Rocket Highway

Good evening. Or afternoon, or morning or whatever if you’re Cyrus or David living out in the lawless American West. Today I’d like to share with you the joy of Amazon customer reviews! Most of you have no doubt already had a run in with these funny, weird things, but I want to devote a little bit of time out of my day to discussing these.

I was browsing Amazon for some books and I came across the page for The Looming Tower by journalist Lawrence Wright. I’ve read the book, and I super-recommend it to anybody and everybody who wants to know anything about Al-Qaeda and 9/11 and all that fun stuff. It’s a compelling, well written and well sourced narrative following Osama bin Laden and Ayman Al-Zawahiri(Al Qaeda’s Numero Dos) in their quest to destroy McDonalds and freedom or whatever. It also won a Pulitzer Prize and is pretty much universally praised for being an even-handed account of the events that led up to 9/11 that goes deep into the backstories of key players such as Bin Laden and Al-Zawahiri. But wait, what’s this?

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