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wasoxygen  ·  3290 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 14th Irregular Occasional Give a Quote from Your Recent Reading

This is the book with the Monkey House, right? That was a terrifying scene. I tried to visit, but the Internet was young and not the font of all knowledge that it is today. I think I saw the daycare center on the site. Now there's a Google Maps waypoint.

I recall the book said you could see the Washington Monument from the top of high-rise office buildings in Reston, can you confirm? I snuck into the construction site of a condo building and climbed a tower crane to try and see for myself but couldn't make anything out.





OftenBen  ·  3290 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yep. I finished it on the plane, sat feeling queasy until we landed.

That's so crazy to see all of those photos from the site. It's almost exactly as I pictured it, but I never imagined how densely populated that area is.