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Re: book reccomendations
« Reply #75 on: April 20, 2010, 04:58:35 PM »
I'll read a thousand pages about the transition of Europe during the years 400 to 1000, but hand me Hemmingway or Kerouak or "Catch-22" and...
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Yeah, history is fascinating.  I saw that people were reading historical fiction and was like, "WTF, mates?  Read the real deal."  But I didn't say anything.

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Re: book reccomendations
« Reply #76 on: April 20, 2010, 05:01:24 PM »
I'll read a thousand pages about the transition of Europe during the years 400 to 1000, but hand me Hemmingway or Kerouak or "Catch-22" and...
 :zzz:

Yeah, history is fascinating.  I saw that people were reading historical fiction and was like, "WTF, mates?  Read the real deal."  But I didn't say anything.

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Re: book reccomendations
« Reply #77 on: April 20, 2010, 05:05:41 PM »
I'll read a thousand pages about the transition of Europe during the years 400 to 1000, but hand me Hemmingway or Kerouak or "Catch-22" and...
 :zzz:

Yeah, history is fascinating.  I saw that people were reading historical fiction and was like, "WTF, mates?  Read the real deal."  But I didn't say anything.

Not a fan of Ambrose?

NO ONE IS!   :curse:  fracking nerd count on this board is through the roof.

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Re: book reccomendations
« Reply #78 on: April 20, 2010, 05:15:53 PM »
ok, someone recommend some good historical non-fiction, too, please.  Read "With the Old Breed" already.

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Re: book reccomendations
« Reply #79 on: April 20, 2010, 05:24:55 PM »
ok, someone recommend some good historical non-fiction, too, please.  Read "With the Old Breed" already.

haven't read it, but i've been given "Team of Rivals" by Doris Goodwin. Abe Lincoln looks stunning on the cover.

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« Reply #80 on: April 20, 2010, 05:28:15 PM »
ok, someone recommend some good historical non-fiction, too, please.  Read "With the Old Breed" already.

haven't read it, but i've been given "Team of Rivals" by Doris Goodwin. Abe Lincoln looks stunning on the cover.

she's always really good on the Daily Show.  AND MY SH*TTY LOCAL LIBRARY HAS IT!  :ksu:

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« Reply #81 on: April 20, 2010, 05:36:19 PM »
Founding Brothers is a good.  1776 is good.

Team of Rivals.

The Republic of Pirates is GREAT.

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Re: book reccomendations
« Reply #82 on: April 20, 2010, 06:12:28 PM »
read the easy hemmingway.

reading hemmingway is funny.  that guy got away with murder.  like some modern artist that everyone thinks is a genius, but 50 years later is revealed to be an elephant.

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Re: book reccomendations
« Reply #83 on: April 20, 2010, 06:27:00 PM »
read the easy hemmingway.

reading hemmingway is funny.  that guy got away with murder.  like some modern artist that everyone thinks is a genius, but 50 years later is revealed to be an elephant.

or warhol
of half of this board's posters (the one's people think are good)

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Re: book reccomendations
« Reply #84 on: April 21, 2010, 12:45:10 AM »
The Sun Also Rises
The Catcher in the Rye

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Re: book reccomendations
« Reply #85 on: April 21, 2010, 01:01:23 AM »
ok, someone recommend some good historical non-fiction, too, please.  Read "With the Old Breed" already.

haven't read it, but i've been given "Team of Rivals" by Doris Goodwin. Abe Lincoln looks stunning on the cover.
Did you have to read Darkness at Noon in Prague?

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Re: book reccomendations
« Reply #86 on: April 21, 2010, 04:54:27 AM »
Read Kafka (great short storiea).  Then you get to call things "Kafka-esque."

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Re: book reccomendations
« Reply #87 on: April 21, 2010, 07:40:40 AM »
Notes from the Underground.

The only fiction I'd recommend.

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The Plant Sitter.

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Re: book reccomendations
« Reply #88 on: April 21, 2010, 07:42:27 AM »
ok, someone recommend some good historical non-fiction, too, please.  Read "With the Old Breed" already.

haven't read it, but i've been given "Team of Rivals" by Doris Goodwin. Abe Lincoln looks stunning on the cover.

read the first chapter, and a :moreira: for asava.

Great book.  Will fill a lot of the boring Michigan spring.

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Re: book reccomendations
« Reply #89 on: April 21, 2010, 07:47:52 AM »
ok, someone recommend some good historical non-fiction, too, please.  Read "With the Old Breed" already.

Rusty, for eff sakes, read Winds of War and then War and Rememberance.  They go every other chapter Historical Fiction/History.  They are also the best books I ever read.  FOR eff SAKES!

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Re: book reccomendations
« Reply #90 on: April 21, 2010, 07:54:03 AM »
ok, someone recommend some good historical non-fiction, too, please.  Read "With the Old Breed" already.

Rusty, for shazbot! sakes, read Winds of War and then War and Rememberance.  They go every other chapter Historical Fiction/History.  They are also the best books I ever read.  FOR shazbot! SAKES!

Man, I still have like 750 pages of Team of Rivals and I'm already confused by your book.

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Re: book reccomendations
« Reply #91 on: April 21, 2010, 07:56:27 AM »
ok, someone recommend some good historical non-fiction, too, please.  Read "With the Old Breed" already.

Rusty, for shazbot! sakes, read Winds of War and then War and Rememberance.  They go every other chapter Historical Fiction/History.  They are also the best books I ever read.  FOR shazbot! SAKES!

Man, I still have like 750 pages of Team of Rivals and I'm already confused by your book.


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Re: book reccomendations
« Reply #92 on: April 21, 2010, 08:14:53 AM »
A few years back I read a book named "Without Vodka", a Polish prisoner of wars accounts of world war 2.  Was pretty interesting.
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« Reply #93 on: April 21, 2010, 08:17:21 AM »
A few years back I read a book named "Without Vodka", a Polish prisoner of wars accounts of world war 2.  Was pretty interesting.

There's just so much sh*t that's happened.  I want to know all about it, but it would take a really long time.

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Re: book reccomendations
« Reply #94 on: April 21, 2010, 08:17:56 AM »
Guns of August

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« Reply #95 on: April 21, 2010, 08:18:53 AM »
Newt Gingrich wrote a book about Gettysburg and framed it as the South Won the battle.

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« Reply #96 on: April 21, 2010, 08:19:14 AM »
A few years back I read a book named "Without Vodka", a Polish prisoner of wars accounts of world war 2.  Was pretty interesting.

There's just so much sh*t that's happened.  I want to know all about it, but it would take a really long time.
World War 2 history buffs annoy me.  Just thought i'd bring that out there.  They weren't there, and have no idea what some general was really thinking.  

But this book portrayed genuine human suffering and remorse.
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Re: book reccomendations
« Reply #97 on: April 21, 2010, 12:45:53 PM »
ok, someone recommend some good historical non-fiction, too, please.  Read "With the Old Breed" already.

haven't read it, but i've been given "Team of Rivals" by Doris Goodwin. Abe Lincoln looks stunning on the cover.
Did you have to read Darkness at Noon in Prague?

Don't think so. However I read a crap ton while there. Pretty much took all lit classes. Was it a short story or a novel? I don't remember all the names of the short stories we read. Did you read anything by Bohumil Hrabal? That crap is amazing. Two of the best books I've ever read under 150 pages.

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« Reply #99 on: April 22, 2010, 11:00:01 AM »
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