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Book Lovers #19: Never judge a book by its movie!
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Thanks for the new thread. :)
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You're welcome. I used one of the titles from the first post. :)
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Can't go wrong with that. :)
Of course, I will always maintain that Mansfield Park was better as a movie than as a book. And I say that as a die-hard Jane Austen fanatic. |
i am still trying to finish The First Lady by James Patterson. 2020 has not been good for my literary imagination. :(
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I ordered another book. :lol: I have to stop.
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i just can't seem to be able to concentrate/use my imagination/read a book lately, too many distractions, worries, bills, ugh. i need a serious change in life, to get back to reading. i love books. *sighs*
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I use books as a distraction. :lol:
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The Naked Jape by Jimmy Carr. I'm not entirely sure what it's about. It seems to be about the history of comedy. But, mostly, I'm that big a fan of Jimmy Carr and I want to see what he's like as an author.
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I finally finished The Silent Companions. That was creepy!
Now to read some non-fiction books. |
I finished one book about the lives of aristocratic ladies of the mid-19th century through to the First World War.
Now onto a book about everyday citizens who turned a blind eye to the Holocaust.... I think. It's called Hitler's Willing Executioners. |
^^^ I have that book, "Hitler's Willing Executioner's" it's about 4th down right now in my 'what to read next' pile! :nod:
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I've started reading it... the introduction is SO pedantic. :lol: The author's very much up his own behind, promising to break new ground on the subject, which.... :lol: We'll see. I'm interested enough in said subject to keep going until we get to the bones of the matter.
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I'll keep that in mind when I start! :lol:
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Goal by 2020 is to read every book on my shelves.
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Good luck with that, Mandie. :)
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Like, I'm not debating that this was about getting rid of Jews (I mean, it wasn't the Final Solution for Leos or Libras, you know), but plenty of other groups were also targetted. :shrug: I'm honestly enjoying the book, but about half of my enjoyment is from feeling a smidge like this guy's ego is making him look like a tool. |
He sounds arrogant in how he's presenting, or am i understanding that wrong?
I have another in my to-read pile that is before this one that has my interest more: https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/com...l/18089902.jpg Plot: Set against the backdrop of the Nazi occupation of World War II, the captivating history of Paris's world-famous Hôtel Ritz-a breathtaking tale of glamour, opulence, and celebrity; dangerous liaisons, espionage, and resistance-from the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow Clicquot and The Secret of Chanel No. 5 More info here: The Hotel on Place Vendome: Life, Death, and Betrayal at the Hotel Ritz in Paris by Tilar J. Mazzeo |
The Ritz took a big part on the book I read on Coco Chanel (the person, not the company)'s complicity with the Third Reich. :nod: But I've never read that one... adding it to the list.
Anyway, any person who takes up 24 pages to lay out why the 466-page book you're about to read is a work of unprecedented scholarship is obviously not lacking in ego. A sample of his writing: "Previous studies, and almost all previous explanations of the perpetrators' actions, have been generated either in the laboratory, have been deduced purely from some philosophical or theoretical system, or have transferred conclusions (which themselves are often erroneous) from the societal or institutional levels of analysis of the individual." I mean.... what? :lol: Can't you just say "all the previous books on this topic are crap and I'm about to set you straight" like a normal person? Nevermind that it's still a pretty bold claim to make. |
Goodness hat excerpt sounds like he's writing a frigging encyclopedia! :lol:
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:lol: Like I said, he's far much up his own where-the-sun-don't-shine. :lol:
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In honor of International Women's Day, I'm listening to Cinder by Marissa Meyer.
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I have no commitment to stick with it. I'm just curious as to where he's going. Because, right now, he's saying that part of the problem is that we all fail to see that the Germans were rabid anti-Semites in Different ways than the rest of us because nothing like the Holocaust had happened before in modern Western society.
And that makes me want to know when his modern Western society begins, because I'm thinking Queen Mary and the Protestant martyrs, the St Bartholomew Massacre, the Crusade, the 100 Years religious wars, the pogroms in Russia, the concentration camps (not death camps, mind you) during the Boer War, the Armenian Genocide, the Ukrainian Genocide and, of course, the German's own dry run for the Holocaust in Namibia at the start of the 20th century. :shrug: Not to mention, you know, slavery and what we all did and continue to do to the First Nations. But, sure, tell me more about how the Holocaust came out of nowhere and could only have happened in Germany. |
Wow...this guy thinks the Holocaust is a stand alone event, not effected by anything from the past or previous years leading up to it...What an idiot. Wonder if he actually had a ghost writer and is taking credit...lol
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