I see you listed 4 of my favorite non-fiction, so I will forgive your listing WoT
Tom Send a noteboard - 26/01/2024 12:11:04 AM
I have Massie's Nicholas and Alexandra but can't bring myself to read it because I've read so much already about them and I suspect even with Massie's brilliance it would just be needlessly repetitive. I also have Norwich's The Middle Sea but haven't read it. His Byzantium trilogy was great but his history of the popes was substandard to Eamon Duffy's.
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*
Since this was originally a book site...top ten (or so) favorite books?
- 20/01/2024 02:40:49 PM
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The million dollar question. This one, I can do.
- 21/01/2024 01:40:13 AM
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Re: The million dollar question. This one, I can do.
- 21/01/2024 02:27:32 AM
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'favorite' vs 'best' book
- 22/01/2024 02:17:12 PM
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I interpreted this to mean best books we've read
- 22/01/2024 02:59:20 PM
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I wasn't qualifying it based on quality, or else it never would have made an honorable mention 
- 23/01/2024 06:22:26 AM
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- 23/01/2024 06:22:26 AM
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I haven't read Go Set a Watchman, but what I've heard was... bad. Is it actually good?
- 23/01/2024 05:27:31 PM
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I loved it because it tore my childhood hero to shreds in a way that I needed to see.
- 23/01/2024 08:34:54 PM
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I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that's why other people hated it, then.
- 23/01/2024 09:23:53 PM
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- 23/01/2024 09:23:53 PM
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I need to split fiction and non-fiction
- 22/01/2024 02:02:41 AM
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Re: I need to split fiction and non-fiction
- 22/01/2024 03:20:03 PM
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Cooper's DARK IS RISING and Jones' HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE would make my top 20 for sure.
- 23/01/2024 06:26:38 AM
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Favorite Books. I too need to split between Fiction and Non-Fiction
- 22/01/2024 01:59:19 PM
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I loved SHOGUN so much as a teenager. No idea how it would hold up on a read today.
- 23/01/2024 06:24:08 AM
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Same - and that also goes for Mists of Avalon. Even aside from the MZB ickiness. *NM*
- 23/01/2024 05:29:02 PM
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Speaking of Shogun...
- 23/01/2024 12:43:04 PM
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Re: Speaking of Shogun...
- 23/01/2024 08:51:01 PM
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Re: Speaking of Shogun...
- 23/01/2024 09:39:50 PM
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At the moment these
- 22/01/2024 05:59:14 PM
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Ah, I forgot Wolfe. BOOK OF THE NEW SUN might be on my top ten. I need to reread it. *NM*
- 23/01/2024 06:27:34 AM
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All y'all are cheating by listing a series as one of your favorite books.
- 25/01/2024 04:38:56 AM
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As I create my own list, I see I've made a mistake in my derision of the use of series. *NM*
- 25/01/2024 05:04:43 AM
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*NM*
FALSE!
- 25/01/2024 02:48:27 PM
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Re: FALSE!
- 25/01/2024 04:20:08 PM
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OMFG! This was so difficult.
- 25/01/2024 08:20:05 PM
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Sir!
- 25/01/2024 08:30:18 PM
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I see you listed 4 of my favorite non-fiction, so I will forgive your listing WoT
- 26/01/2024 12:11:04 AM
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So many Novik fans! I think you've tipped me over onto reading Temeraire. *NM*
- 26/01/2024 06:59:57 AM
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