[March 2016]: What are you reading?
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Deuce Traveler
Adventurer
Neil Gaiman is always fun. Just finished "Cryptonomicon" from Neal Stephenson. I'm about to start "The Sleepwalkers."
"The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 is historian Christopher Clark’s riveting account of the explosive beginnings of World War I.
Drawing on new scholarship, Clark offers a fresh look at World War I, focusing not on the battles and atrocities of the war itself, but on the complex events and relationships that led a group of well-meaning leaders into brutal conflict.
Clark traces the paths to war in a minute-by-minute, action-packed narrative that cuts between the key decision centers in Vienna, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Paris, London, and Belgrade, and examines the decades of history that informed the events of 1914 and details the mutual misunderstandings and unintended signals that drove the crisis forward in a few short weeks."
"The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 is historian Christopher Clark’s riveting account of the explosive beginnings of World War I.
Drawing on new scholarship, Clark offers a fresh look at World War I, focusing not on the battles and atrocities of the war itself, but on the complex events and relationships that led a group of well-meaning leaders into brutal conflict.
Clark traces the paths to war in a minute-by-minute, action-packed narrative that cuts between the key decision centers in Vienna, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Paris, London, and Belgrade, and examines the decades of history that informed the events of 1914 and details the mutual misunderstandings and unintended signals that drove the crisis forward in a few short weeks."
delericho
Legend
That sounds like a good read.
Nellisir
Hero
I've got Brideshead Revisited on a shelf to be read. I think I'll go find it.
I just started City of Stairs, the book before City of Blades. I think Robert Bennett Jackson should be better known than he is. His writing is excellent and he seems pretty cool, judging by his blog.
I got Blue Remembered Earth from the library to read afterwards.
Edit: Finished City of Stairs. 5/5. I found Brideshead Revisited, so will give that a whirl.
I just started City of Stairs, the book before City of Blades. I think Robert Bennett Jackson should be better known than he is. His writing is excellent and he seems pretty cool, judging by his blog.
I got Blue Remembered Earth from the library to read afterwards.
Edit: Finished City of Stairs. 5/5. I found Brideshead Revisited, so will give that a whirl.
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Ah, that's one of my favorite novels! How did you like it?
Deuce Traveler
Adventurer
I liked it, but I didn't quite understand why Randy was so hero-worshipped at the end. It was a shared endeavor by Randy and his co-workers, but the ending makes it sound as if only he was so recognized. He did do a lot of heroic things, but there is no way the outside world would have learned about his main contributions, since he would have been imprisoned for those things if revealed.
Ralif Redhammer
Legend
Oops, posted this in the wrong month...
Finished Ender’s Game. I’ve got mixed feelings about the book, but I enjoyed it. Next up is the Ballad of Black Tom novella.
Finished Ender’s Game. I’ve got mixed feelings about the book, but I enjoyed it. Next up is the Ballad of Black Tom novella.
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