The Da Vinci Code
I was given this book for Christmas, and have just finished reading it.
Well it passed the time but I really could have been doing something more constructive.
It lost me on page 19 when the albinos pistol went click on an empty chamber and he had to insert a fresh clip.
Why you ask, BECAUSE IT'S WRONG! the mechanism of a self loading pistol {they require a clip} will stay open after the last shot has been fired, it lets you know when it is empty, only after you have released the slide can you let the hammer fall on the empty chamber.
That and the sequence of numbers, as one who suffers from numerical dyslexia I am well aware that numbers can contain great power but since I cannot divide or multiply and I have trouble with addition and subtraction as well, I try to avoid anything other than very basic numerecy even then I stuff that up. Thanks NSW Education System. Yes I have taught myself something of velocity and trajectory and wind compensation but it is more instinctive than theoretical I know what to do and I know the result but I cannot show you on paper with numbers like I believe most other people can.
The best read that I have had lately was U700 by James Follett I liked the way the characters from history interacted. I admire Otto Kretschmer the tonnage king.
Well it passed the time but I really could have been doing something more constructive.
It lost me on page 19 when the albinos pistol went click on an empty chamber and he had to insert a fresh clip.
Why you ask, BECAUSE IT'S WRONG! the mechanism of a self loading pistol {they require a clip} will stay open after the last shot has been fired, it lets you know when it is empty, only after you have released the slide can you let the hammer fall on the empty chamber.
That and the sequence of numbers, as one who suffers from numerical dyslexia I am well aware that numbers can contain great power but since I cannot divide or multiply and I have trouble with addition and subtraction as well, I try to avoid anything other than very basic numerecy even then I stuff that up. Thanks NSW Education System. Yes I have taught myself something of velocity and trajectory and wind compensation but it is more instinctive than theoretical I know what to do and I know the result but I cannot show you on paper with numbers like I believe most other people can.
The best read that I have had lately was U700 by James Follett I liked the way the characters from history interacted. I admire Otto Kretschmer the tonnage king.
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