Mowque Reads TL-191
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Esopo
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How can anyone like yeager? hes so so so horrible, stealing women from people and betrayng his specie and so on.
mowque
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The ultimate Mary Sue, but no.
Morrel comes up in this latest chapter though (which I am busily writing).
No,.
He hasn't been mentioned yet. In the book or our discussions.
Anywho, how about that guy who had his arm and half his package blown off? Maybe the one armed man from the south? The Jewish man who Confederates met in the West and asked how business was doing while making money grubbing handsigns?
Scipio is the obvious choice for anyone. Maybe it is a bit more outlandish... Custer, perhaps.
mowque
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Chapter Two- War Made New
This chapter focuses a lot on how the war is different, more modern and somehow even more brutal then the last one. It is a useful angle to take since this concept was discussed pretty heavily in OTLs WW1. While a lot of the stuff won’t come till later, gas, tanks and the like, we’ll get a taste in the very opening part.
I’ve never actually read the Nellie storyline before. I have always skipped over those entries. So here, unlike pretty much the rest of the series, I am reading with new eyes. Nellie lives in DC and runs a coffee shop with her young daughter, Edna. Bad place to be since war has started and DC is being shelled like no tomorrow.
As Turtledove tries to show, there is a special horror in being shelled from a distance. It is one thing to be shot by a solider across the way, but to be killed by a gun you never hear, let alone see, is a whole different and much more unnerving experience. And as Harry says, artillery makes an awful butcher. So Nellie is stuck in a city being shelled, and by the end of the segment, attacked by Confederate infantry. I have no idea where this story-line is going, but I’m guessing occupation.
This chapter focuses a lot on how the war is different, more modern and somehow even more brutal then the last one. It is a useful angle to take since this concept was discussed pretty heavily in OTLs WW1. While a lot of the stuff won’t come till later, gas, tanks and the like, we’ll get a taste in the very opening part.
I’ve never actually read the Nellie storyline before. I have always skipped over those entries. So here, unlike pretty much the rest of the series, I am reading with new eyes. Nellie lives in DC and runs a coffee shop with her young daughter, Edna. Bad place to be since war has started and DC is being shelled like no tomorrow.
As Turtledove tries to show, there is a special horror in being shelled from a distance. It is one thing to be shot by a solider across the way, but to be killed by a gun you never hear, let alone see, is a whole different and much more unnerving experience. And as Harry says, artillery makes an awful butcher. So Nellie is stuck in a city being shelled, and by the end of the segment, attacked by Confederate infantry. I have no idea where this story-line is going, but I’m guessing occupation.
I can't wait till you get to the bis about Custer and his almost hilariously out of date mode of thinking. I'd say it was hilarious but since he's basically a butcher...
My bad it's been a while since I read them in fact most of my books have been sitting in storage for the last 5 years. As I said in an earlierMorrel is the tank guy!
or am I mis-remembering?
post I'm gonna go dig em up.
Just picture him as Duck Dodgers and Dowling as his Eager Young Space Cadet.
Now I'm going to be stuck with that image whenever I get to rereading the series! thanks.