Has anyone ever read anything by Karen Miller? I'm about 20 pages into Empress, the first book in a fantasy trilogy. I haven't yet decided whether I'm hooked enough to finish it, and it gets interestingly mixed reviews on Amazon.com.
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Give it up. Read La Chartreuse de Parme instead!! or War and Peace !
I put The Charterhouse of Parma on my library list! And I've decided to buy War and Peace with the Borders card my boss gave me for Administrative Professionals Day, as soon as I figure out which translation to get!
Read The Education of Henry Adams. He has a lot to say about how Jacksonian Democracy was bringing about the end of civilization.
(I'll use any excuse to talk about Henry Adams, but he was particularly horrified by populism.)
The new Penguin editions of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels: [link]
revisit the Bonds and cover them in a package that says, yes these are fun
Ah ha ha ha ha. Because the eleventy-millionth loving description of arcane torture inflicted upon the protagonist is fun.
(Actually, I'm sure it is, for some people.)
Read The Education of Henry Adams. He has a lot to say about how Jacksonian Democracy was bringing about the end of civilization.
I've never read this. I think I'm going to have to.
(I'll use any excuse to talk about Henry Adams, but he was particularly horrified by populism.)
The late-19th century populist movement? I'll use any excuse to talk about that, but instead of derailing conversation, I'll ask: have you read Larry Goodwyn's The Populist Moment?
I'm always gratified to see the Education up there at #1 in the Modern Library top 100 nonfiction books list.
I haven't read that, but it looks interesting. I'll add it to the list. Late 19th century American history is my special obsession.
One of the conceits of The Education of Henry Adams is that Adams is analyzing why he, the grandson and great-grandson of presidents, was not president himself. He uses that idea to talk about the shift in American politics from Eastern aristocracy to populism.
You know another guy who should have been president but bafflingly was not? Henry Clay.
Late 19th century American history is my special obsession.
I'm actually working on a novel set in the late 19th century. One of the main characters is a lecturer/recruiter for the Farmers' Alliance, which later turned into the Populist Party.
He uses that idea to talk about the shift in American politics from Eastern aristocracy to populism
Gotcha, that's the general democratic populism, not the specific populists.