Great book on a real hero.
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Great book on a real hero.
I just started reading through the Aubrey-Maturin series again. I started and made it about 20% of the way through the 21-book series a couple of years ago, then set it down when I started grad school. It was a long enough break that I felt like I needed to start back at the beginning, but they're just as enjoyable the second time around!
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I finished Mater and Commander a couple months back, great book but I haven't talked myself into the entire series yet.
Sounds like an interesting book for us woodworkers. I click the link to discover " We have run out of stock for this item. " Possible to post the link to the pdf?The Anarchist's Workbench by Christopher Schwarz.
If you dig through this page you'll see that Chris has offered this book up as a free PDF. I'm a woodworker and love building, planning a bench build to act as my base for an electric brewing I'm putting together. Chris has a few books on workbenches, always very detailed and informative.
The Anarchist's Workbench
edit: my cat walked on my keyboard...spelling
If you skim that web page, this link is given a couple of times.Sounds like an interesting book for us woodworkers. I click the link to discover " We have run out of stock for this item. " Possible to post the link to the pdf?
Chris has an excellent writing style, and he is very committed to the subject matter as well. There are a few other books in his "anarchist trilogy", all follow the same overall pattern/writing style. Glad you enjoyed it.I spent a couple hours skimming through it and really like his writing style - humorous but loaded with information!
Yes, very good book. Amazing, how some people are able to overcome their bad circumstances.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devils_of_Loudun
Loudon is about15 miles from our house in France-there's a really great Belgian microbrewerry just outside of Loudun now. I have heard about the "Witches of Loudun" ever since I got married 40 years ago, but none of my inlaws really knew the story so this book has explained it for me. Cardinal Richelieu's walled town(now called Richelieu) is also right there, we got to their town market on Fridays for seafood and cheese.
I never knew there was a movie, but I'm not a movie person. My ADHD makes it almost impossible to sit still long enough to watch a movie. I think the last movie I saw in a theater was the last of the Lord of The Rings movie.Loved the story, and the film with Vanessa Redgrave and Oliver Reed. Yikes. Would love to see it from the vantage point now, instead of then!
Now streaming, withGlenn Close and Amy Adams, among others. Haven't seen it and I know it's sacrilegious to see a movie before the book.... still. Amy Adams. Glenn Close.
I started some fantasy series that I hated immediately.
Started this a few days ago, and it's awesome. Exactly they style of writing that I like.
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That is a great book. Read it back in the 80's(?) when it first came out. The continuation, 'Noble House' is quite different, but still an interesting read.I started some fantasy series that I hated immediately.
Started this a few days ago, and it's awesome. Exactly they style of writing that I like.
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I started some fantasy series that I hated immediately.
Started this a few days ago, and it's awesome. Exactly they style of writing that I like.
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What was the series you didn't like?
FTFYMy take-away, as it almost always is with these kinds of histories, is how horribly brutal and war-like civilization has been. Atrocity upon atrocity.
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Am about 2/3's through it, was a Christmas present from one of my sons. There's a lot here, plus its 600ish pages, but generally presented in an interesting way. My take-away, as it almost always is with these kinds of histories, is how horribly brutal and war-like western civilization has been. Atrocity upon atrocity.
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