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my name is Matt
Do you have any other settings except I'm an expert because I'm in a MA program in history? You seem to mention it often.
Since you care, I have formal education much beyond a masters degree, and I've given presentations about 1900-1920s history at conferences, and have written works on the matter. I don't like to bring this sort of thing up because this doesn't make me a expert, and in fact doing so should make everyone think more critically about what I'm saying. But you seem to think that degrees or formal education mean something, so there you have it.
Perhaps you should list the works you have read, so we can judge for ourselves what you are reading? Perhaps some others here might want to read some of them, what did you think of them? Which of the 25 books that you rented from cheggs do you think are the best? Stating a number of books is less than helpful, unless you just want us to think you read a lot.
Gentlemen,
Keep the conversation civil, please.
Thank you.
GO!
I lived with a sociology professor and his wife my last two years at Amherst. Charles had a photo taken at Delphi. Margaret Mead was front and center with her staff. Charles to the side looking debonair, and Bucky Fuller standing by a column absentmindedly testing it with a finger.
When I commented on the company he kept, Charles said of Margaret, "she was a very generous woman."
Jay Dwight
Just got this from the local Library.
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That I enjoyed?
Arundhati Roy's Ministry of Utmost Happiness.
Denis Johnson's The Laughing Monsters.
David Mitchell's Utopia Avenue.
Jay Dwight
I'm halfway through Barkskins. At a point I thought it'd be all downhill from there because I mean what else could happen and then I read the next chapter and it's like oh wow it just keeps coming. I'm enjoying it hugely.
Notes on Blindness: A Journey Through the Dark
its just great ! i would totally recommend reading it many times :D its one of my all times favorites
can you pass the hard color blind test ? some people cannot and its just fine ...
Just finished The Peripheral by William Gibson. A good escape. A fast read. And the heroine rides a bike! An e-bike, but a bike.
Just read Say Nothing (Irish troubles) and The Snakehead (China people smuggling) both by the same author. Both were fantastic with the former being a near classic.
The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver
One of my favorite books in the last year.
The older I get the faster I was Brian Clare
Say Nothing
Patrick Radden Keefe
About the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Riveting.
Jay Dwight
Just finished- A Very Stable Genius- Donald Trump's Testing of America, by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig (Washing Post reporters)
Just started (Cycling related) - The Rodchenkov Affair-How I Brought Down Putin's Secret Doping Empire, by Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov. Rodchenkov ran the Soviet athletic doping program. After it was exposed during the Sochi Olympics, his life was threatened in typical obtuse, Soviet fashion. He abandoned his family and fled to the U.S. Here he tells the story.
The Andrew Roberts Napoleon bio is off the charts.
I'm was on an ancients reading kick.
John Barton "History of the Bible" 200bc?-200ad?
Thucydides "Peloponnesian War" 431bc
Andrew George "The Epic of Gilgamesh" 2000bc
After following Barton thru the several mazes worth
of who wrote what when, maybe.
Thucydides is quite a surprise, 200 years before the Bible,
realpolitick is alive and well and Mr. T doesn't think much
of Mr. Homers standards of reporting in the Trojan War.
Sin-leqi-unninni is the best Babylonian writer you have never
heard of.
I read this and can recommend it without reservation:
A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War, by Victor Davis Hanson.
What this book focuses on is actually what the two sides did to each other. Chapters are entitled, Hoplite warfare, Plague, etc.
I'd seen the battle armor in the Metropolitan Museum, which looked to be for a child. Why? The average Athenian weighed about 130 lbs. Hoplite battles lasted a matter of minutes and had a pretty set mortality rate. The money spent on triremes that went to the bottom in droves would have built multiple Acropolis.
War has never been more brutal or mindless.
Jay Dwight
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