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What a sad tale . . . Timothy Egan outlines what led to the great dust storms on the high plains in the 1930's. Many times I thought of a verse my grandfather passed down from his father who had lived in Nebraska during those times: "Nebraska land, Nebraska land 'Tis on thy barren soil we stand. It's not as though we wish to stay - We are too poor to move away." The author certainly brought those words to a stark reality in my mind. And I don't believe Nebraska had it quite as hard as the "no man's land" in Oklahoma and the panhandle of Texas that the author focused on. At times I felt like screaming to the families in struggling to survive in the area: "Just run for your lives!" At other times I just wanted to cry, and as people from little babies to the elderly died of "dust pnemonia", I did just that. The author truly made the story come alive. This is a stark, emotional and (as far as I can tell) accurate and well-researched history of those dark and awful times that some men brought on themselves, and others innocently found themselves stuck in. A mystery remains in my mind about how anyone could feel affection for the area after all they had been through, but some did.

Interesting read but didn't get as much into looking at business leaders and psychopathy as I thought. A bit disjointed in the writing and jumped around a lot...kept waiting for it to get to the heart of the matter. Interesting discussion at the end on dignosing children and the rise in mental illness among them.

http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/2278230.html[return][return]A very formulaic urban fantasy, with many elements shared with C.E. Murphy's Urban Shaman series, which did almost all of them earlier and better. The one partial exception is the sex, which starts off hot and heavy, but then rapidly becomes both tedious and unpleasant. A waste of time.