Re-reading (and thoroughly enjoying) the late Tony Horwitz's "Confederates in the Attic - Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War."
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Trying to get through Never Flinch by Stephen King one of the worst books by him and an a big fan of his books. I have read and enjoyed all of his books, loved Duma key,cujo and so you like it darker its has a short story follow up to the novel called rattlesnakes. The dark tower series I recommend
I'm re-reading "Insomnia" by King now. Have read all those you mentioned, except for Never Flinch. I assume that is his newest one. As to the quality, I have noticed that he has been getting more "politically charged" as his novels progress. I hope that is not what you are experiencing.
It's in my Kindle, and I usually dive in to new King books, but I've put off reading this one. Perhaps I sensed it was a stinker.
Yeah and this one is full of politics, there is alot of story to keep you invested in the book
While visiting a favorite used bookshop today I purchased a first edition English translation (1969) copy of Zino Davidoff's "The Connoisseur's Book of the Cigar." This book was originally published in French in 1967.
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I was made to read this book at home, at my church, at my school, and once again in college.
I just never in a million years thought it could be applied to the USA. Not here.
This copy has underlining where a student used it in a classroom.
Imagine a teacher today who would dare assign a book that lumps Abraham Lincoln, Stalin, Hitler, The Founding Fathers, Jesus Christ and Ghandi in the same category as mass movement leaders.
The zealot always attacks the educated who could expose the movement.
The great leader supplants his will for those of his sheep.
The true believer seeks freedom from the freedom to be anything more than a cog in a machine. He doesn’t want to think, or have individual responsibility for the regime’s crimes.
It is always the outsider, the other, that is to blame.
Heaven on this earth, or the next, is always just over the little hill.
Hoffer wrote this in 1951.
I just never in a million years thought it could be applied to the USA. Not here.
This copy has underlining where a student used it in a classroom.
Imagine a teacher today who would dare assign a book that lumps Abraham Lincoln, Stalin, Hitler, The Founding Fathers, Jesus Christ and Ghandi in the same category as mass movement leaders.
The zealot always attacks the educated who could expose the movement.
The great leader supplants his will for those of his sheep.
The true believer seeks freedom from the freedom to be anything more than a cog in a machine. He doesn’t want to think, or have individual responsibility for the regime’s crimes.
It is always the outsider, the other, that is to blame.
Heaven on this earth, or the next, is always just over the little hill.
Hoffer wrote this in 1951.
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"Pheasants of the Mind - A Hunter's Search for a Mythic Bird" by Datus C. Proper.
Re-reading D.H. Lawrence's THE PLUMED SERPENT. A vilified novel, but some of his very best writing.
Eichmann in Jerusalem- A Report on the Banality (Ordinariness) of EvilIn 1963 Eichmann in Jerusalem came out and my mother and grandmother both bought copies and my mother required all her students to read it, and our church preached sermons comparing Judas Iscariot to Eichmann. I had to read this book at home, for church, and again at school in the seventh grade, and then again in college.
Eichmann was not a monster. He was very ordinary, or as the title reads. banal.
Two unseen angels reside in our natures.
The darker angels of hatred and bigotry and evil disguise themselves as just the way things are, you know?
The brighter angels of love, tolerance and charity often seem outdated and corny.
If I were King this book would be required reading again.
A good balance between scholarly detail and narrative flow.
