Oh, OK.
So, with the name of the ship mentioned twice in the prolog, once at the very beginning and once in a way that doesn’t make much sense means that the prolog is cronologically before the rest of the book.
OK. Didn’t catch that at first.

Anyway, that doesn’t mean that i won’t stop reading the book thru after all.
#OspalReads #LeviathanWakes #Corey

Herman #Wouk: »It [the Japanese fleet] looked just like the Pacific Fleet on [… an] exercise [… A]nd to dive-bomb them seemed like murder.«
Kurt #Tucholsky: Yeah, well. Y’all know how i think on that point.

#OspalReads #WarAndRemembrance

The crossover chapter from the hell than is real history.

I’m reading those two books in parallel, and now hav come to #Wouk’s chapter where #Eichmann comes to Italy to make them deport some Jews so they can be murdered in the Reich.

This is the #PlotArmor of the by-now three Jastrows wearing thin.

#OspalReads #OspalhLiest #WarAndRemembrance #EichmanVorJerusalem #Stangneth

» Did he (the Gestapo-man Natalie had seen half a continent away) recognize you?”
“He gave me quite a stare.”
“I wouldn’t worry about it. Those men stare for a living.”«

Oh, if staring was all they did for a living.

I hav red the book once before, years ago. I can’t remember which of the Jews in the book survive, if any. Probably one of these two? She just married a US military man.

#ospalReads #WindsOfWar #Wouk