ok, that didn't make much sense. What I meant to say was his book The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America is very scathing of America, that would have been a more controversial choice. The Appalachian Trail is mainly about how unfit he is from what I remember.
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ok, that didn't make much sense. What I meant to say was his book The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America is very scathing of America, that would have been a more controversial choice. The Appalachian Trail is mainly about how unfit he is from what I remember.
He does some wonderful descriptive passages of the plants, trees, flowers and wildlife of the Appalachian Trail. I'll have to suggest THE LOST CONTINENT..... for a future read.
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Posted 17 December 2011 - 09:30 PM
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
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Posted 01 January 2012 - 09:10 PM
If anyone is interested, George Martin has uploaded a chapter from the 6th Ice and Fire book at his website. It's a Theon/Stannis chapter, doesn't go beyond the timeline of the 5th book.
http://georgerrmarti.../if-sample.html
http://georgerrmarti.../if-sample.html
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Posted 19 January 2012 - 04:12 PM
The Winter's Tale - Shakespeare
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Posted 19 January 2012 - 04:45 PM
Thanks for the Winds of Winter chapter TAP.
I'm currently reading Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut.
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Posted 25 January 2012 - 08:27 PM
If anyone is interested, George Martin has uploaded a chapter from the 6th Ice and Fire book at his website. It's a Theon/Stannis chapter, doesn't go beyond the timeline of the 5th book.http://georgerrmarti.../if-sample.html
What did you think of a Dance with Dragons?
I just finished 11/22/63. An amazing book. One I highly recommend. One of King's more engaging books in my opinion. I read it all in two days, and I rarely do that.
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Posted 25 January 2012 - 08:43 PM
What did you think of a Dance with Dragons?
Mixed feelings. Most of it I really liked on its own merits, but if anything it seemed to move the whole story backwards like he has no idea how to come to a conclusion. Love the Tyrion and Snow story arcs, got really bored with Dany, like the Stannis/Theon stuff. I like that he kills of main characters but I have to believe the 'death' will be overturned, would make no sense for that character to just drop out of the story. And the new major character introduced towards the end just seems another way to stretch it out further - can't see how it wraps up in 2 books of a similar style. Think some of us discussed it in this thread late summer/ early fall if you want to see what I thought at the time I actually read it
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Posted 10 February 2012 - 09:34 PM
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Messages of Murder: A Study of the Reports of the Einsatzgruppen, 1941-3 - Ronald Headland
Messages of Murder: A Study of the Reports of the Einsatzgruppen, 1941-3 - Ronald Headland
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Posted 24 February 2012 - 08:52 PM
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Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust - Richard Rhodes
Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust - Richard Rhodes
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Posted 15 March 2012 - 09:47 PM
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Himmler: A Life - Peter Longerich
Himmler: A Life - Peter Longerich
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Posted 14 April 2012 - 08:06 AM
I'm currently reading some books I'll be using in my summer and fall courses.
Drezner - Theories of International Politics and Zombies
Stewart - The Summer of 1787
The first is a rather tongue in rotting undead cheek look at the various international relations worldviews and how they predict humanity, including our states, international organizations, and cultures. would respond to the zombie apocalypse.
The second is a study of the Constitutional Convention. I've only started reading it, though I read Miracle at Philadelphia as a high school yonker. I find comparing it to real world politics interesting. Right now, here in Indiana, we have a GOP Senate primary where the incumbent, Dick Lugar, is being challenged by a Teabagger holding state office. The challenger, Mourdock, has villainized the process of compromise and negotiation and his supporters believe that Lugar, who has worked with many Democrats over the years, is some sort of party purity traitor. Mourdock and his ilk hate compromise yet we also see enough news to know that your average Teabagger mentions the Constitution approximately 3.7 times per sentence. This is the same Constitution that was based so much in compromise and negotiation, where multiple individuals with differing and often competing interests found a way to meet in the middle for the greater good. I cannot begin to understand the cognitive dissonance necessary to hold such conflicting views that are BOTH at the very basis of what it means to follow the Tea Party's philosophy of politics.
Drezner - Theories of International Politics and Zombies
Stewart - The Summer of 1787
The first is a rather tongue in rotting undead cheek look at the various international relations worldviews and how they predict humanity, including our states, international organizations, and cultures. would respond to the zombie apocalypse.
The second is a study of the Constitutional Convention. I've only started reading it, though I read Miracle at Philadelphia as a high school yonker. I find comparing it to real world politics interesting. Right now, here in Indiana, we have a GOP Senate primary where the incumbent, Dick Lugar, is being challenged by a Teabagger holding state office. The challenger, Mourdock, has villainized the process of compromise and negotiation and his supporters believe that Lugar, who has worked with many Democrats over the years, is some sort of party purity traitor. Mourdock and his ilk hate compromise yet we also see enough news to know that your average Teabagger mentions the Constitution approximately 3.7 times per sentence. This is the same Constitution that was based so much in compromise and negotiation, where multiple individuals with differing and often competing interests found a way to meet in the middle for the greater good. I cannot begin to understand the cognitive dissonance necessary to hold such conflicting views that are BOTH at the very basis of what it means to follow the Tea Party's philosophy of politics.
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Posted 18 April 2012 - 11:31 AM
Hitler's Hangman: The Life of Heydrich - Robert Gerwarth
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