Posted on 06/17/2005 10:47:19 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith
bookmark. (Literally).
by Larry Wise
Just finished "The Reformation" by Will Durant and a volume on Japanese Film. Coming up next: "Man's Conquest of Space", "1984", "The Bonfire of the Vanities" and a boatload of sci-fi from Heinlein, Niven and Asimov I picked up at yard sales.
Well written, engrossing, really interesting.
Yep, it's a goodie. He is an incredible writer, although he is way too sympathetic to TR's big government tendencies.
Try "Washington's Crossing," by David Hackett Fischer. Then you'll know how we won :)
I'm reading 1984 (Orwell), and after that will come The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky).
I'll read the new Harry Potter book when I get around to it; this summer will be mostly focus on the types of books that require some concentration, since I can't really do anything difficult when I'm at college.
If you haven't yet checked out my book, "A Patriot's History of the United States," please do so.
If you want a good Christian fiction about Harvard and the university in general, look at "Veritas." Can't recall the author---read it about two years ago.
No wonder I'm not getting anywhere. I'm thinking like a millionaire.
Anyone who would enjoy "1776," should try "Private Yankee Doodle" by Joseph Plumb Martin, edited by George Sheer. Wonderful memoir by a revolutionary war private written around 1830 when the author was in his 70s. Nothing dated about it; lots of laughs and lots of tears. Thrown in for good measure is a confrontation with General Putnam and overhearing General Washington cursing. Great book!
Your review made me want to check out Amazon's reviews:
There's a predecessor book called First Light, so you've got more good reading to look forward to.
Seriously though, I put it on my wish list and will read it ASAP. I love history and teach it to Junior and Senior High homeschool students.
Blessings...
I started it but didn't like it as much as the second book. I put it down for awhile, but will start it again at some point. It went in a direction with a certain character I wasn't ready to accept yet.
Harry Potter book. I got the first few chapters of the first four books read. This summer, I'm going to make a big push to get through at least half the book.
I'm going to read that book about Rush Limbaugh being a big fat idiot. Some dude in thick glasses wrote that book, i think it was that guy who played the monkey in Trading Places (stole the show, I think). Anyhow, I hear it is very funny book, least that's what the lady who give me my welfare check sez.
I hear this global warming business is really starting to heat up. I better pick up a copy of "Earth on the Balance" by Al Gore, the man who if was president, maybe we would not be in the global warming mess we are in. I really need to edshucate myself on this global warming so that I can prepare my family for this coming disater.
Do you know I haven't read a single book by who is probably the greatest author of the century? I'm talking Michael Moore. I see his books in all of the bookstores but I never know which one to start with so I keep putting it off. I hear that Michael Moore has a lot to say and since the election, he has been closeted up writing yet another masterpiece. No doubt he is going to be telling us what a wonderful world it would have been if that Kerry was elected.
I also plan to read some biographies of famous people. I thinking Oprah, Barbara Streisand, Richard Gere and Sean Penn, for example. I'm sure you Freepers can think up lots of other famous people to be reeding about.
Well, I think that its going to be very challenging to read all of this in one summer. Maybe some of the Freepers out there can explain parts of the books for me so that I don't have to reed quite so many pages. But I am determined to press on with my reeding, even if it means watching a lot less MTV. I am willing to sacrafice for my edshucayshon.
Whodunnit, Really? Is Dick Francis really the author of the novels that bear his name, or were they written by his late wife, Mary? Consider: He dropped out of school at age 15, whereas she had university degrees in French and English and once worked for a publisher. Prior to Mary’s death in 2000 (she died in his arms of a heart attack at age 76), Dick Francis produced a new novel every year. But after Mary died, he said that he doubted he would ever write anything longer than personal letters ever again. “So much of my work was her.” Indeed, for years Dick Francis credited Mary with an extensive role in the creation his novels, and he repeatedly urged her to accept credit as a co-author. She refused, arguing that “Dick Francis” was the brand name readers responded to. In the end, it hardly matters. But unless you have worked as a husband-and-wife writing team, you can’t really appreciate the melding of a genuine collaboration. And if you’re over 80 and have written a novel a year for more than the past 30 years, who can blame you for hanging up the racing silks?
I love her books.
His Excellency George Washington
Ping! (Didn't you ask about a book club?)
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