Frank: The Novel

Everyone comes back to life (mostly), and Frank buys a farm by the sea.  Nate and Chuck discuss serendipity and coincidence, faith and belief, and problems in systems-engineering.

Frank and Martin poke around Venice.  Nate and Chuck discuss the finer points of personal inspiration, racial disparity, and Gronk's post-NFL career.

Frank and Martin are taken for a ride in the Bordeaux airport.  Nate and Chuck talk politics, the condition of social media, and coping strategies in a world gone well off the rails.

Frank and Mahmud rediscover civilization.  Mahmud is off to Iskenderun, while Frank makes for Venice.  The sheep?  The sheep are long gone.

Nate takes the plunge, philos-o-phizing as in days of yore.  And so it is discussed, from the text in minutiae to the broad macrocosm.  Hold on to your butts, bro-chachos!

Frank and Mahmud explore Shangri-La.  Chuck and Nate explore the intersection of technology, sovereignty, and moral philosophy.

Chapters 16-17: Frank tells a dirty joke.  He and Mahmud get lost in the mountains.  Nate and Chuck nerd out about archeology, Voltaire, Vonnegut, economics, and visions of utopia.

Chapters 13-16: Complications arise for poor ol' Frank.  Nate and Chuck somehow manage to discuss gender politics, history, geography, ethno-demographics, military sub-culture, and moral relativism, without inducing boredom.  Mostly.

Chapters 11-12: Things get cringe.  Nate and Chuck philosophize about it.

Chapters 6-10: Trouble ensues, compounding upon the trouble which had already ensued.  Nate gets all philosophical or whatever, to which Chuck faithfully adds his blah-blah-blahs.  

Chapters 4-5: Things get better for Les.  Frank receives a crash-course in the indignities of air travel.  They pass a typical night in Houston.  Nate goads Chuck into ever more self-indulgent grand-standing.