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What have you finished reading?

Exit Wounds by Rutu Modan (Author), Noah Stollman (Translator) - Another good not great. Its... its ending is very ambiguous. You could play the ending out like a rom com, or you could play the ending out as it would go in real life. But why have an ambiguous ending? I feel like doing that is just a cowards way out. Its like saying "i dont want to finish this book, you write the rest!"

What are you currently reading?

Wisconsin Death Trip by Michael Lesy (Author), Charles Van Schaik (Photographer), Warren Susman (Preface) - Basically a lot of news paper snippets from the late 1890s about death in rural wisconsin. Its pretty brutal, and occasionally hilarious.

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Fuuuuck Wisconsin Death Trip is amazing! I'm pretty sure I still have my copy somewhere.

That second one sounds fun/interesting. I'm a big fan of like, annals.

STATIC-X! (Wasn't Wisconsin Death Trip one of their album names? LOL - that's where I first heard the phrase).

That said - there was a short article in a Door County magazine about the Peshtigo fire and how the fire had some spread to Door County and it was so bad that one of the guys who couldn't escape (I'm not sure if he was on fire or not) basically bashed his head on a stump to try and knock himself out/die before he suffered the process of burning alive.

Sixty Williamsonville residents lost their lives in the Peshtigo Fire. Tales of desperate efforts to survive were true for all 77 souls affected. Seven men had sought refuge in a well to escape the inferno, where five of the men survived. The speed of the fire consumed several men who attempted to outrun the blazing firestorm. Some residents used wet blankets to cover themselves from the flames. Most did not survive. In a potato patch, 35 individuals perished, huddled together hoping the flames would pass by the cleared land. Two men, suffering from the intense agony of the fires, resorted to ending their own lives by beating their heads upon a stump.

Found the article! Here's the quote:

"Sixty Williamsonville residents lost their lives in the Peshtigo Fire. Tales of desperate efforts to survive were true for all 77 souls affected. Seven men had sought refuge in a well to escape the inferno, where five of the men survived. The speed of the fire consumed several men who attempted to outrun the blazing firestorm. Some residents used wet blankets to cover themselves from the flames. Most did not survive. In a potato patch, 35 individuals perished, huddled together hoping the flames would pass by the cleared land. Two men, suffering from the intense agony of the fires, resorted to ending their own lives by beating their heads upon a stump."

There's even a map!