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I'm rarely reading anything these days, but for about 15-30 minutes a night most nights, I've been reading the Folio Society edition of John Julius Norwich's three-volume history, Byzantium. The Eastern Roman Empire has fascinated me ever since I was a child (although I really don't know why I didn't choose to go into that subfield in college, considering this said fascination) and Norwich's books (I read an abridged one-volume edition about 3-4 years ago and enjoyed that greatly) read like an updated 19th-early 20th century approach to writing histories. I can tell there are certain narrative "blind spots," but Norwich's ability to tell a story within historia more than compensates for these minor faults.
I'm rarely reading anything these days, but for about 15-30 minutes a night most nights, I've been reading the Folio Society edition of John Julius Norwich's three-volume history, Byzantium. The Eastern Roman Empire has fascinated me ever since I was a child (although I really don't know why I didn't choose to go into that subfield in college, considering this said fascination) and Norwich's books (I read an abridged one-volume edition about 3-4 years ago and enjoyed that greatly) read like an updated 19th-early 20th century approach to writing histories. I can tell there are certain narrative "blind spots," but Norwich's ability to tell a story within historia more than compensates for these minor faults.
But what about you? What are you reading/attempting to read/procrastinating reading now?
Ah to read that trilogy again. It was amazing.
I am currently reading Tai Pan by James Clavell. I've read his Shogun so it seemed like something I would enjoy. So far so good.
Since it's been ages it seems, what are you reading now?
- 24/06/2017 02:52:02 AM
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When I'm not reading bar prep materials, I'm reading Russell's HISTORY OF WESTERN PHILOSOPHY.
- 24/06/2017 04:26:44 AM
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Such a provincial attitude to have, but sadly a common one back then
- 25/06/2017 01:30:48 AM
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It's a shame. The ERE/Byzantine Empire is criminally underappreciated, even now.
- 25/06/2017 02:35:53 AM
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Roth's Radetzky March, Thomas Sowell's Economic Facts & Fallacies; Gav Thorpe's Corax
- 24/06/2017 04:36:38 PM
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Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens and Michel Houellebecq's Submission
- 24/06/2017 08:25:51 PM
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Would be interested to hear your take on both of those after you're done.
- 24/06/2017 08:32:54 PM
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Re: Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens and Michel Houellebecq's Submission
- 25/06/2017 01:42:40 AM
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Keri Hulme - The Bone People. Really enjoying it.
- 24/06/2017 08:35:01 PM
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Just bought a shit-load of Kindle books that I'd been wanting to read for a while
- 25/06/2017 08:32:16 AM
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Next on the list is The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. *NM*
- 25/06/2017 06:33:40 PM
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Oooh. I plan on reading this too sometime during the summer. *NM*
- 26/06/2017 01:15:50 PM
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His footnotes in that trilogy are amazing.
- 26/06/2017 01:14:33 PM
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Noble House is the best of those, that I've read.
- 26/06/2017 06:41:38 PM
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