Posted on 07/25/2008 3:01:11 PM PDT by Stephanie32
(My first thread, hope I'm doing this right!)
Thank you ! I just looked up the civil war series and they along with these others sound very absorbing, I need so to learn more about this type of history.
Hope you enjoy them! You may need a while to get accustomed to his writing style. I found it bothersome that he would attept to tell what the characters were thinking. Sometimes sorting out their thoughts and what they said just annoyed me for some reason. ;)
I plan to start the WWI series in a couple weeks.
Thank you! that will be interesting to make those comparisons.
Thank you! Sounds like a really interesting way to take a history lesson. Much needed for me!
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I agree about the Orwell books, thank you. (Had to click too !)
Thank you and for including the excerpt too! Very, very interesting !
You are right. I am getting a lot of suggestions and one sounds more interesting than the next. I am very grateful to be posting with so many nice and intelligent people. I don’t follow sports that much but that sounds like a good book. Thank you!
The Honor Harrington novels by David Drake.. sorta a British like navy thats space ships instead of sailing ships,(tho its not Britain but a empire called Manticore) the heroine is the epitome of a British captain of that era..
Ann Rule is very good if you like true crime...
Simon Schama has some very good books on english history that are easy to read and understand... At the edge of the world? is the first..
Graham Mcneils Ultramarine omnibus is very good sf set in the universe of warhammer 40k, a very dark and violent place.
Shogun is perhaps one of my favorite books, very detailed and well written.
Well will list more when i ahve time to look through my library...
Lucky you.
For me it was Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health...
Is that like the special forces? I am kind of fascinated by them, that sounds very interesting. Thank you!
Thank you, I had heard that also and would look forward to reading that!
Thank you so much! Wow, 1000 pages, and I will definitely read the others, we can all use an uplifting read and I like Vince Flynn.
Thank you for the reminder of those phenomenal books, your suggestions are great and well taken I’m sure by everyone.
That sounds great and the love aspect of it would make it even more interesting to read. Thank you!
Thank you, I don’t know of the Canteen threads but I have heard that book is fantastic!
I’m not going to read what has been posted already to see if there are any dupes, but here goes:
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin
THUD! by Terry Pratchett
Sarum by Edward Rutherford
Mere Christianity by CS Lewis
Day of the Jackal by Fredrick Forsyth
Only Pillars and Sarum are roughly the same genre.
Thank you! I just looked that up and it sounds really good, a great way to learn about an era that I am fascinated about an read a good book at the same time.
That is a great one! Thank you!
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