Re: Can you let me know what you think of 1776?
snoopcester Send a noteboard - 11/01/2010 11:29:22 AM
1. 1776, by David McCollough
I've been meaning to read something about the formation of the USA, and somebody recommended this to me. But the wikipedia article says it's very military and largely ignores the politics, which is pretty much the opposite of what I'm looking for. Could I have your thoughts when you've read it?
I would agree with wikipedia - the book is really centred around the war rather than the politics surrounding it.
*MySmiley*
Robert Graves "There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money, either."
Henning Mankell "We must defend the open society, because if we start locking our doors, if we let fear decide, the person who committed the act of terror will win"
Robert Graves "There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money, either."
Henning Mankell "We must defend the open society, because if we start locking our doors, if we let fear decide, the person who committed the act of terror will win"
Well, if Tim can post his planned reads for 2010, so can I.
- 11/01/2010 02:34:47 AM
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I doubt it quite the same ways that book seems to have for you 
- 11/01/2010 03:43:37 AM
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- 11/01/2010 03:43:37 AM
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"Invitation to a Beheading" is the translated title *NM*
- 11/01/2010 03:55:06 AM
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Ah, I was wondering if it might be that one (obviously, I know very little Russian)
- 11/01/2010 04:04:14 AM
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I liked 1776.
- 11/01/2010 04:00:03 AM
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Re: I liked 1776 and try The Johnstown Flood. One of my best reads for last year *NM*
- 11/01/2010 03:33:24 PM
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*NM*
The Plague might disappoint you.
- 11/01/2010 06:31:54 AM
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I was suspecting that: I studied some other Camus in school, but not that one.
- 11/01/2010 09:02:04 AM
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Well, then I'd have to buy it in French, and that gets me back to my old problem:
- 11/01/2010 01:42:35 PM
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Y'a pas de bonnes bibliothèques avec une section "Langues Étrangères" à New York?
- 11/01/2010 02:11:33 PM
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I'm too lazy to respond in French.
- 11/01/2010 02:37:41 PM
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Looks like you win. Can't find it on fnac.com either.
- 11/01/2010 02:55:10 PM
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I just can't justify buying a book I would want to keep in paperback.
- 11/01/2010 03:53:06 PM
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I would have thought "it's not available in hardback" was a good justification... *NM*
- 11/01/2010 03:55:56 PM
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Not for a book that I am sure is in hardcover somewhere...
- 11/01/2010 03:59:08 PM
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Are you sure it's in hardcover somewhere? *NM*
- 11/01/2010 04:00:54 PM
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It's a classic. How could it not be?
- 11/01/2010 04:03:07 PM
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Why would one do a new edition of a book that old - and that short - in hardcover?
- 11/01/2010 05:00:04 PM
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Because it's a classic.
- 11/01/2010 05:06:51 PM
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Book culture is different in France.
- 12/01/2010 07:06:17 PM
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That's so sad!
- 12/01/2010 11:27:37 PM
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Can you let me know what you think of 1776?
- 11/01/2010 09:13:58 AM
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Re: Can you let me know what you think of 1776?
- 11/01/2010 11:29:22 AM
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Oh, and regarding another of your points
- 11/01/2010 02:49:26 PM
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Re: Well, if Tim can post his planned reads for 2010, so can I.
- 11/01/2010 11:32:53 AM
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I have a lot more on my "to read one day" list, but I don't want to read them all in one year. 
- 11/01/2010 01:46:59 PM
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- 11/01/2010 01:46:59 PM
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I assumed you would have... I just didn't have anything more interesting to say *NM*
- 11/01/2010 02:59:30 PM
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*NM*
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