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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 24, 2018 14:11:50 GMT -5
Woke up early unable to sleep so finished of my latest book reading: 1812: The War That Forged a Nation by Walter R. Borneman. This small "war" occurring between the American Revolution and the Civil War was a unifying point in history setting the stage for expansion into the west. This is a place in time when America was developing as a nation and finding it's courage and strength. An easily readable book without feeling stuffy or full of fact filled boring diatribes. An enjoyable adventure which tells in short vignettes many of the characters and incidents with plenty of land and sea battles. This book helps to humanize the combatants and provide insights of the heroes and villains involved while summarizing this time of growth for the US. If you are curious and want to know more this one will help fill that void for you! That's on my list of books to read. Which does not mean I'll live long enough to read it.
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Post by brutalis on Oct 24, 2018 15:36:56 GMT -5
Woke up early unable to sleep so finished of my latest book reading: 1812: The War That Forged a Nation by Walter R. Borneman. This small "war" occurring between the American Revolution and the Civil War was a unifying point in history setting the stage for expansion into the west. This is a place in time when America was developing as a nation and finding it's courage and strength. An easily readable book without feeling stuffy or full of fact filled boring diatribes. An enjoyable adventure which tells in short vignettes many of the characters and incidents with plenty of land and sea battles. This book helps to humanize the combatants and provide insights of the heroes and villains involved while summarizing this time of growth for the US. If you are curious and want to know more this one will help fill that void for you! That's on my list of books to read. Which does not mean I'll live long enough to read it. Think positively Slam! You just have to give up everything else keeping you from reading every minute of every day. I mean, do you really need to do all the other things life requires? I keep saying much of the things i continue purchasing in books, comics, music and DVD/Bluray are really meant for my retirement, which of course is actually a lie to myself because there still won't be enough time even then. At least I know I have a spectacular personal library to choose from!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2018 1:32:02 GMT -5
The results for the top 100 reads from PBS' the Great American Read are in... Here they are from 1 to 100...I've bolded those I know I actually read in its entirety (some I read parts of as assigned reads for classes I wanted to cut corners on and supplemented that with Cliff Notes or some other study aid so I didn't count those nor did I count those I had read adaptations or abridged versions of) To Kill a Mockingbird Outlander (Series) Harry Potter (Series)Pride and Prejudice Lord of the RingsGone with the Wind Charlotte’s WebLittle Women Chronicles of NarniaJane Eyre Anne of Green Gables Grapes of Wrath A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Book Thief Great GatsbyThe Help The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 1984 And Then There Were None Atlas Shrugged Wuthering Heights Lonesome Dove Pillars of the Earth Stand Rebecca A Prayer for Owen MeanyColor Purple Alice in WonderlandGreat Expectations Catcher in the RyeWhere the Red Fern Grows Outsiders The Da Vinci CodeThe Handmaid’s Tale DuneThe Little Prince Call of the Wild The Clan of the Cave Bear The Hitchhiker’s Guide to The GalaxyThe Hunger Games The Count of Monte Cristo The Joy Luck Club FrankensteinThe Giver Memoirs of a Geisha Moby Dick Catch 22 Game of Thrones (series) Foundation (series)War and Peace Their Eyes Were Watching God Jurassic Park The Godfather One Hundred Years of Solitude The Picture of Dorian Gray The Notebook The Shack A Confederacy of DuncesThe Hunt for Red October Beloved The Martian The Wheel of Time (series)Siddhartha Crime and Punishment The Sun Also Rises The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime A Separate PeaceDon Quixote The Lovely Bones The Alchemist Hatchet (series) Invisible ManThe Twilight Saga (series) Tales of the City (series) Gulliver’s TravelsReady Player One Left Behind (series) Gone Girl Watchers The Pilgrim’s Progress Alex Cross Mysteries (series) Things Fall Apart Heart of DarknessGilead Flowers in the Attic Fifty Shades of Grey The Sirens of Titan This Present Darkness Americanah Another Country Bless Me, Ultima Looking for Alaska The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Swan Song Mind Invaders White Teeth Ghost The Coldest Winter Ever The IntuitionistDoña Bárbára a little less than a quarter of the list (though some entries represent multiple books because they are series. I believe the Invisible Man on the list is Ralph Ellison's novel on being black in America not Wells thriller, but I have read both so counted it either way. Remember people were asked to vote for their favorites not what they thought were the best. -M
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 25, 2018 10:53:41 GMT -5
Marie Severin: The Mirthful Mistress of Comics
by Dewey Cassell Twomorrows looks that Mirthful Marie Severin. While Marie should need no introduction, she started out as an assistant to Harvey Kurtzman at EC and colorist extrordinaire at that company until it folded into nothing but Mad Magazine. Marie later was a fixture at Marvel comics as a colorist, as a cover designer and as penciler on Dr. Strange, The Incredible Hulk, Sub-Mariner and Kull. Marie was an incredible humor artist who was a fixture on Marvel's humor books and their Star line of books. If you're familiar with Twomorrows artist books you know what you're going to get. And there's a lot of interview with Marie about her life and work. But this one also contains significant interviews with Marie's peers and co-workers which gives a bit of added perspective, though she seems to have been universally liked. For me, the most interesting a thought-provoking thing about the book is that I learned a fair bit about comic book coloring, something I knew very little about and hadn't given a lot of thought over the years. What Marie did at EC as a dedicated colorist was pretty revolutionary at the time and it was well worth the time reading to find out about this part of the comic book process. Good look at a lovely lady who is definitely missed.
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Post by Prince Hal on Oct 25, 2018 11:57:18 GMT -5
I've read and/or taught a bunch of these. Not surprised to see TKAM in the top spot.
It's an eclectic mix of classics and popular fiction, with a few surprises: Pilgrim's Progress? Wow!
Glad to see Charlotte's Web, Lonesome Dove and Great Expectations made it.
Odd not to see a Ray Bradbury book there. (I have a soft spot for Something Wicked This Way Comes.)
Or Shakespeare. Not even Romeo and Juliet? Or was this list restricted to novels?
To Kill a Mockingbird Outlander (Series) Harry Potter (Series) Pride and Prejudice Lord of the Rings Gone with the Wind Charlotte’s Web Little Women Chronicles of Narnia Jane Eyre Anne of Green Gables Grapes of Wrath A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Book Thief Great Gatsby The Help The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 1984 And Then There Were None Atlas Shrugged Wuthering Heights Lonesome Dove Pillars of the Earth Stand Rebecca A Prayer for Owen Meany Color Purple Alice in Wonderland Great Expectations Catcher in the Rye Where the Red Fern Grows Outsiders The Da Vinci Code The Handmaid’s Tale Dune The Little Prince Call of the Wild The Clan of the Cave Bear The Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy The Hunger Games The Count of Monte Cristo The Joy Luck Club Frankenstein The Giver Memoirs of a Geisha Moby Dick Catch 22 Game of Thrones (series) Foundation (series) War and Peace Their Eyes Were Watching God Jurassic Park The Godfather One Hundred Years of Solitude The Picture of Dorian Gray The Notebook The Shack A Confederacy of Dunces The Hunt for Red October Beloved The Martian The Wheel of Time (series) Siddhartha Crime and Punishment The Sun Also Rises The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime A Separate Peace Don Quixote The Lovely Bones The Alchemist Hatchet (series) Invisible Man The Twilight Saga (series) Tales of the City (series) Gulliver’s Travels Ready Player One Left Behind (series) Gone Girl Watchers The Pilgrim’s Progress Alex Cross Mysteries (series) Things Fall Apart Heart of Darkness Gilead Flowers in the Attic Fifty Shades of Grey The Sirens of Titan This Present Darkness Americanah Another Country Bless Me, Ultima Looking for Alaska The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Swan Song Mind Invaders White Teeth Ghost The Coldest Winter Ever The Intuitionist Doña Bárbára
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Post by Confessor on Oct 25, 2018 13:21:11 GMT -5
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury. Following on from my re-read of 2001: A Space Odyssey, here's another sci-fi classic that I recently finished. The Martian Chronicles is a collection of short stories by Ray Bradbury that were first published in the pages of various pulp sci-fi magazines in the late 1940s and early 1950s. These stories hang together and form a loose, chronologically arranged narrative about the colonisation of the planet Mars by Earthmen between the years 1999 and 2027. The book's unusual structure means that any of these short stories could, in fact, be read as a stand alone tale (which is precisely how they would've been read on their initial publication, of course). The Mars that Bradbury conjures is strange, beautiful and desolate, and very reminiscent of the old American frontier. The parallels between the Martians and the Native American Indians are obvious, particularly in the story, "—And the Moon Be Still As Bright", in which it's discovered that the Martians have been all but wiped out by the chickenpox virus that the human pioneers have inadvertently brought to the planet. Comparisons with the smallpox that European settlers brought to North America, and which decimated a number of Native American tribes, are obvious and entirely intentional. "The Settlers" too is analogous of the plight of the Native Americans, with a member of the fourth expedition to Mars angrily voicing his concern and frustration that the mysterious beauty of the ancient Martian civilisation is being destroyed by him and his fellow astronauts. The Martians themselves are telepathic shape-shifters, and initially they try to stall the colonisation of their planet by playing upon the homesickness of the astronauts who come from Earth. I won't say too much more about this, but I will tell you that "The Third Expedition" is a very cool horror story. The Martians are described as brown-skinned humanoids with round yellow eyes, who travel across the dusty plains of Mars in blue-sailed sand-ships. As an aside, I wonder whether Bradbury's short story "Dark They Were, And Golden-Eyed", which is set on Mars and was written at the same time, but not included in The Martian Chronicles, features Martians with the same body design? The Earthmen's Martian settlements seem to be comfortingly retro versions of the Midwestern suburbs of the '40s and '50s. That's probably more of a by-product of the era in which these stories were written, rather than any high concept by Bradbury. Nevertheless, there's a fair bit of thinly-veiled social commentary of 1940s American culture in the book. Really though, the author's main focus in The Martian Chronicles isn't the native Martians, their world, or even planetary exploration. It's all about the smaller scale, personal stories of the human settlers. Loneliness is a recurring theme, which effects starship crewmen, bachelors, spinsters, children, the elderly, and wives and husbands alike. The astronauts who first arrive on this strange planet, 33 million miles from home, feel alienated and alone, rather than triumphant or heroic. For me, one of the most powerful and memorable stories in the book is "The Martian", which tells of an elderly couple of settlers, whose son, Tom, died on Earth years ago. When "Tom" suddenly appears at their Martian home one day, his mother Anna is all too happy to accept their once deceased son back into the household, intoxicated by the solace of having him near again and seemingly oblivious to the fact that he should be dead. After the boy's father questions him alone, "Tom" admits that he is a Martian empath, with shape-shifting abilities. I won't spoil the ending of this tale, but suffice it to say, it's a tremendously touching story that you won't soon forget. Although most of the tales in the book are set on the planet Mars, one of the best chapters actually takes place in post-apocalyptic California. "There Will Come Soft Rains" probably features the "loneliest" characters in the entire book – and they aren't human at all! The story describes an abandoned house after a nuclear war, where AI automations blindly go about their business, seeing to the requirements of a dead family, who will never again reside in the house. Again, I won't spoil the ending, but the story has everything to do with mortality – both human and mechanical. Overall, The Martian Chronicles is a fascinating read. Bradbury's lyrical writing is perfectly suited to the melancholy nature of the very human concerns he examines against the backdrop of the colonisation of Mars. The book can be funny, gripping and thought-provoking, but it's the creeping melancholia that stays with you, especially with the achingly poignant final chapter. There are no interstellar wars, no laser gun shoot-outs, and no starship dogfights above alien planets in The Martian Chronicles; just a collection of well-written and rather affecting stories about the human condition and mankind's need to explore. As such, this is probably a good science-fiction novel for those who don't normally like science-fiction.
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Post by Prince Hal on Oct 25, 2018 14:06:22 GMT -5
^^ Well said, Confessor . I read this when I was 13. I had given sf a few tries, but I never really took to it as much a couple of friends had. But Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man were two that I very much enjoyed. They were the first real "adult" reading I ever did, come to think of it, and though I knew I wasn't always picking up on everything Bradbury was commenting on, I felt as if I had taken an important step into another realm of reading. I know what you mean about the loneliness of The Martian Chronicles. Immersing myself in that book for even one story meant that I would emerge with an almost aching sense of homesickness even though I hadn't left my bedroom. And I agree about "Soft Rains," which is an ingenious story, but one that also makes us feel for the steadfast, loyal home that functions on its own. It's like a futuristic version of "Greyfriars Bobby" and affects me in much the same way.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 25, 2018 14:44:31 GMT -5
The Robots of Dawn by Isaac Asimov I remember when this one hit the Science Fiction Book Club. It made quite a splash (though not as much as Foundation's Edge a couple years earlier). It definitely made a splash with me because I was always a bigger fan of Asimov's Robot books than of Foundation (not that I ddin't like Foundation). I also think that this may have been the last of Asimov's books that I ever read. I just never really "felt" later-era Asimov. Elijah Bailey and Daneel Olivaw are back. Bailey is sent to Aurora, the most prominent Spacer planet, to solve a case of roboticide. At stake, the fate of Earth's place in the galaxy and Bailey's status on Earth. Han Fastolfe, Aurora's leading roboticist and the leading proponent of Earth colonizing the galaxy, has been accused of destroying his own creation the humaniform robot R. Jander Panell. And Fastolfe says he is the only person who could have induced mind-lock on Jander...but he insists he did not and it is a statistically nearly impossible random event. It's up to Bailey to prove that Fastolfe didn't destroy Jander's mind. The problem is...that while the book is well written and it's nice to see Bailey and Daneel again...the book doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Asimov tries to explain why Fastolfe's destruction of his own property which isn't a crime would have galaxy-wide political and legal repercussions...but it really doesn't ring true or make sense. And while Bailey is clearly the most famous detective in the galaxy after the events in The Caves of Steel and The Naked Sun there's really no reason to think he is going to be able to prove a negative when he has no grounding in robotics and his starting point is that this was a random glitch. There are two levels of mystery here as well. And Asimov generally plays fair and the two are intertwined to the point that the second mystery can't really be talked about without being very spoilery. And that's okay. There are a couple of call-backs to earlier stories dealing with Asimovian Robots. One is to a particular Susan Calvin story and one is to Bicentennial Man. This made happy. What made me less happy is that Asimov starts to explicitly tie together his Robot works with the Empire "trilogy" and the Foundation books. It's possible that he started to do this in Foundation's Edge. I'll admit that it's been probably 35 years since I've read that book, so I don't remember. But it's clear here. And I'm not sure I like it. I suspect that this is fan/publisher service on the part of Asimov. There really wasn't any indication that his was a long-term plan from back the early phases of his writing. But we know how nerds love everything to tie together. I'm just not sure I see it as being necessary much less desirable. Overall...the book is okay. There's enough here that I like that I don't feel bad having re-read it. But it's also clear why I haven't read this in over thirty years when I've revisited the two previous Robot novels a couple times in the interim. It just doesn't stack up.
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Post by Calamas on Oct 25, 2018 17:00:50 GMT -5
35 years? I really didn't need to hear that.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 25, 2018 17:36:36 GMT -5
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury. Following on from my re-read of 2001: A Space Odyssey, here's another sci-fi classic that I recently finished. The Martian Chronicles is a collection of short stories by Ray Bradbury that were first published in the pages of various pulp sci-fi magazines in the late 1940s and early 1950s. These stories hang together and form a loose, chronologically arranged narrative about the colonisation of the planet Mars by Earthmen between the years 1999 and 2027. The book's unusual structure means that any of these short stories could, in fact, be read as a stand alone tale (which is precisely how they would've been read on their initial publication, of course). The Mars that Bradbury conjures is strange, beautiful and desolate, and very reminiscent of the old American frontier. The parallels between the Martians and the Native American Indians are obvious, particularly in the story, "—And the Moon Be Still As Bright", in which it's discovered that the Martians have been all but wiped out by the chickenpox virus that the human pioneers have inadvertently brought to the planet. Comparisons with the smallpox that European settlers brought to North America, and which decimated a number of Native American tribes, are obvious and entirely intentional. "The Settlers" too is analogous of the plight of the Native Americans, with a member of the fourth expedition to Mars angrily voicing his concern and frustration that the mysterious beauty of the ancient Martian civilisation is being destroyed by him and his fellow astronauts. The Martians themselves are telepathic shape-shifters, and initially they try to stall the colonisation of their planet by playing upon the homesickness of the astronauts who come from Earth. I won't say too much more about this, but I will tell you that "The Third Expedition" is a very cool horror story. The Martians are described as brown-skinned humanoids with round yellow eyes, who travel across the dusty plains of Mars in blue-sailed sand-ships. As an aside, I wonder whether Bradbury's short story "Dark They Were, And Golden-Eyed", which is set on Mars and was written at the same time, but not included in The Martian Chronicles, features Martians with the same body design? The Earthmen's Martian settlements seem to be comfortingly retro versions of the Midwestern suburbs of the '40s and '50s. That's probably more of a by-product of the era in which these stories were written, rather than any high concept by Bradbury. Nevertheless, there's a fair bit of thinly-veiled social commentary of 1940s American culture in the book. Really though, the author's main focus in The Martian Chronicles isn't the native Martians, their world, or even planetary exploration. It's all about the smaller scale, personal stories of the human settlers. Loneliness is a recurring theme, which effects starship crewmen, bachelors, the elderly, spinsters, children, and wives and husbands alike. The astronauts who first arrive on this strange planet, 33 million miles from home, feel alienated and alone, rather than triumphant or heroic. For me, one of the most powerful and memorable stories in the book is "The Martian", which tells of an elderly couple of settlers, whose son, Tom, died on Earth years ago. When "Tom" suddenly appears at their Martian home one day, his mother Anna is all too happy to accept their once deceased son back into the household, intoxicated by the solace of having him near again and seemingly oblivious to the fact that he should be dead. After the boy's father questions him alone, "Tom" admits that he is a Martian empath, with shape-shifting abilities. I won't spoil the ending of this tale, but suffice it to say, it's a tremendously touching story that you won't soon forget. Although most of the tales in the book are set on the planet Mars, one of the best chapters actually takes place in post-apocalyptic California. "There Will Come Soft Rains" probably features the "loneliest" characters in the entire book – and they aren't human at all! The story describes an abandoned house after a nuclear war, where AI automations blindly go about their business, seeing to the requirements of a dead family, who will never again reside in the house. Again, I won't spoil the ending, but the story has everything to do with mortality – both human and mechanical. Overall, The Martian Chronicles is a fascinating read. Bradbury's lyrical writing is perfectly suited to the melancholy nature of the very human concerns he examines against the backdrop of the colonisation of Mars. The book can be funny, gripping and thought-provoking, but it's the creeping melancholia that stays with you, especially with the achingly poignant final chapter. There are no interstellar wars, no laser gun shoot-outs, and no starship dogfights above alien planets in The Martian Chronicles; just a collection of well-written and rather affecting stories about the human condition and mankind's need to explore. As such, this is probably a good science-fiction novel for those who don't normally like science-fiction. I'm a huge fan of Ray Bradbury and I love The Martian Chronicles. I would conservatively guess that I've read it 8-10 times. It absolutely has always struck me as a metaphor for the settling of the U.S. And given Bradbury's love for metaphor I suspect that to be the case. Given that it is still formatted as individual stories it holds together wonderfully as a singular narrative. I remember "There Will Come Soft Rains" being in my English book in junior high, though I can't remember which year. I do recall that the teacher really didn't understand the story and focused almost solely on the "house of the future" aspect as opposed to the incredibly sad story we were actually reading. She was an older lady who probably should have long since retired. Nice enough, but not the sharpest knife, well suited to teach grammar structure but woefully inadequate at literature. The ending, juxtaposing "There Will Come Soft Rains" with "The Million-Year Picnic" was a brilliant choice.
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Post by Prince Hal on Oct 25, 2018 17:46:11 GMT -5
Slam_Bradley, I wish I could have been your classmate... or your teacher.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 25, 2018 17:51:59 GMT -5
Slam_Bradley , I wish I could have been your classmate... or your teacher. I'm pretty sure you're not old enough to have taught me. But I would have loved that class. My high school had a one semester class called "Fantasy Lit" that was focused on SF and fantasy reading. The teacher didn't let me take the class because she knew that I'd already read the entire curriculum (I know that it included The Hobbit, The Caves of Steel and Frankenstein). I didn't really begrudge her because she was one of my favorite teachers and she let me slide in English Lit when we were reading stuff I didn't like. I kicked ass at Beowulf and Shakespeare, but Pride and Prejudice...not so much.
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Post by Prince Hal on Oct 25, 2018 22:07:33 GMT -5
Slam_Bradley , I wish I could have been your classmate... or your teacher. I'm pretty sure you're not old enough to have taught me. But I would have loved that class. My high school had a one semester class called "Fantasy Lit" that was focused on SF and fantasy reading. The teacher didn't let me take the class because she knew that I'd already read the entire curriculum (I know that it included The Hobbit, The Caves of Steel and Frankenstein). I didn't really begrudge her because she was one of my favorite teachers and she let me slide in English Lit when we were reading stuff I didn't like. I kicked ass at Beowulf and Shakespeare, but Pride and Prejudice...not so much. Nice of you to say, Slam, but when you start teaching right out of college, there ain't too many years between you and your students. I first taught in 1975-76 and had a couple of senior classes. That bunch is now turning 60. I also had three junior classes, and in one of the latter, I had a transfer kid who'd done a hitch in the Marines. He was 20 and I didn't turn 22 until May of '76. I was more of a Beowulf/ Shakespeare guy, too. I respect Pride and Prejudice, but I don't love it. At the risk of repeating myself, I taught Bradbury's Something Wicked to ninth graders at least 20 times, almost everyone of those times during October. Even got a few other teachers to try it. It wasn't every kid's cuppa, but it was a great way to introduce so much they'd encounter later in literature: Gothic lit; the "sins of a small-town" trope; purple prose; many allusions to myth and culture; and the bildungsroman, for example. Plus as wondrous an assemblage of beautiful, obscure, esoteric vocabulary as you're likely to find outside of Joyce. In many ways it was for them what it and other Bradbury books had been for me at that age: a gateway drug to help me learn how to read for more than what lay on the surface. Just realized that I taught that book so often that used four different editions, with four different covers. The edition I first read in 1967:
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Post by wildfire2099 on Oct 26, 2018 15:28:29 GMT -5
the Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbageby Sydney Padua I'm of two minds on this... on the one hand, it's an absolutely fantastic way to dole out history... Padua's cartoons do a fantastic job illustrating her points, be it an historical fact she wants to share, or a bit of satire on today's world. The research is a triumph of using google, really. I'd love to see others use a similar method to tackle other historical topics. On the other hand, there's not much in the 'thrilling adventures' category... mostly it's just Ms. Padua having famous people visit Lovelace and Babbage as a starting point to tell us stuff. While there are some great steampunk-ish designs of both the difference engine and a few other random things.. calling this a 'novel' or a 'story' is not really correct. It's a series of anecdotes, really. If that sounds like your cup of tea, and you want to be greatly amused while leaning a bit about some underrated historical figures, this is definitely the book for you.
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Post by berkley on Oct 27, 2018 0:48:21 GMT -5
Woke up early unable to sleep so finished of my latest book reading: 1812: The War That Forged a Nation by Walter R. Borneman. This small "war" occurring between the American Revolution and the Civil War was a unifying point in history setting the stage for expansion into the west. This is a place in time when America was developing as a nation and finding it's courage and strength. An easily readable book without feeling stuffy or full of fact filled boring diatribes. An enjoyable adventure which tells in short vignettes many of the characters and incidents with plenty of land and sea battles. This book helps to humanize the combatants and provide insights of the heroes and villains involved while summarizing this time of growth for the US. If you are curious and want to know more this one will help fill that void for you! That's on my list of books to read. Which does not mean I'll live long enough to read it. I should read something on that war one of these days since it's related to Canadian history as well, even though it took place a few decades before Canada existed as a nation. Is there any reason why that's the particular one you're interested in? I'm assuming there have been more than a few histories written of the War of 1812.
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