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Quote from: star seed 7 on June 20, 2021, 02:45:31 PMI don't dabble much in non-fiction but I've been listening to the rise and fall of the third reich by William L. Shirer and it's totally engrossing. I'm only up to like 1932 and there is still 40 hours left!Just picked this up at the library and felt kind of weird walking out with a book that has a giant Nazi flag on the front.
I don't dabble much in non-fiction but I've been listening to the rise and fall of the third reich by William L. Shirer and it's totally engrossing. I'm only up to like 1932 and there is still 40 hours left!
I had to go back and look this up because wowgood discussion of it here too: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/897092-anti-gay
Just finished Finding Everett Ruess by David Roberts. Tells the story of a 20yo explorer who disappeared in southern Utah in 1934. He was a writer and artist in addition to a talented wilderness explorer. He would go on months long solo journeys into the wilderness in Northern AZ and southern Utah in the three years before he vanished. John Krakauer had a chapter about him in Into the Wild. Makes me want to get back to the Grand Canyon area ASAP.
Quote from: Sandstone Outcropping on February 17, 2021, 08:04:20 AMQuote from: Cire on February 16, 2021, 05:54:46 PMFrederick Douglass biography is outstanding if you like works about incredible people doing incredible thingsSent from my iPhone using TapatalkWhich biography?I'm almost finished with Truman by David McCullough. Pretty fascinating life (for a person from Missouri).not sure which one cire is talking about but prophet of freedom is a good one
Quote from: Cire on February 16, 2021, 05:54:46 PMFrederick Douglass biography is outstanding if you like works about incredible people doing incredible thingsSent from my iPhone using TapatalkWhich biography?I'm almost finished with Truman by David McCullough. Pretty fascinating life (for a person from Missouri).
Frederick Douglass biography is outstanding if you like works about incredible people doing incredible thingsSent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Quote from: Sandstone Outcropping on March 31, 2021, 08:22:29 AMHave we discussed Cormac McCarthy's novels ITT? I think The Crossing is still my favorite with Blood Meridian andNo Country for Old Men close behind.I loved ATPH and decided to read the rest of the trilogy. Each book is good on its own, but I was surprised and amazed at how great they are together. I finished, thought about the themes running throughout, and was like, "holy crap that is incredible."Part I of the crossing is one of my all time favorite books/parts of a book.The earlier stuff is so damn bleak. Good. But damn bleak.
Have we discussed Cormac McCarthy's novels ITT? I think The Crossing is still my favorite with Blood Meridian andNo Country for Old Men close behind.
Need a new non fiction book. Any suggestions? I like books about real people that did cool things. Joined a band, started a business, became a drug lord, IDGAF. If it is real and interesting, i'm prob in. TIA
in the end, EMAW will always win.
I love this NPR thing every year - helps me quickly find some books that might interest me.https://apps.npr.org/best-books/#view=covers&year=2021I'm currently reading No Gods, No Monsters that I picked off of there. Too early to tell how good it is but it's off to a solid start. The Trees is a good one that I just finished reading. Both center around racial issues in quasi-supernatural ways.
Old but 1491 is Awesome. What archaeology/anthropology/genetics etc tells us about the Americas prior to Columbus.
Quote from: Cire on December 02, 2021, 12:38:17 PMOld but 1491 is Awesome. What archaeology/anthropology/genetics etc tells us about the Americas prior to Columbus.Yeah I read 1491 a while back simply because it's been brought up in here a few times. I still intend to read 1493 as well.
IMO both are great. what it really opened my eyes to was the influence of Mexican agriculture on food globally.