at fault; slams pretty much every administration in the 2000's. Soldiers get addicted to drugs (both prescribed and illegal) and alcohol to keep them energized. Then they need other drugs to help numb the pain from the things they see and do.
Focusing on Fort Bragg, N.C., home to Delta Force and other elite military units, Harp uncovers a culture steeped in drug trafficking, weapons theft, and cover-ups. Drawing on extensive interviews and documentation, Harp alleges that soldiers returning to Fort Bragg from Afghanistan smuggled opioids and other narcotics into the U.S., sometimes in collaboration with Mexican cartels, and engaged in reckless, often violent behavior on the base—much of it fueled by substance abuse—that the military swept under the rug. A detailed history of the Army's entanglement with Afghanistan's opium trade and harrowing accounts of drug-fueled parties at Fort Bragg full of racist behavior frame Harp's discovery of a shocking number of deaths on the base: 109 from 2020 to 2021 alone, many of them unexplained. Harp's investigative rigor and visceral storytelling make this a disturbing must-read for anyone seeking to understand the full cost of America's overseas conflicts.
It was a good companion to the book I read about the drug trade in the Gold Triangle in Myanmar.
https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/topic/95/what-are-you-reading-now/777?_=1774917935468
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Interesting. How do you like it so far?
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I’m still very early in the book . The year 9 CE. Lots of blood and gore in the coming 150 years. But he is an easy read. It’s written as an interesting narrative. Not dry history.
I first read his book on the naval battle of actium. ( Octavian vs Marc Antony and cleopatra. ) Which was fascinating.
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Just finished listening to this.
I really enjoyed it. Hearing about how he grew up poor in the projects and made it to Harvard than HLS and then how he stumbled into Goldman through the back door was interesting. And his inside take on the great financial crisis was interesting and brought back a lot of my own memories.
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My favorite author after the creator of Middle Earth but having a hard time getting into it with all my spare time filled with denouncing Trump. I had an interesting discussion with copilot about Kings earliest works, which I thought were his masterpieces but it ran well over 100 words so I will pass on sharing. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha suffice to say the batting order goes like this for me, the shining the stand Salems lot and It
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Saw a couple of videos which recommended the best/easiest translations of the Iliad and The Odyssey.
Gonna dive into that.
The podcast I recommended is great for background for explaining all the gods and their motivations.
Saw a couple of videos which recommended the best/easiest translations of the Iliad and The Odyssey.
Gonna dive into that.
The podcast I recommended is great for background for explaining all the gods and their motivations.
Let me save you the trouble take it down to the lowest common denominator. Those gods have the same motivations of most humans, pride and greed.
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Kings's 11/23/63 sci fi about the kennedy assassination is pretty cool
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