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Oh, I don't take it personally. For one thing, I hadn't read it before I nominated it. (Something that is contrary to what I usually recommend and do, I admit.) For another, I've been in this club from the beginning, and I've noticed that book opinions and preferences vary WIDELY across the members. People approach each book from a different place, and while I might agree with someone's assessment on book A, we can equally disagree completely on book B. That's what makes for a discussion, after all.
One of the things I found interesting is that the engineers and scientists developing the atomic bomb used the Halifax explosion as a model to help them understand exactly how a truly massive and virtually instantaneous explosion behaves and affects the area where it happens. Now I'm not at all sure that's a recommendation, but it's certainly a comment on just how unprecedentedly powerful this explosion was.
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