Monday, June 06, 2005
FAVORITE READING
I see that while my car hasn't yet been, I've been "tagged" in another way. Rachel has told us hers, so I must now attempt to do my part. Here we go:
1. Total Number of Books I Own:
I have not the faintest idea. But I do know that they take up the better part of an entire study, in about half a dozen floor to ceiling bookcases. And I've still got quite a few at my parents' house. Good people that they are, they haven't bothered to throw out even my "Intro to Accounting" textbook from back in 1983. I do promise someday it (and others like it) will indeed go...
2. The Last Book I Bought:
"Sir John Moore", by Carola Oman, in a second hand bookshop on St Mary's in the Isles of Scilly. Yes, I'm pathetic at times.
3.The Last Book I Read:
"Zhukov", by John Colvin. The man believed simply that heavy weaponry and blowing your enemy into the afterlife was the surest way to achieve victory. We haven't got a chance to do that today. Still, daydreaming is nice now and then.
4. Five Books That Mean a Lot to Me:
"History of the Peloponnesian War", by an EXTREMELY long dead guy. It is the first book of history/political science. So, if one claims to be either an historian or a political scientist, you really do have to put Marx and the post-"whatever" fad of the moment down for a few days and read this.
"The Life of Johnson". One of the best ways to enjoy this is just open it and start reading at any point.
"The Three Musketeers". When you read the original, you'll realize immediately why the story has so long endured: It's very good.
"Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation", by Merrill Peterson. Still the best one volume on our third president. I can read it over and over.
"Enemy At The Gates", by William Craig. Reprinted many times since it was first published over thirty years ago, I believe this was probably one of the first honestly grown up books I ever read. (I was probably about 11 or 12 at the time.) It's been superseded to some extent by Antony Beevor's recent effort. But Craig broke the ground, and Beevor owes Craig a great deal.
Hmmm. Since directed to do so, may I be so bold as to ask five other people to take a moment and share with us their answers to those questions?. . .
. . . but only if you want to! . . . Debbye, Murdoc, Scott, Erik and Stefy. ¶ by Robert, Monday, June 06, 2005
I see that while my car hasn't yet been, I've been "tagged" in another way. Rachel has told us hers, so I must now attempt to do my part. Here we go:
1. Total Number of Books I Own:
I have not the faintest idea. But I do know that they take up the better part of an entire study, in about half a dozen floor to ceiling bookcases. And I've still got quite a few at my parents' house. Good people that they are, they haven't bothered to throw out even my "Intro to Accounting" textbook from back in 1983. I do promise someday it (and others like it) will indeed go...
2. The Last Book I Bought:
"Sir John Moore", by Carola Oman, in a second hand bookshop on St Mary's in the Isles of Scilly. Yes, I'm pathetic at times.
3.The Last Book I Read:
"Zhukov", by John Colvin. The man believed simply that heavy weaponry and blowing your enemy into the afterlife was the surest way to achieve victory. We haven't got a chance to do that today. Still, daydreaming is nice now and then.
4. Five Books That Mean a Lot to Me:
"History of the Peloponnesian War", by an EXTREMELY long dead guy. It is the first book of history/political science. So, if one claims to be either an historian or a political scientist, you really do have to put Marx and the post-"whatever" fad of the moment down for a few days and read this.
"The Life of Johnson". One of the best ways to enjoy this is just open it and start reading at any point.
"The Three Musketeers". When you read the original, you'll realize immediately why the story has so long endured: It's very good.
"Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation", by Merrill Peterson. Still the best one volume on our third president. I can read it over and over.
"Enemy At The Gates", by William Craig. Reprinted many times since it was first published over thirty years ago, I believe this was probably one of the first honestly grown up books I ever read. (I was probably about 11 or 12 at the time.) It's been superseded to some extent by Antony Beevor's recent effort. But Craig broke the ground, and Beevor owes Craig a great deal.
Hmmm. Since directed to do so, may I be so bold as to ask five other people to take a moment and share with us their answers to those questions?. . .
. . . but only if you want to! . . . Debbye, Murdoc, Scott, Erik and Stefy. ¶ by Robert, Monday, June 06, 2005
