Best book you have read lately
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Read Neptune’s Inferno recently about the US Navy Guadalcanal campaign in 1942.
Great read, brutal campaign with massive losses on both sides.
Great read, brutal campaign with massive losses on both sides.
Spying on the south...Tony Horwitz
All of his books are very good including the modern classic Confederates in the attic.
All of his books are very good including the modern classic Confederates in the attic.
Churchill has always been fascinating to me. Does it focus on his political career from the beginning or pick up during the World Wars? The Gary Oldman movie Darkest Hour was excellent.
It covers his entire life and provides quite a few examples of why he was destined for the job of PM in WWII, and was exactly the right man, in the right place, at the right time. Andrew Roberts is an excellent historian that weaves a great story.
I liked Darkest Hour a lot, but I was honestly a little disappointed in the movie after having read the Roberts book.
I would also highly recommend Roberts' Storm of War, which is his one volume history of the War in Europe in WWII, which came out a few years back. .
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Finished Blood Meridian. Liked it, didn’t love it the way I did No Country and All the Pretty Horses. Just started Killers of the Flower Moon. Man, I knew little to nothing about the subject but what an utter fascinating insanity filled chapter of Oklahoma history.
I wasn’t a huge fan of Blood Meridian. It felt ambling and nihilistic. The ending was pretty meh as well.
Agreed. The nihilism didn’t bother me but it did just drone on for chapters with not much happening. Liked it but had high expectations coming in.
I read Blood Meridian about ten years ago. Thought it was awful. My favorite McCarthy book is The Road. I read it around the time my son was born. I think that influenced my opinion.
I’m currently reading Hamilton by Chernow. I can’t believe how much it’s impacted my feelings toward Jefferson. He was someone basic middle school & high school curriculum holds in such high regard. I too held that belief, but reading Hamilton’s biography has changed that for me + knowing how he treated Sally Hemmings and his children with her. He was a terrible businessman and a snake in his political disagreements with Hamilton.
I’m currently reading Hamilton by Chernow. I can’t believe how much it’s impacted my feelings toward Jefferson. He was someone basic middle school & high school curriculum holds in such high regard. I too held that belief, but reading Hamilton’s biography has changed that for me + knowing how he treated Sally Hemmings and his children with her. He was a terrible businessman and a snake in his political disagreements with Hamilton.
I read it for the first time this year also. I enjoyed it but it is definitely below No Country and The Road for me.