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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 4801508" data-attributes="member: 54707">It's hard to go wrong with Doc.Ah, to be a kid again. I remember how Doc was always exciting to read. Made me laugh.Non-FictionBlackwater - about the Blackwater organizationThe Sheriff of Ramadi - an excellent book about how to fight a war to the advantage of everyone except the terroristsFictionEnemies and Allies - this book about Batman meeting Superman during the Eisenhower administration and the Cold War was actually truly good. The chapters were more like kiddie-book chapters, or formatless script scenes, but the guy was actually a decent writer. He threw in references I'm not sure a lot of people nowadays would even know or remember. And he gave the best portrait of Batman I've ever seen in a book. I think though he got some dates wrong, like using Bakelite before it was actually discovered. I'm gonna hav'ta look that up though to be sure.The Far Side of the World- Jack Aubrey - I needn't say more than that, listened to on CDThe Price of Murder, about the blind English magistrate John Fielding, excellent as always, listened to on CDThe Mammoth Book of Fairy TalesLiteratureRemembrance of Things Past, Proust - I'll be honest, this book reminds me overmuch in some respects of the sappy and physically vital-less image I have of most of modern Europe. All emotion and life of the mind, absorbed in the past, sentimentally and personally self-obsessed, rather than actually doing anything about anything. Just yak, yak, yak, and memories of a time when they actually had people willing to act. But the guy sure could write, technically he's almost as good as Hugo or even Tolstoy. He can make a sentence go on for a whole page though, but I can't fault him for that. Back then people could actually write a real and interesting sentence.Lecture (listened to on CD)Just about finished up Shutt's Odyssey of the West: From Athens to Rome and the Gospels. Shutt wasn't the only professor who lectured, but the whole thing was good for the most part.</blockquote>

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