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Anyone ever read Mark Twain's The Mysterious Stranger? I'm half way trough it.
Kinda thought provoking and disturbing. Twain was a character fer sure.

Rumor I heard was that as Twain got older, he became increasingly pessimistic, and that The Mysterious Stranger echoes this. Does that jive with your impression? I've been thinking about rereading Huckleberry Finn. It's one of the great American novels.

ZSpider

The Thin Red Line by James Jones (fictional account of WWII battle for Guadalcanal)
Justice at Nuremberg by Robert E. Conot (The first warcrimes trials of the Nazis at Nuremberg,very well done and much faster read than I expected)

He wrote most of it earlier. The last chapter was written then and it's way more radicle. The whole thing isn't that long but some of it is seriously twisted. Hard to believe its from the late 1800's. the story is set in the 1500's and people haven't changed much. The only big difference I see is the witch burning thing. I was tempted to post what he says about war,in light iof the discussion here,but you just have to read it for yourself.

The dog lovers on the board might like Marley & Me. Its about a yellow lab and his antics and the ups and downs of having dogs. I really enjoyed this book. The author is going to be at Joe-Beth in Lexington on Thurs (2/9). You have to get tickets, but they are free.

Christian wrote:The Thin Red Line by James Jones (fictional account of WWII battle for Guadalcanal)
Justice at Nuremberg by Robert E. Conot (The first warcrimes trials of the Nazis at Nuremberg,very well done and much faster read than I expected)

What happened at the war crimes trials? I'm pretty ignorant of the details. Himmler and Eichmann spring to mind. Did either of them go on trial? Were the war crimes predominantly about the Holocaust, or did it involve POWs and other civilian population? Did any of those tried get the death sentence? My guess would be that life imprisonment was the limit.

ZSpider

Eichmann escaped from Germany and was found by the Israelis and tried in Israel.
His case was not the subject of the book but I believe he was executed by the Israelis.
Himmler died(suicide) before the war ended and was not tried.
The first Nuremberg trial had 21 individual Defendants for a 4 count indictment which included Count 1(conspiracy),Count 2(warof aggression) Count 3(war crimes)and Count4(crimes against humanity)a handful of organiztions were also indicted (like the SS,Gestapo etc).
The 4 Counts covered concentration camps, genocide(against Jews and others) and POWS and much more.
The book is very accessible and worth reading.

11 defendants were hanged.

Shakey: The Life of Neil Young 8)

The Art of Intrusion by Kevin Mitnick. Great real life hacking stories (not Mitnick's personal accounts but others who have come forward on agreement that they remain anonymous).