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Nick is on page 62 of 480 of The New York Nobody Knows

Sun, 02 Mar 2025 20:59:01 -0800

Nick is on page 1117 of 1246 of The Power Broker

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Nick is on page 1055 of 1246 of The Power Broker

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Nick is on page 1026 of 1246 of The Power Broker

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Nick is on page 968 of 1246 of The Power Broker

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Nick is on page 941 of 1246 of The Power Broker

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Nick is on page 722 of 1246 of The Power Broker

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Nick is 78% done with The Stand

Fri, 30 Aug 2024 06:38:36 -0700

Nick is 68% done with The Stand

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Nick is on page 636 of 1246 of The Power Broker

Sat, 24 Aug 2024 18:23:19 -0700

Nick is 51% done with The Stand

Tue, 20 Aug 2024 14:01:52 -0700

As an atheistic technocrat, there's something deeply weird about a book that's cheerfully anti-technology and eager to embrace the charismatic leadership of an extremist religious figure who wants all her followers to pack up and move to a town in the mountains to prepare for their final battle against the forces of darkness. Ugh. This reads so much more poorly than it did when I was 17.

Nick is on page 606 of 1246 of The Power Broker

Sun, 18 Aug 2024 12:05:29 -0700

Nick is on page 545 of 1246 of The Power Broker

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Nick is on page 526 of 1246 of The Power Broker

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Nick is on page 495 of 1246 of The Power Broker

Wed, 05 Jun 2024 19:38:35 -0700

Nick is on page 395 of 582 of The Odyssey

Wed, 05 Jun 2024 19:38:24 -0700

Every interesting thing you think of when you think of 'The Odyssey'-- the blinding of the cyclops, the escape from Circe, Charybdis and Scylla--happens in one chapter, halfway through the book, in a flashback. Most of the rest of it is Odysseus's son whining about the guys trying to marry his mom and take all his dad's stuff.

Nick is on page 395 of 582 of The Odyssey

Wed, 05 Jun 2024 19:28:50 -0700

Nick is on page 469 of 1246 of The Power Broker

Mon, 27 May 2024 12:53:13 -0700

Nick is on page 226 of 582 of The Odyssey

Thu, 23 May 2024 20:42:48 -0700

By my reckoning it's not until the tenth book of this translation that we actually start to hear, in flashback, the story most people traditionally associate with "The Odyssey."

Nick is on page 427 of 1246 of The Power Broker

Thu, 23 May 2024 20:41:43 -0700

It's amazing how chapter to chapter in this book you can go from thinking that Robert Moses was a visionary hero who single-handedly built NYC as we know it to thinking he's the pettiest, nastiest little tyrant ever to wield power and who ought to have been strangled in his youth.

Nick is on page 427 of 1246 of The Power Broker

Thu, 23 May 2024 20:40:31 -0700

Nick is on page 339 of 1246 of The Power Broker

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Nick is on page 298 of 1246 of The Power Broker

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Nick is on page 227 of 1246 of The Power Broker

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Nick is on page 206 of 1246 of The Power Broker

Sun, 03 Mar 2024 11:54:48 -0800

Nick is starting Reprieve

Mon, 30 Jan 2023 10:16:11 -0800

Nick is on page 296 of 825 of The Planetary Omnibus

Thu, 10 Mar 2022 07:29:09 -0800

Nick is 92% done with Executive Orders

Mon, 07 Mar 2022 10:53:59 -0800

Tom Clancy has a go-to move where the bad guys are terribly bad and dangerous, but never so bad or dangerous that they do any real damage. The nuclear bomb at the Super Bowl fizzles; the Ebola biological attack isn't as contagious as they expected; the 'Army of God' invading our buddies in the Middle East can be whooped by a small group of gung-ho good ol' boys. It's all very Fox News and fascist right out of Eco.

Nick is on page 178 of 825 of The Planetary Omnibus

Mon, 28 Feb 2022 09:44:05 -0800

Nick is 39% done with Executive Orders

Sat, 26 Feb 2022 12:34:57 -0800

Jack Ryan calls for 'regular' people to enter government service, because the founding fathers never meant for a permanent class of government employees to run things.

A quick look at the Ryan-verse wiki indicates that apart from four years as a stock broker Ryan has himself been a government employee for his entire adult life.

I'm thinking Jack might not be that bright, y'all.