| Mute Bystander | 23 Jan 2015 3:53 a.m. PST |
Feeling behind in my reading list here… |
Frederick  | 23 Jan 2015 4:45 a.m. PST |
No fooling There are some books that sound great that I have never heard of |
| Alfred Adler does the Hobby | 23 Jan 2015 5:27 a.m. PST |
yeah me too…
Had to choose 'Name of the Rose'-though am only one.
Have the Folio copy edition.
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 Parzival | 23 Jan 2015 7:03 a.m. PST |
Sometimes I find there is a great deal of difference between "a topic people should know about" and "a specific book on that topic people should read." Given that, I felt quite comfortable deviating from the expected on this list. I mean, yeah, you should know about the Peloponnesian War, but you don't have to have read Kagan's book on it. But the only way to really know about Doc Savage is to read Man of Bronze, so obviously I had to pick the latter over the former.  |
| Battle Phlox | 23 Jan 2015 7:40 a.m. PST |
I've read "On War" by Clausewitz many many moons ago. It has a few good one liners. Other than that, it's not a good read and overrated. There I said it. |
| John the OFM | 23 Jan 2015 7:40 a.m. PST |
I tried to read The Name of the Rose way back when I was on my Prieure de Sion kick.
I must have missed all the clues and found it excruciatingly boring. |
| Maddaz111 | 23 Jan 2015 8:21 a.m. PST |
Again 11 great books make my longlist, and 9 essential reads made my shortlist… Picking certain books over other ones… a real challenge! I wish we had them split into Factual and Fiction sub categories… I would have been happy trying to pick fifteen of each (or so) out of a full listing… |
| nazrat | 23 Jan 2015 9:39 a.m. PST |
There are tons of good books on the list but there isn't even one that I think EVERYONE should read. |
| Cerdic | 23 Jan 2015 12:11 p.m. PST |
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| Pictors Studio | 23 Jan 2015 2:29 p.m. PST |
I agree except for the Reardon book. It really is an interesting study in the concept of memory and historical record, it is good for the historian but it is also good for the average person because it really shows good, relateable examples of how your memory basically is terrible. |
| Weasel | 29 Jan 2015 12:11 p.m. PST |
Those are so disparate that it's hard to pick something. In the end, I guess you can't go wrong with Vonnegut though. |
thanks everyone who helped after her family's recent fire.
