Weekly "what are you reading" Thread #61

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The Iran-Iraq War by Pierre Razoux.

It's not well written. I don't necessarily trust it to be true all the time. It's incredibly boring because he's giving all the details of 8 years of people just taking turns kicking each other in the nuts. Pages of "the 53rd Basij battalion attacked the 19th Revolutionary Guard..." stuff. Unironically perfect for curing insomnia. I'm constantly having to flip back to the last page because I already forgot something I don't give a shit about. It's just stimulating enough that you can get your brain to try to understand it and your brain doesn't want to so you fall asleep, kind of like high school math class.

I have really learned a lot from it though. Mostly that I thought I hated the Iranian regime enough but I didn't. (I already hated Ba'athists enough.)

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