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<blockquote data-quote="Jedidiah" data-source="post: 1932704" data-attributes="member: 25575"><p>Well I was half way through <strong>The Brothers Karamozov</strong> by Dostoevsky when Christmas came. Got Tad Williams Shadowmarch so I started that. Also got <strong>The Reformation </strong> by Diarmaid MacCulloch so that's next. Then I'll go back and finish the brothers. </p><p></p><p>Since it's the end of the year, here are a few of the best books I read this year (sorry for you history haters but I didn't read a lot of fiction this year other than Moby Dick (my all time favorite) and Tad Williams' The War of the Flowers (nice to read a one volume fantasy book!):</p><p></p><p><strong>An Army at Dawn</strong> by Rick Atkinson (history of the US army in North Africa during WWII)</p><p><strong>One Vast Winter Count:The Native American West Before Lewis and Clark</strong> by Colin Calloway</p><p><strong>Monster of God</strong> by David Quamman (psychology of living with man eaters)</p><p><strong>The Peloponnesian War</strong> by Donald Kagan</p><p><strong>A History of Britain</strong> (Vols I, II, and III) by Simon Schama (my favorite history writer - if you haven't read his bio of Rembrandt called <strong>Rembrandt's Eyes </strong> then shame on you).</p><p><strong>Art: A New History</strong> by Paul Johnson (good primer for non arty farties)</p><p><strong>Theology in America</strong> by E. Brooks Holifield (only for those interested in the subject)</p><p></p><p>Whew! That's alot of pages - I have been a very busy boy this year.</p><p></p><p>For those reading anything by Raymond Feist - I am very sorry. For those reading the Thomas Covenant books by Stephen R Donaldson - I am very, very sorry. The only way I know to counteract the unbelievably poor prose written by those authors (and I use that term in its loosest sense) is to read something really good. Go out and get The Three Musketeers by Dumas or if you want something contemporary get any set of short stories by Harlan Ellison.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jedidiah, post: 1932704, member: 25575"] Well I was half way through [B]The Brothers Karamozov[/B] by Dostoevsky when Christmas came. Got Tad Williams Shadowmarch so I started that. Also got [B]The Reformation [/B] by Diarmaid MacCulloch so that's next. Then I'll go back and finish the brothers. Since it's the end of the year, here are a few of the best books I read this year (sorry for you history haters but I didn't read a lot of fiction this year other than Moby Dick (my all time favorite) and Tad Williams' The War of the Flowers (nice to read a one volume fantasy book!): [B]An Army at Dawn[/B] by Rick Atkinson (history of the US army in North Africa during WWII) [B]One Vast Winter Count:The Native American West Before Lewis and Clark[/B] by Colin Calloway [B]Monster of God[/B] by David Quamman (psychology of living with man eaters) [B]The Peloponnesian War[/B] by Donald Kagan [B]A History of Britain[/B] (Vols I, II, and III) by Simon Schama (my favorite history writer - if you haven't read his bio of Rembrandt called [B]Rembrandt's Eyes [/B] then shame on you). [B]Art: A New History[/B] by Paul Johnson (good primer for non arty farties) [B]Theology in America[/B] by E. Brooks Holifield (only for those interested in the subject) Whew! That's alot of pages - I have been a very busy boy this year. For those reading anything by Raymond Feist - I am very sorry. For those reading the Thomas Covenant books by Stephen R Donaldson - I am very, very sorry. The only way I know to counteract the unbelievably poor prose written by those authors (and I use that term in its loosest sense) is to read something really good. Go out and get The Three Musketeers by Dumas or if you want something contemporary get any set of short stories by Harlan Ellison. [/QUOTE]
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