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I'm reading Celts: History and Civilization by Venceslas Kruta. It's less of a text and more like a photo-documentary.
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I'm reading Celts: History and Civilization by Venceslas Kruta. It's less of a text and more like a photo-documentary.
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I'm re-reading Stephen and Matilda: the Civil War 1139-54 by Jim Bradbury (some of you may guess why), I just finished Enemy of God by good old Cornwell and reading bits of On War. I would also be reading the Pale Horseman by Cornwell again, but I forgot it at home. I'm supposed to read l'Ingenu by Voltaire, but I just forgot about. Philosophy and me do not mix.
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For school I have required reading (To Kill A Mockingbird) But in my spare time im currently reading The Enemy Within and Liberalism is a Mental Disorder (I love that title.)
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eh, not reading but writing
Hungarian Chronicles
The rise and fall of a nation
We do not sow.
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Der Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse, and Ides of March by Thornton Wilder. Also sporadically reading Caesar's Civil War.
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The Double by Dostojevskij
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American Spartans The US Marines combat history
and for fun Conapiracy Theories
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I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
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I have two on the go. Non-fiction is Sahib by Richard Holmes. Fiction is The Hundred Days by Patrick O'Brian.
Have loads of books waiting in the wings (especially after Christmas). May have to psyche myself up for The Eastern Front, 1941-45, German Troops and the Barbarisation of Warfare!
"Put 'em in blue coats, put 'em in red coats, the bastards will run all the same!"
"The English are a strange people....They came here in the morning, looked at the wall, walked over it, killed the garrison and returned to breakfast. What can withstand them?"
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"The Weekend Novelist" by Robert J. Ray. Someone told me it was an excellent book for someone with literary ambitions but little time. After reading (very slowly) through four-fifth of the book, I do not agree. But it does have some interesting points.
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I have two on the go. Non-fiction is Sahib by Richard Holmes. Fiction is The Hundred Days by Patrick O'Brian.
Have loads of books waiting in the wings (especially after Christmas). May have to psyche myself up for The Eastern Front, 1941-45, German Troops and the Barbarisation of Warfare!
I had to bite my tounge to keep from laughing there.
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Soldiers and Ghosts by J.E. Lendon.
A magnificent read...
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Dutch Guy, I just finished Caesar, and I'd be interested to chat with you when you're done. The author just seems to be getting stronger as she rolls along. My $0.25 summation of the whole Masters of Rome series: Great historical detail, iffy hypotheses about major historical characters, mediocre writing. In other words, enough for me to keep reading. Not everything needs to be a masterpiece.
I'm currently reading Pride of Carthage, mostly because it's the biggest Roman-era historical novel my local library had laying about. Entirely unsure of what I think of it. A few great passages, some really tedious exposition. And as always when reading a novel about Hannibal, the sheer lack of detailed knowledge about Carthiginian culture shines through. It's very different from reading about Caesar, where there's a plethora of ancient sources.
Anybody else slogging through big historical books?
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A year in the merde, by Stephen Clarke
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"The Golems Eye", and "The Firm"
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"Shadow" by K J Parker
Quite interesting really, this Chappie wakes up with the standard Amnesia background story and travels about trying to find out what on earth has happened.
It is made staggeringly more interesting than it sounds because as he pops off on his little journey he seems to be mimicking that of an ancient fairy tale (that he knows nothing about) in which a God comes down to earth and without any malice intended, utterly destroys the world.
I heartily recommend it.
The review incidentally, may well contain spoilers, just read the first paragraph if interested, it pretty much sums up the book.
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Emperor - The death of Kings by Conn Iggulden
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Is that the last one in the series ?
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almost done with Emperor: Field of Swords.
(3rd in seiries)
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"Managment of foreign trade" for my exam.
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EURO 2008 & Mobile Suit Gundam 00
Waiting for: Wimbledon 2008.
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Gave a looong break (since April) to Tolkien's Lays of Beleriand. Rumbling around -basically classical- Turkish poetry before sleep.
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Redcoat, The British Soldier in the Age of the Horse and Musket by Richard Holmes. I got into it after reading some of the threads in ETW. Its not bad but at times it does feel a bit like a string of quotes which makes it harder to follow the point his trying to illustrate. I would say its worth a look if your into this period of history.
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Just finished Wicked. Wow, just wow. It really got into peoples basic personalities and how their cultures and the way other people treated them affected how they turned out to be. In the end I ended up disgusted with how all of the characters turned out to be but I understood how they got that way. Not always the best writing but he did a great job with the characters. I highly recommend it.
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So that its subjects will view it with admiration, as a chicken which has the daring and courage to boldly cross the road,
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chicken's dominion maintained. ~Machiavelli
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right now i'm reading 'The Man in the Iron Mask'. Alexandre Dumas is one of my favorite writers; The Three Musketeers was great, and The Count of Monte Cristo was very, very interesting, yet hard to read.
I would recommend both, along with the D'Artagnan Series
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For school, I'm reading and annotating Jean Paul Sartre's "Existentialism" which should be fun!
For fun, I'm thinking of picking up Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, I always love a good satire!
If anyone's interested, I recently finished reading Norman Davies's 1400 page Europe: A History, which was an absolutely fascinating read!
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-Niccolo Machiavelli
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"The Virtues of War" by Pressfield as well as glancing through The Iliad.
What time does not pervert, it destroys outright.
From this we may conclude that there are no eternal truths, no limitless passions.
There are only subtle deceptions.
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A very good book, although not my personal favorite by Pressfield. His superb Tides of War and Gates of Fire are tops on my list, with Last of the Amazons receiving honorable mention. The man knows his ancient Greek history.
As for myself, I'm nearing the (current, temporary) end of the Honor Harrington books. Am over halfway through At All Costs, with only Storm From the Shadows left to go after that.
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Dante's Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
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All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
And for some light entertainment in between the harrowing accounts of trench warfare, The Second World War Volume Two: Their Finest Hour, by Winston Churchill.
frogbeastegg's TWS2 guide....it's here!
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How are you finding the "comfort" of reading it? I've heard it is a difficult book to get through.
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Why do all the books have to be "high brow" books? Don't any of you read for fun. Yes, I have read :Grapes of Wrath" and "The Pearl" but reading to me is as if some one is telling me a bedtime story. I want to sink into the book and live it. Shakespeare did write for the masses
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