Reply to: What to read?

[DS23]

I'm feeling decidedly un-intellectual at this point. Most of my reading at the moment consists of Thomas the Tank Engine, Bob the Builder, etc.

nope - that is required reading for this playground.

[bobhope]

I'm feeling decidedly un-intellectual at this point. Most of my reading at the moment consists of Thomas the Tank Engine, Bob the Builder, etc.

[thunderlizard]

Delillo

White Noise is better, but I know what you mean.

[sasguru]

Tch, that is one book where the editor should have done quite a bit more work.

Cutting anything out would make it a different book.

[threaded]

Underworld - Don DeLillo

Probably the best American novel of the 20th Century.

Tch, that is one book where the editor should have done quite a bit more work.

[HankWangford]

Lucy - Book of the year

[sasguru]

Underworld - Don DeLillo

Probably the best American novel of the 20th Century.

[The Lone Gunman]

Prof - make sure you don't mention that the last person is the little girl he killed in Nam... wouldn't want to ruin it for them

Nasty man.

[hattra]

Totally agree Hattra! Have you read the whole set?

Three times

[Ruprect]

Try "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" by Mitch Albom - cracking little book. It's food for the soul.

Prof - make sure you don't mention that the last person is the little girl he killed in Nam... wouldn't want to ruin it for them

[The Professor]

Good read

Try "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" by Mitch Albom - cracking little book. It's food for the soul.

[The Lone Gunman]

Wolf of the Plains by Conn Iggulden

Finished that last week.
Enjoyed it but got a bit fed up with constant references to black eirag and salty tea.

Now reading "The Book Thief"

Fave book "When the Star Kings Die"

[Gibbon]

But treat it like the electoral propaganda it is.

Indeed, that is one of the more interesting things, not the dates of battles etc, but the political purpose and struggle between the main players.

Two thousand years ago, the human condition was very similar to the present day.

[where did my id go?]

Caesar - The Civil War
and
The Gallic Wars

But treat it like the electoral propaganda it is.

[Gibbon]

You all should read my book entitled

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

Also recommended are

Ceasar - The Civil War and The The conqueut of Gaul.
Livy - The war with Hannibal
Herodotus - The Histories.

For Fiction

Homer