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Re: great survey. Tom Send a noteboard - 15/09/2009 04:56:50 AM
By the way, I wanted to tell you that you're a very high-quality contributor to this section of our new home. The only other thing guess I could say here is, "Damn you read a lot".

I'm glad you feel that way. My goal is to write 2-3 reviews of books per month (fiction and non-fiction), and for them to be only non-fantasy/sci-fi. I want this site to take off!!!

3. What is your favorite work of non-fiction (please exclude religious/devotional works from this question)?
I don't know. I have learned a lot from so many books, I have to think. Either "Before Freedom Came" or "So Much To Be Done". The Writings and Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Thos have stuck with me for a long time. Somehow, I have not read "guns germs and steel" and it's been on my shelf forever. I saw that they've made a program about it on pbs, so I'm reading it.

Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel is an awesome book and I highly recommend it to anyone and everyone. I even gave it to my dad as a Christmas present.

7. Do you consider books about the occult to be non-fiction or fiction? Why?
Heh. Are we talking "Time Life Books: Crop Circles" type stuff here? Astrology books? defintely fiction.

There is no Time-Life book dedicated to crop circles alone. As someone who bought all 30 books of the Mysteries of the Unknown series I can guarantee this. If you like, I can provide you with the full list - they're all here in my library.

:clap: good survey.

Once again, I'm glad you liked it!!!
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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

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Non-Fiction survey Tom - 14/09/2009 05:38:04 PM 1153 Views
Heh. jh - 14/09/2009 05:58:59 PM 839 Views
You associate non-fiction with work? Are you a non-fiction book reviewer by day? Tom - 14/09/2009 06:35:59 PM 661 Views
Nah... jh - 14/09/2009 06:56:41 PM 689 Views
I like non-fiction as long as it's not preachy. Darth_Katie - 14/09/2009 06:25:42 PM 850 Views
So...Bill O'Reilly's out but Aleister Crowley is in, right? Tom - 14/09/2009 06:34:38 PM 745 Views
I didn't say I wanted to read occult books. Darth_Katie - 14/09/2009 09:40:40 PM 1292 Views
Fun. Legolas - 14/09/2009 06:31:28 PM 934 Views
Machiavelli is a good case study for translation vs. original language Tom - 14/09/2009 06:48:46 PM 691 Views
Fact not fiction. Rebekah - 14/09/2009 06:43:32 PM 876 Views
I loved Radzinsky's Rasputin bio Tom - 14/09/2009 06:58:46 PM 756 Views
Re: I loved Radzinsky's Rasputin bio Rebekah - 14/09/2009 07:10:01 PM 778 Views
You're going to force me to start a Dan Brown discussion in a different thread. Tom - 14/09/2009 09:00:32 PM 692 Views
Well, I can do it here, no worries, just think of it as non-non-fiction. jh - 14/09/2009 09:06:34 PM 750 Views
This is pretty much it. Rebekah - 14/09/2009 09:09:18 PM 752 Views
Re: Fact not fiction. Cockatiel of Doom - 17/09/2009 12:40:31 AM 795 Views
Re: Fact not fiction. Rebekah - 17/09/2009 03:08:34 PM 688 Views
Re: Fact not fiction. Cockatiel of Doom - 17/09/2009 11:57:22 PM 646 Views
Re: Non-Fiction survey mapthis - 14/09/2009 07:25:20 PM 682 Views
Legacy of Ashes sounds interesting Tom - 14/09/2009 08:59:38 PM 706 Views
Re: Legacy of Ashes sounds interesting mapthis - 14/09/2009 09:09:30 PM 701 Views
So nossy - 14/09/2009 10:14:47 PM 669 Views
Re: So mapthis - 14/09/2009 10:35:40 PM 654 Views
I do read sometimes. Craig - 14/09/2009 08:01:03 PM 884 Views
If you liked Jesus, Interrupted... Tom - 14/09/2009 08:58:26 PM 742 Views
Added to The List. *NM* Craig - 14/09/2009 10:28:14 PM 309 Views
I read it quite a lot, obviously. Camilla - 14/09/2009 09:20:40 PM 773 Views
I have Antonia Fraser's bio of Oliver Cromwell. Tom - 15/09/2009 05:14:06 AM 721 Views
Re: I have Antonia Fraser's bio of Oliver Cromwell. Camilla - 15/09/2009 08:07:28 AM 776 Views
Re: Non-Fiction survey random thoughts - 14/09/2009 09:24:35 PM 889 Views
I'd be interested to know the title of that Lincoln book. *NM* Tom - 15/09/2009 05:11:14 AM 338 Views
Tried by War by James M. McPherson random thoughts - 15/09/2009 07:01:30 PM 755 Views
Thanks! *NM* Tom - 17/09/2009 03:07:50 PM 348 Views
Re: Non-Fiction survey ranagrande - 14/09/2009 10:05:56 PM 683 Views
I'm sorry. I just can't take "pro wrestling" seriously enough to comment on it beyond this. *NM* Tom - 15/09/2009 05:15:13 AM 328 Views
What, pro wrestling is awesome! ranagrande - 16/09/2009 05:59:44 PM 910 Views
Sweet nossy - 14/09/2009 10:09:21 PM 845 Views
My problem with Fisk is his naivete Tom - 15/09/2009 05:10:00 AM 733 Views
If you're referring to the passages I think you're referring to... Legolas - 15/09/2009 11:06:04 AM 836 Views
I need to read more American Indian books random thoughts - 16/09/2009 07:01:21 PM 690 Views
Good survey! smaug - 14/09/2009 11:40:58 PM 829 Views
Ah...but where do you draw the line on the occult? Tom - 15/09/2009 05:07:14 AM 673 Views
Intent. Craig - 15/09/2009 06:02:39 AM 706 Views
Yea, I would tend to agree. smaug - 15/09/2009 11:10:03 AM 734 Views
Re: Non-Fiction survey Chas - 15/09/2009 12:25:57 AM 725 Views
You should consider reading more non-fiction. *NM* Tom - 15/09/2009 05:04:55 AM 359 Views
It's under consideration. Chas - 15/09/2009 11:50:47 PM 596 Views
I read a lot of it for my classes, so I read very little of it for leisure. Ghavrel - 15/09/2009 12:46:23 AM 771 Views
As someone who read Ab Urbe Condita in Latin...the book you reference "delenda est". Tom - 15/09/2009 05:04:05 AM 703 Views
It's infuriating, yes. *NM* Ghavrel - 15/09/2009 06:22:36 PM 334 Views
Mea culpa; the book in question is Zoch's Ancient Rome. Ghavrel - 15/09/2009 06:45:22 PM 634 Views
Re: Non-Fiction survey Vodalus - 15/09/2009 01:07:13 AM 752 Views
I did a survey about personal libraries, too... Tom - 15/09/2009 05:01:12 AM 715 Views
great survey. Avendesora - 15/09/2009 02:17:26 AM 900 Views
Re: great survey. Tom - 15/09/2009 04:56:50 AM 747 Views
Interesting questions! Sophy - 15/09/2009 07:20:05 AM 843 Views
I'm not sure if it's a translation issue, but Tom - 17/09/2009 03:10:49 PM 790 Views
That's the English titel yes! Sophy - 18/09/2009 07:03:45 AM 974 Views
Re: Non-Fiction survey Jonielle - 15/09/2009 11:35:48 AM 936 Views
Try reading something new you think you'd like and post a review! *NM* Tom - 17/09/2009 03:11:47 PM 294 Views
Books on Napoleon.... Napoleon62 - 15/09/2009 08:03:55 PM 725 Views
Narcissist. *NM* Craig - 15/09/2009 08:21:44 PM 300 Views
David Chandler's The Campaigns of Napoleon is wonderful. *NM* Tom - 17/09/2009 03:13:03 PM 294 Views
i like non-fiction! temeraire - 15/09/2009 09:40:40 PM 772 Views
Lots of people have recommended The Omnivore's Dilemma to me *NM* Tom - 17/09/2009 03:14:09 PM 343 Views
Re: Non-Fiction survey Cockatiel of Doom - 17/09/2009 12:49:35 AM 975 Views
Re: Non-Fiction survey ajah - 26/09/2009 01:49:16 AM 757 Views
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