My home stands on one of the battlefields discussed and so I was trying to find out if, from a superstition perspective, I should expect to come down to the kitchen some night for a glass of water and see a British soldier standing there looking at me. So far it's been quite disappointing. Anyway, the reason I mention this is because yes, the book is focused on the military aspects of things.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
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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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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I had skimmed a part of it previously
- 11/01/2010 01:45:20 PM
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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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- 11/01/2010 02:59:30 PM
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