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Yeah, I watched it on A&E without all the f-bombs every five minutes...Oh you should read The Gold Coast. Actually, just read them all.But The Gold Coast is about a guy who gets a mobster as a new neighbor. You liked The Sopranos, right? The book is hilarious and suspenseful all at once.
....broken down in numbers and percentages is even more horrifying than the total taken from the world-because that number was so high as to be incomprehensible....others may try to lay claim to being the ultimate Monster-but Hitler wins hands down......I'm glad you read Schindler's Ark (original UK title).
Think of that story as a snippet from a larger story:
One of my friends speaks the truth better than I can:
And another quote from a visitor to the town of Auschwitz.That is what the Nazis did; they didn’t just murder people, they murdered so many that they wiped out the gene pool of our people. The gene pool that survived is based mainly on those of us with grandparents who had the foresight to leave decades before.
7,000 Jews lived there, in 1939 (estimated figure)
28 returned in 1945 (estimated figure)
The people of Oświęcim(Auschwitz) do a fantastic job of preserving the Jewish heritage and history of their town, efforts that are echoed throughout Poland. Nazism is dead, and the Jews are not. But I was told by our guide that ‘there is no Jew in Oświęcim today’.
It is difficult when standing in Oświęcim, surrounded by the remains of such a brutal, incomprehensible crime as the Holocaust, to shrug off the sense that on some level, Hitler won.
For how can life go on?
The truth of the matter is, it cannot. Not in the same way.
Gone are the shtiebels (prayer rooms), the homes, the businesses, and the people. The Jews of Oświęcim deafen the visitor with their silence. Their absence echoes in the synagogue, through the shattered cemetery, along the street of vanished Jewish buildings that overlooks the Sola River.
How many other places in Poland, in Europe, are irrecoverably diminished by the murder of so many of their citizens?
In Oświęcim, the Final Solution feels very final.
I know that these words sound strange to most Americans who aren't Jewish.
And Jewish-Americans are interested in Europe from a nostalgic and historical point of view.
But in the UK, if you're over 55 (like me), and you choose to live as a Jew (like me), you miss the children that didn't grow up.
The writers who never had a chance to be known or unknown.
The musicians who never had a chance to make music, for as long as they wanted.
The artists who never had a chance to continue painting or give it up and do something else.
I miss them all.
And I imagine what Europe might have been
And now will never be.
Your first Jack Reacher?
Hope you enjoy it.
I could say that I hope you luuurve it, but then you'll have to read all of them.
And kiss goodbye to sleep and food.
Sleep and food are great, but give me the right book first. . .
I love them zombies, especially when they're on fire.Oh yeah, Joe McKinney zombie novels - they always make a bad day better and a good day great.
Um. I have a serious zombie habit...
I have a British Jewish friend who decided to have her family's German citizenship restored, post Brexit. She thereby gets to retain her European passport and affirms her family's existence. Her parents were fortunate enough to have fled to England, but they were the only family members to get out of Germany. She had to provide whatever documentation she could find (not easy), and found that the German government was sympathetic and easy to work with, allowing great leeway as far as what documents she could find.I'm glad you read Schindler's Ark (original UK title).
Think of that story as a snippet from a larger story:
One of my friends speaks the truth better than I can:
And another quote from a visitor to the town of Auschwitz.That is what the Nazis did; they didn’t just murder people, they murdered so many that they wiped out the gene pool of our people. The gene pool that survived is based mainly on those of us with grandparents who had the foresight to leave decades before.
7,000 Jews lived there, in 1939 (estimated figure)
28 returned in 1945 (estimated figure)
The people of Oświęcim(Auschwitz) do a fantastic job of preserving the Jewish heritage and history of their town, efforts that are echoed throughout Poland. Nazism is dead, and the Jews are not. But I was told by our guide that ‘there is no Jew in Oświęcim today’.
It is difficult when standing in Oświęcim, surrounded by the remains of such a brutal, incomprehensible crime as the Holocaust, to shrug off the sense that on some level, Hitler won.
For how can life go on?
The truth of the matter is, it cannot. Not in the same way.
Gone are the shtiebels (prayer rooms), the homes, the businesses, and the people. The Jews of Oświęcim deafen the visitor with their silence. Their absence echoes in the synagogue, through the shattered cemetery, along the street of vanished Jewish buildings that overlooks the Sola River.
How many other places in Poland, in Europe, are irrecoverably diminished by the murder of so many of their citizens?
In Oświęcim, the Final Solution feels very final.
I know that these words sound strange to most Americans who aren't Jewish.
And Jewish-Americans are interested in Europe from a nostalgic and historical point of view.
But in the UK, if you're over 55 (like me), and you choose to live as a Jew (like me), you miss the children that didn't grow up.
The writers who never had a chance to be known or unknown.
The musicians who never had a chance to make music, for as long as they wanted.
The artists who never had a chance to continue painting or give it up and do something else.
I miss them all.
And I imagine what Europe might have been
And now will never be.
Personal opinion-- continue the journey. The books become one journey. Enjoy the continuous adventures. Those of us, who read as published, had to wait for the next part. You have the beam before you-- follow the beam...............
). The special edition version is the version he submitted before the publisher made him change a few things.
Agree with Spidey. Continue the journey. They come together so beautifully. The other books aren't going anywhere.
You have your work cut out for you.Enjoy.
