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Published on 2004-04-22 by fsada

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania, published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the disaster On May 1, 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were anxious. Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone, and for months, its U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the Lusitania was one of the era's great transatlantic |Greyhounds| and her captain, William Thomas Turner, placed tremendous faith in the gentlemanly strictures of warfare that for a century had kept civilian ships safe from attack. He knew, moreover, that his ship--the fastest then in service--could outrun any threat. Germany, however, was determined to change the rules of the game, and...

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Don't you type of pine (secretly, in the marrow of your gut's happy druthers) for the good ol'times of Goodreads (known then as GodFearingGoodlyReading.com) when all opinions were evenly plainspoken, simply functional, unpretentious, and -- most importantly otherwise -- dull, dull, dull? Don't you kind of loathe when persons state'do not you believe in this way or sense that way'in an attempt to goad you equally psychologically and grammatically into agreeing with them? In what of ABBA: I really do, I really do, I do(, I actually do, I do). Well, since the interwebs is a earth where the past stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the present (and with fetish porn), we are able to revisit yesteryear in its inviolable presentness any time we wish. Or at the least till this amazing site eventually tanks. Contemplate (won't you?) Matt Nieberle's overview of Macbeth in its entirety. I've bound it with a heavy string and dragged it here for your perusal. (Please realize that several a sic are implied in the next reviews.) its actually complicated and ridiculous! why cant we be studying like Romeo and Juliet?!?! at least that book is great! There you've it. Refreshingly, not a review published in one of the witch's voices or alluding to Hillary and Statement Clinton or discussing the reviewer's first period. Merely a primal shout unleashed to the black wilderness of the cosmos.Yes, Mr. Nieberle is (probably) a teen, but I admire his ability to strongarm the temptation to be clever or ironic. (Don't you?) He speaks the native language of the idk generation by having an economy and a quality that renders his convictions much more emphatic. Here's MICHAEL's review of the exact same play. You could'know'MICHAEL; he is the'Problems Architect'only at Goodreads. (A problematic title itself in that it implies he designs problems... which might be the case, for many I know.) This book shouldn't be required reading... reading plays that you don't want to learn is awful. Reading a play kinda sucks to begin with, if it absolutely was supposed to be read, then it would have been a novel, not just a play. Together with that the teach had us students see the play aloud (on person for every character for a couple pages). None people had browse the play before. None people wanted to see it (I made the mistake of taking the'easy'english class for 6 years). The teacher picked students that appeared as if they weren't paying attention. All of this compounded to make me pretty much hate reading classics for something like 10 years (granted macbeth alone wasn't the problem). I also hate iambic pentameter. Pure activism there. STOP the mandatory reading of plays. It's wrong, morally and academically. Plus it can definitely fuck up your GPA. 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