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Favorite authorsJohn Le Carré, Bernard Cornwell, George MacDonald Fraser, A. B. Guthrie, Jr., John Keegan, Larry McMurtry, James M. McPherson, Edmund Sears Morgan, John Mortimer, Patrick O'Brian (Shared favorites)

About meThe current picture is my Humane Society special foxhound-mix, Pumba. I enjoy reading, reading, reading history, historical fiction, esp. British historical fiction and humor, some crime novels, spy stories, and books about the Old West.

Here are books I am currently reading and recent recommended reads:

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Making of the English Working Class (Vintage) by E.P. Thompson
The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy by David Cannadine
The Case of Comrade Tulayev (New York Review Books Classics) by Victor Serge
The Stalin Epigram: A Novel by Robert Littell
The Two-Headed Eagle: In Which Otto Prohaska Takes a Break as the Habsburg Empire's Leading U-boat Ace and Does Something Even More Thanklessly Dangerous (The Otto Prohaska Novels) by John Biggins.
Travels with Herodotus (Vintage International) by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Judgment on Deltchev by Eric Ambler

About my libraryI list all books that I have read whether I still own the book or not (or ever owned since I also include ones that I have borrowed from the library). Exception: I don't list any books that I have forgotten.

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dougwood57 reviewed, rated:
American Heroes: Profiles of Men and Women Who Shaped Early America by Edmund S. Morgan

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The First Wave: A Billy Boyle World War II Mystery (Billy Boyle Ww2 Mystery 2) by James R. Benn

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Mayhem by J. Robert Janes

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August Heat by Andrea Camilleri

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Paradise Postponed by John Mortimer

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Arctic Chill: A Thriller (Reykjavik Thriller) by Arnaldur Indridason

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I really liked your review of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It breaks my heart a little when people assume that wickedly funny and deadly serious are incompatible, and that book has so many reviews that say "cute child classic!" or "Twain had absolutely no intention to add a moral element to this story" that it is a relief to see a review that appreciates the book's worth.

posted by jlelliott at 6:56 pm (EST) on Sep 23, 2009

i,too,loved The Stalin Epigram.

posted by berthirsch at 9:58 pm (EST) on Aug 29, 2009

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posted by vieth at 6:45 am (EST) on Jul 14, 2009

Don't mention it.

P.S. You have good taste.

posted by MyLoveForAugustus at 10:58 pm (EST) on Oct 2, 2007

Oops, looks like you have it already. My bad.

posted by MyLoveForAugustus at 12:05 am (EST) on Sep 28, 2007

I didn't know if you'd see the post in the ancient history group, so I thought I would message you just in case:

The best book I have read so far (and I have read MANY Augustus books) was Augustus: A Novel by John Edward Williams.

You don't have to be a scholar of Rome to enjoy it. It is written in epistolary form. It is a series of fictional letters from different people who lived during Augustus' time along with memoir and journal excerpts. It was such an interesting way to learn even more about what people may have been like as well as Augustus. Also, John Williams' writing was beautiful; almost every letter contained a poetic passage.

posted by MyLoveForAugustus at 12:02 am (EST) on Sep 28, 2007

I have to thank you ever so much about the information regarding Manil Suri. I bought "The Death of Vishnu" shortly after having been published. I have therefore waited for a long time. I will buy "The age of Shiva" right now. Once again, thank you.
Girkner

posted by Girkner at 8:16 am (EST) on Aug 17, 2007

Hi Dougwood57--I'm an HTML dummy, but I found the instructions here easy to follow: http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.ph...

I hope this helps!

posted by DoctorRobert at 3:54 pm (EST) on May 30, 2007

dougwood57:

Thanks for your comment, and in response, I think P.G. Wodehouse is great!

I like all his characters, Wooster, Jeeves, Psmith, Mr.Mulliner, the Drones Club, etc....

While I can't say that I've read them all, I can say that I've read them *most*...

Glad to hear that you're a Biggins fan too... He doesn't get enough (or any) good press....

You may already know but it bears repeating that McBooks Press is reprinting all the Biggins' novels - including his last book, Tomorrow the World.

That's important as Tomorrow the World was printed in an infinitesmally small print run in the UK... It's a great book, but used copies (if you can find one) run into the hundreds of dollars!

Thanks, again for the comment.

mbahawk

posted by mbahawk at 8:07 pm (EST) on Feb 14, 2007

Doug, The Year of Three Battles was the first book I read by McLynn, but I thought it was quite good. He mentioned different interpretations of persons and events, and his take on things seemed thorough and extremely knowledgeable. My reaction to the works I mentioned stand in contrast to another book I recently got and read from the History Book Club, titled (I think) Queen Emma and the Vikings. That one, written by a non historian, was simplistic and poorly written, with a weak grasp of basic grammar and usage in several places and with a very simplistic take on the history. Dreadful and of no credit to the HBC.

posted by laceyvail at 8:16 am (EST) on Feb 5, 2007

Hi Dougwood, I don't know what I was thinking when I posted to you, but somehow I forgot that I also read Bryher's The Fourteenth of October, a novel about the conquest. The characters, like all of Bryher's, are unimportant folk, living on the edge of the events, but facing great changes in their world.

posted by laceyvail at 6:25 am (EST) on Jan 31, 2007

I'm intrigued by your determination to read simultaneously a non-fiction book and a fiction book on the same subject. Although I often read more than one book at a time, usually one of them is really light--a good thriller or mystery--and another a work of history or a more demanding novel. I did, however, spend most of last Christmas in 11th century England: I read 1066, The Year of Three Battles by Frank McLynn; Harold II, The Doomed Saxon King; and reread Howarth's 1066, the Year of the Conquest.

posted by laceyvail at 4:36 pm (EST) on Jan 29, 2007

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