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This I may check out. It seems that everything I read is technical nowadays and it really takes away from the imagination and enjoyment. I read Huck Finn many moons ago and this seems to be a good start...suwon fish wrote:I am also working on a Mark Twain.
His real life adventures and travels as a young man. It's not as polished as his fiction but it's a great read nonetheless.
If you've got an ebook it's free here...
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3177
suwon fish wrote:I am also working on a Mark Twain.
His real life adventures and travels as a young man. It's not as polished as his fiction but it's a great read nonetheless.
If you've got an ebook it's free here...
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3177
suwon fish wrote:
This book is the intertwined narratives of 3 UN staff. The book covers their work in Cambodia, Rwanda, Haiti, Somalia and Bosnia.
It's the story of tiny victories (and as many defeats) under almost impossible conditions. It's a bloody good read.
Hitoru wrote:suwon fish wrote:I am also working on a Mark Twain.
His real life adventures and travels as a young man. It's not as polished as his fiction but it's a great read nonetheless.
If you've got an ebook it's free here...
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3177
friendlyskies wrote:I just finished "The Memoirs of Cleopatra" by Margaret George (worthwhile English-language books are tough to get down here, and a friend with good taste highly recommended it against my better judgement), and it really was excellent!
Basically Cleopatra's point of view about everything that went on between Julius Caesar and Augustus Caesar, and the author was good enough to include a breakdown of what was historic (with sources) and what she added for literary flow. For instance, I always assumed the carpet thing with Julius Caesar was Shakespearian (it's really historic), while I thought Cleopatra's betrayal of Marc Antony's forces in the final "battle" of Alexandria was historic (nope, it was wartime propaganda from Agustus Caesar echoed by Shakespeare, there's no evidence she went over to Augustus' side, or that Antony ever thought so).
More of a chick book though, considering that the subject and author were both female. And it's fattened up with lots of (historic) information on what was served for dinner, where her outfits came from, what kinds of perfumes were used, etc - all that was recorded by palace scribes, sure, but I could have done with about 80% of it edited out.
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