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Post by kinuta on Aug 22, 2018 20:18:37 GMT -5
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Post by kinuta on Aug 24, 2018 16:44:22 GMT -5
I'm unable to use the delete and edit functions. The Power was a big let down. New dystopian feminist literature my arse. It read more like a badly written Young Adult novel. Boring one trick pony, with underdeveloped, shallow characterisation and plot. Comparisons to Margaret Atwood are ridiculous. Now reading -
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Post by JamesP on Aug 25, 2018 16:28:34 GMT -5
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Post by kinuta on Aug 27, 2018 1:48:18 GMT -5
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Post by JamesP on Aug 27, 2018 10:11:49 GMT -5
“An epically scaled new biography . . . Roberts brilliantly conveys the sheer energy and presence of Napoleon the organizational and military whirlwind who, through crisp and incessant questioning, sized up people and problems and got things done. . . . His dynamism shines in Roberts’s set-piece chapters on major battles like Austerlitz, Jena, and Marengo, turning visionary military maneuvers into politically potent moments.” —The New York Times Book Review
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Post by kinuta on Aug 28, 2018 17:48:09 GMT -5
“An epically scaled new biography . . . Roberts brilliantly conveys the sheer energy and presence of Napoleon the organizational and military whirlwind who, through crisp and incessant questioning, sized up people and problems and got things done. . . . His dynamism shines in Roberts’s set-piece chapters on major battles like Austerlitz, Jena, and Marengo, turning visionary military maneuvers into politically potent moments.” —The New York Times Book Review I've been meaning to read about Napoleon for a long time but have constantly procrastinated, waiting for something more or less definitive to come along. I've read this authors previous The Storm Of War, which was excellent and is very much recommended. This one is now on my reading list, waiting only for me to summon up enough fortitude to wade through it's considerable length. Thanks for the prompt.
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Post by billf on Aug 29, 2018 5:13:56 GMT -5
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Post by JamesP on Aug 29, 2018 7:58:35 GMT -5
I was looking through the offerings on Amazon and ran across this one that looks good. Ordering my winter reading material.
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Post by kinuta on Aug 29, 2018 16:35:48 GMT -5
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Post by jbone on Aug 30, 2018 14:29:55 GMT -5
Just finished House of Special Purpose, a Christopher Hyde fiction (based in fact) about the last czar and his family and events after their deaths about 90 years ago. Hyde is one of my go to authors. A Gathering of Saints is a true page turned set in the London Blitz, again based in fact.
Now reading Havana Bay, an Arkady Renko mystery, from Martin Cruz Smith, who has authored several with the Renko character including Gorky Park.
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Post by kinuta on Aug 31, 2018 1:49:42 GMT -5
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Post by billf on Sept 1, 2018 2:25:50 GMT -5
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Post by kinuta on Sept 4, 2018 16:40:59 GMT -5
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Post by jbone on Sept 6, 2018 7:11:50 GMT -5
John LeCarre's memoirs, The Pigeon Tunnel, Stories From My Life. A real life British spy as well as award winning novelist. I happened across a copy, an advance unedited proof-"not for sale"-at Goodwill and paid $3.50 for it. Worth every penny.
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Post by kinuta on Sept 6, 2018 23:02:51 GMT -5
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