Currently reading the Fall of Carthage by Adrian Goldsworthy and after it's time for Hans von Luck's memoirs.
Currently reading the Fall of Carthage by Adrian Goldsworthy and after it's time for Hans von Luck's memoirs.
Friendship, Fun & Honour!
"The Prussian army always attacks."
-Frederick the Great
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The Hobbit, 2nd time two weeks after the first.
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Ja mata Tosa Inu-sama, Hore Tore, Adrian II, Sigurd, Fragony
Mouzafphaerre is known elsewhere as Urwendil/Urwendur/Kibilturg...
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German Medieval Armies 1000-1300. It is an Osprey Book.
I got the following books for christmas:
German Medieval Armies 1000-1300
German Medieval Armies 1300-1500
Swiss at War 1300-1500
Medieval European Armies
Armies of Medieval Russia 750-1250
Medieval Russian Armies 1250-1500
I started with the Medieval European Armies book because it is very general and gave me a sort of introduction to the period.
Don't know if it counts as reading, but I just finished The Ugly American. Absolutely wonderful.
Dragon and the Raven by G.A. Hentry
Originally Posted by strike for the south
Gods and Legions by Michael Curtis Ford, about the Emperor Julian the Apostate
I'll start The Historian soon, maybe in a couple of days, anyone read it?
"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite." - John Kenneth Galbraith
This is neither correct for Russian literature nor literature in general. But, I still like you.Originally Posted by Proletariat
"We are lovers of beauty without extravagance and of learning without loss of vigor." -Thucydides
"The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage." -Thucydides
That is a good one, I read it about 10 years ago.Originally Posted by Redleg
I'm reading the 11th book in the Wheel of Time... I should say I read the prologue then went looking for something that actually has pace to it.
Reading WoT was easy before as I used to read such a huge volume of works that WoT was a nice diversion from the others, now it seems to slow without the other ones to balance my book diet.
I am reading: "Mongols and Mamluks : The Mamluk-Ilkhanid War, 1260-1281"
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/052...lance&n=283155
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"We are lovers of beauty without extravagance and of learning without loss of vigor." -Thucydides
"The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage." -Thucydides
A Game of Thrones
Brilliant Book by George R.R. Martin
"The Golems Eye", and "The Firm"
A nation of sheep will beget a a government of wolves. Edward R. Murrow
Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates his brother is still in the darkness. —1 John 2:9
I'm as uncultured as your next medical field-educated Philistine, but I always figured he was part of the Golden Age of Russian Lit.Originally Posted by Pindar
Do you consider Tolkein's work literature? (Yes, I'll get back to you on him at the private bidale, once I get a little more time)
Great Expectations. It's pretty boring so far. I'm hoping it will start moving a little faster soon. I'm at PG 5o so far.
Reading "The Coast Guard"
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/088...Fencoding=UTF8
With a few exceptions, I'm rarely captivated by fantasy. GRRM is one of those exceptions.Originally Posted by Wakizashi
He will need to do well on A Dance With Dragons, because his latest, A Feast For Crows, was hardly satisfying.
I would agree Tolstoy was part of Russia's Literary Golden Age, but I wouldn't put Anna Karenina as the best book ever written. I wouldn't even give it the best book honor for the 19th Century.Originally Posted by Proletariat
Yes.Do you consider Tolkein's work literature?
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"We are lovers of beauty without extravagance and of learning without loss of vigor." -Thucydides
"The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage." -Thucydides
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I do. What makes them (re)readable is much more the literature than the content.Originally Posted by Proletariat
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Ja mata Tosa Inu-sama, Hore Tore, Adrian II, Sigurd, Fragony
Mouzafphaerre is known elsewhere as Urwendil/Urwendur/Kibilturg...
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The Civil war and the wars of the Nineteenth Century by Brian Holden Reid.
A very good book with maps and drawings of the battles and of the countries of the time as well as pictures and drawings of the men and their equipment. I am enjoying it immensely as it deals with a topic I didn't really know that much about (I knew a bit but not much in depth)
"A man may fight for many things: his country, his principles, his friends, the glistening tear on the cheek of a golden child. But personally, I'd mudwrestle my own mother for a ton of cash, an amusing clock and a stack of French porn."
- Edmund Blackadder
Tolkien disagreed. He got a bit tired of people searching for references. It is a (fun) fairytale, no more no less. And I already explained why LOTR is more gay then all the gaping assholes in the world combined.Originally Posted by Mouzafphaerre
Soooooo how is Harry Potter doing Now THAT is literature :P
.Originally Posted by Fragony
References?
Literature?
Fairy tales?
Gay?
What's the matter?
HP migh be great but it's not literature, it's marketing. LotR might not be great but it is literature, yet it is a fairy tale and it is gay.
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Ja mata Tosa Inu-sama, Hore Tore, Adrian II, Sigurd, Fragony
Mouzafphaerre is known elsewhere as Urwendil/Urwendur/Kibilturg...
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Tolkien hated people coming up with allegories based on LotR, even though there are some apparently obvious ones.
don't see how it can be gay though? Tolkien was a staunch Catholic, happily married and probably had no conception of 'modern' homosexuality. love and respect between male characters does not have to be 'gay'.
he does shortchange his women a bit though...it's a man's world in Middle Earth, a time when men were men and dwarves were...beardy. i always thought elves were a bit androgynous though.
people take so many things away from reading it though, that's why it's a great book.
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Both of us are using gay literally here, not as a pseudonym for homosexuals.
Tolkien denies all allegories and firmly states that he himself doesn't like allegories at all in the preface of the LotR. With or without allegories, it's still literature.
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About women, glad someone else mentions it. He uses female characters sparingly, making those few who happen to be come out rather sharply. Almost all female characters are special ones. One or two ordinary exceptions, like the one at the Gondor hospital appear but I'm sure Tolkien wrote all his stuff in much more a lighthearted manner than we nerds read them, and the scarce and special women appearance came out naturally of his style and not of a strategic foreplanning.
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Ja mata Tosa Inu-sama, Hore Tore, Adrian II, Sigurd, Fragony
Mouzafphaerre is known elsewhere as Urwendil/Urwendur/Kibilturg...
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oh, i see. i am guilty of modern inference on the word gay then! yes, in that sense it's very gay, although i would say the Hobbit is gayer, most of the songs and whatnot are very trivial and 'silly'. but then, he wrote that for kids.
it's certainly a fact that very few major male characters in LotR have a good woman behind them, and most appear never to have any relationships with women (just with each other, eh Fragony!). Sam's got Rosie and Aragorn's got Arwen, but other than that, nada. Although i think Denethor's behavioural development is explained as being largely due to his wife's death.
on the reverse side, Celeborn is irrelevant compared to Galadriel, he's almost written out in favour of his wife...
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I completely agree with The Hobbit being gaier than LotR. Fit for kids of all ages. In either one, I love the man's poetry of all sorts.
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Ja mata Tosa Inu-sama, Hore Tore, Adrian II, Sigurd, Fragony
Mouzafphaerre is known elsewhere as Urwendil/Urwendur/Kibilturg...
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I really, really disliked that book. I can't say why, either. It was sort of like a smarmy guest who wouldn't leave. The kind of guest who eats all of your crackers and cheese, and leaves the crumbs in the couch. You know the kind I mean.Originally Posted by TheSilverKnight
I'll be curious to see if you have a more coherent reaction to that book than I did. Of course, in the canon of Imerial Roman Fiction, nothing's as bad as Hadrian's Wall, or as I like to think of it, "Dances With Celts."
Sorry if someone has already posted these:The Last Legion by Valerio Massimo Manfredi, Spartan by Valerio Massimo Manfredi, The last kingdom by Bernard Cornwell and The pale horseman by Bernard Cornwell
I've read the first two of your list.Originally Posted by Arrowhead
And don't worry about them having been already mentioned, it's what YOU'RE reading at the moment.
I'll be moving onto Boudica by Manda Scott when I get all my unfinished coursework out of the way (that could take a while).
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