How the Steel Was Tempered

[lokuro]

This happend during Christmas (which we don't celebrate) and the New Year's Eve (which we celebrate as if it was the Christmas, with lots of food, presents and of cause a huge Tannenbaum (fir tree). At least we don't celebrate Yom Kippour, otherwise I'd be too confusing even for my crazy family

Comments

[uozaki]

Of all the things to notice here - you have a keyboard shortcut for mu, and I am really jealous of that!

And having read both the book's and the author's wikipedia articles, *wow.* That's impressive writing tenacity.

[lokuro]

Next year I can send you a keyborad? :3 (seriously, I wasn't aware that that's not the standard? o.O" I use µ so often at work - most of our concentrations are in this exact range :D)

Exactly my thought! Also, as he starts the book with describing the boy's childhood and the lack of books and/or education, I was a bit put off - because how the hell did he manage to write his biography if he was almost an analphabet? But then his determination strikes and he starts learning at the speed of light @_@
(I feel very small in comparison ._.)

[uozaki]

It's probably a Regional Keyboard Thing - we silly americans don't have a lot of daily use for µ? But as I just discovered, my laptop has a really easy shortcut for it! Problem solved!

Suspension of disbelief gone very wrong at the beginning, it sounds like. (Same...)