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Jeremy Gimenes jeremy66xcb1d — "Last Train to Paradise" is popular history at its best. This is the story of an era that is no more--a time when one man with unlimited resources, and more importantly, unlimited vision could accomplish something wondrous. Henry M. Flager, who co-founded Standard Oil with John Rockefeller, left his active role in the company 15 years after its birth to pursue his new passion: building the modern state of Florida. At the heart of this book is Flager's drive to see the Key West Railroad completed before his death. The idea of running train tracks all the way to Key West had been around for a while, but had been dismissed by most people as wildly impractical. Flager was determined to see it through, buoyed during the many challenges the project faced by his unshakable belief that the completion of the rail line, coupled with the opening of the Panama Canal, would transform Key West into a major port. (That part of Flager's vision was to remain unfulfilled.) The engineering challenges proved to be huge, and the toll of lost lives was great. But Flager persevered. The line was completed in 1912, slightly more than a year before Flager's death at eighty-three. It stood for twenty-three years, until its swift obliteration in the Labor Day hurricane of 1935. Author Les Standiford brings the creation and destruction of this rail line to life in vivid, novelistic detail. At the end, the reader is left pondering a question: Was the expenditure of lives and treasure worth it? If we could put that query to Henry Flager today, I believe the answer would be yes.

Artur Barcik snts — Already jumped to the next book. Review to come later, after I'm done reading.

Pankhudi Mishra _antsks194046d — Unforgivably hilarious.

Holly Skinner holly4fashion — I really loved Birth Marked by Caragh O' Brien. Set in a futuristic world its a story about a young girl Gaia who is a midwife for the Enclave. It is her job to deliver the babies on her side of the wall and turn in the first 3 born every month so they can be adopted and have a better life with the people of the Enclave. She is curious about this but believes it to be right until her parents are arrested and she is forced to question everything she believed in. I found her character to be very strong yet still have room for more character growth as the series continues. She set out a goal to find her parents and doesn't stop until she does and she never once goes back on what she believes in. I also loved the fact that she has a birth mark on her face. This helped her develop her sense of self growing up and not depend on how she looked. Anyone that she got close to was because of who she is and not how she looked and this includes Capt. Leon Grey. Leon spent his life trying to live the by the Enclave, but after meeting Gaia he knows he can no longer do their bidding and does what he can to save her and even falls for her. There were times when I was frustrated with him but by the end he was such a stand up kind of guy that I truly hope they can find their way to each other. I give the book 4.5 stars only because its not perfect, but I rarely come across a book that is.

Le Costa leticiac933af8 — Another decent and easy read; great sense of place, good plot, etc, though this one will make you want to visit Spain.