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Cushla - I haven't read Ten Days that shook the world even though I've owned a copy for ages. Warren Beatty's movie Reds is based on his life. #142 Kerry, I have Ten Days that Shook the World - picked it up at the DCM secondhand book fair here. The intro is by Lenin! ... and was first published in 1914. I haven't read it in years but I really enjoyed it at the time. He went on to write Ten Days that shook the world, by then he was a committed socialist. ... A History of Wales, so now I have a decision to make: at the moment it's a toss-up between The Last Grain Race and Ten Days that Shook the World, or possibly Schindler's Ark, or maybe The Once and Future King. Hm decisions, decisions.
>28 Belemnite, how are you finding Land of My ... Ten Days that Shook the World
by John Reed ...
Rackham, Oliver: History of the English Countryside in slight preference to WG Hoskins's Making of the English Landscape
Reed, John: Ten Days that Shook the World
Roberts, JM: History of the World
Rodger NAM: The Command of the Ocean
Runciman, Stephen: History of the Crusades
Russel ... Finished Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed. His reportage of the Russian Revolution, from Petrograd, is very readable. The verbatim transcriptions of revolutionary posters and proclamations less so. The language used in the speeches rings particularly hollow after the horrors of St ... ... the Otter by Henry Williamson tonight. Then it is on to John Reed's popular account of the Russian Revolution, Ten Days That Shook the World. ... movie)
JAWS (ditto--Benchley is one of the worst authors ever)
A SCANNER DARKLY (no one has done Phil Dick better)
TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD (bit of a stretch but it factored into one of my faves, "Reds")
FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS (utterly faithful adaptation of HST's ... "The German kaiser, covered with the blood of millions of dead people, wants to push his army against Petrograd."
Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed ... Churchill: My Early Life (Grandpa)
Travels with My Aunt (Grandma)
The Secret Garden (Mum)
Woodbrook (Dad)
Ten Days That Shook The World (Bestfriend)
Folio 60 (Because I'm scared it might sell out)
Boy does this list envoke the guilt. ... named John Reed is an LT author and LT thinks I have his books in my library, but since the only John Reed book I have is Ten Days That Shook The World, an account of the Russian Revolution written by a guy so old he is buried next to Stalin (!!), I don't think he is actually the same John Reed ... Lucy gets her life back by Stef Ann Holm
Dixie Rising by Peter Applebome
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
The Classic Ten by Nancy Macdonnell Smith
Weremones by Buffi BeCraft-Woodaff
Girls Guide to Witchcraft by Mindy Klaskey
The Ladies of Garrison Gardens by L ... And I just realized that the tag 'read', which I use to indicate books that I've read {red} could be used to tag books that one plans to read {reed}. So, don't be surprised when someone combines 'read' with 'TBR', which could lead to combining 'read' with 'unread'!
And, RE: #48, your comment ... ... of the Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
8. Eight Cousins, Louisa May Alcott
9. Nine Stories, J.D. Salinger
10. Ten Days That Shook the World, John Reed
12. Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish, Richard Flanagan
13. Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis, ... ... people with books by John Reed! You appear to share your book with two other people, while the journalist who wrote Ten Days that Shook the World is represented in the libraries of more than one hundred.
Unfortunately, LT has not yet solved the problem of authors who share a name. Ree ... ... do they do it? yesterday was a national holiday here and the mail always piles up a bit after one of those)
I badly want Ten Days that Shook the World because my only copy belonged to my grandfather and is in portuguese. Both things I have nothing but fondness for (though I don't trust the ...
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