What's the stupidest thing you have said/done this year?

[Adrian II]

I cannot help but see that you throughly enjoy reading. I do as well and was wondering if you have any recent favorites i should look for.

Hi, Rising general, it depends on what you're interested in. From what you listed I would guess it's mainly Ancient and Medieval History. Lemme see, I thoroughly enjoyed a couple recently. 1. Georges Duby, The Legend of Bouvines, which is about the battle itself but also, and mainly, about the treatment it was given by (partisan) contemporaries and later historians and the resulting mythology. Everything by Duby is great, and it's all available in English I believe. 2. Donald Kagan, The Peloponnesian War, which is really modern man's companion to Thucydides' classic and very good, not just on war but also politics, plague, philosophy etcetera. 3. Ian Ousby, The Road to Verdun, not really ancient history, but a very well-written and researched book that compares myth and reality in the battle over Verdun. Three massive, well-done bricks that should tie you over the remainder of this winter.

Anything you can recommend to me? I'm more the Modern History, Political Philosophy and Current Affairs kind of guy. And is it OK if I change the Daniels for a Tullamore Dew?

[Sjakihata]

What about some fiction? You cannot go around reading ancient history all your life... well some can, but y'all know what happens to those kinds of guys ;)

[Uesugi Kenshin]

With a computer you can order books!

Right now I am reading All Quiet on the Western Front , anyone else read it?

Did you like it?

I can't get the time to do much free reading though, my English class is assigning a lot of boring books and I don't have enough free time to be reding 2 at a time right now.

[discovery1]

I read it. It was 'good' in the sense that it could invoke emotions. Almost made me cry a few times.