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1. RE: page turner
Mar 15 2008, 5:58 AM EDT
"i've been reading alot on non-fiction and am now looking for a page turner which at the same time doesn't insult my intelligence. anyone out there with some suggestions?"I thoroughly enjoyed Anthony Beevor`s account of Stalingrad and wheyou follow that up with his account of the fall of Berlin you have one massive surge of pleasure. Either book can be read seperately but read consecutively there is so much more to both accounts. So that`s "Stalingrad" and "Berlin" by Anthony Beevor I hope that you enjoy them as much as I have, and still do. 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
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Mar 17 2008, 1:49 PM EDT
I found "The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq" by George Packer to be an amazing book. A non-fiction page turner that told me all i needed to know about this war.I found myself constantly quoting passages to my long-suffering husband! 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
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Apr 18 2008, 2:45 PM EDT
I just finished Susan Faludi's "The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-911 America." I couldn't put it down. In this work Faludi researches and explains America's psychological response to 9/11--the media response that sought to restore traditional male/female roles, denounced feminists, ignored female heroes, etc. Tracing events through our history from early colonial days, through the expansion into the West and through the Cold War, she finds a common thread. In instances of threat, America, unable to accept vulnerability, in each case resorted to a myth of female fragility protected by a big strong male. Whether or not you accept her thesis, it is fascinating reading in its indictment of a media and a government that pushed aside any voice that didn't agree.
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4. RE: page turner
Apr 19 2008, 8:24 AM EDT
Sally Jenkin's work "The Real All Americans: The team that changed a game, a people, a nation" was an enlightening and fascinating exploration of the Native American "re-education" process in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Using the Carlisle school in PA as a setting, she tells the story of the removal of Native American children from their homes for the purpose of cultural and education. The teaser is that she uses the Carlisle football team; a team that would defeat the big collegiate powerhouses at Yale, Harvard and Army despite their player's "cultural inferiority". Her well researched and documented work, interweaves the early days of football, the personal stories of well known Native American athletes like Jim Thorpe, famous Native American Indian leaders and misguided theories of racial integration and cultural destruction. As you read it, you come to understand the extraordinary decisions made by some Native Americans to let their children go East for education, the loss these children would suffer once they no longer felt at home in either culture and how in reality, modern football as we know it, is really an American game as the Carlisle team would bring new strategies and concepts to what had been simply a brawl on a muddy patch of ground.
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5. RE: page turner
Apr 25 2008, 12:25 PM EDT
I have just finished Babylons Ark by Lawrence Anthony, thinking I would just skim through-couldn't do it. I was hooked from the beginning. The account of how Anthony travels to Baghdad to help save the animals in the zoo that have been ignored throughout the war. Amazing, wrenching and eye opening.
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6. RE: page turner--Bones of the Master
May 27 2008, 8:02 AM EDT
"Bones of the Master: A Buddhist Monk's Search for the Lost Heart of China" by George Crane. In 1959 a young monk names Tsung Tsai travels 3000 miles on foot, train tops, boats and carts fleeing the Red Army that destoyed his monastery. His mission is to survive and carry on the Buddhist teachings of his master Shiuh Deng who would perish in the early days of The Great Leap Forward. Forty years later, a resident of Woodstock, NY, Tsung Tsai convinces his friend and writer George Crane to travel with him back to Mongolia to find and properly bury the bones of his master. An interesting and spell casting work filled with poetry, Buddhist teachings, travel nightmares and heartbreaking stories of the poverty and hardship the residents of this remote area of China face daily.
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7. RE: page turner--Bones of the Master
Jun 28 2008, 12:22 PM EDT
A page turner, I know this is sort of mainstream, but why not either of Dan Browns major works, like DaVanci Code or the Angels book, the have a bit of a non fiction feel to them so they might be up your alley, if you like historic fiction try anything semi bio by Gore Vidal... Burr was pretty good if that's up your alley.George http://upfrontmatching.com 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
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gingermanmason |
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Jul 10 2008, 8:14 PM EDT
"i've been reading alot on non-fiction and am now looking for a page turner which at the same time doesn't insult my intelligence. anyone out there with some suggestions?"I just read Al Gore's "Attack on Reason." He makes many good points, and paints what I see as a serious picture. He puts his finger right on much of what plagues us these days. I found it to be a page turner 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
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clemmer |
9. RE: page turner--another Captain Cook story
Jul 11 2008, 9:08 AM EDT
In "Blue Lattudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before," Tony Horwitz (author of "Confederates in the Attic") relives Cook's journeys. Literally, taking a sail on an Endeavor , a replica of Cook's vessel, and traveling by plane, train, auto and foot to the places Cook touched. Following the path of Cook's four sea journeys, Horwitz searches for the real "Cook" as he explores the lingering impact of Western European culture on the many indigenous populations and cultures Cook came into contact with. Traveling with his long time friend Roger, a carousing Austrialian (think BIll Bryson's hiking campanion in "A Walk in the Woods"), Horwitz keeps this well researched work humorous and delightful!
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gingermanmason |
10. RE: page turner
Jul 31 2008, 6:00 PM EDT
"i've been reading alot on non-fiction and am now looking for a page turner which at the same time doesn't insult my intelligence. anyone out there with some suggestions?"You've left a dangling problem. What insults your intelligence might be a real challenge for my two remaining brain cells. I'm reading a good non-fiction, non-mainstream item right now, called "A War Like No Other," by Victor Davis Hanson. It's about the Peloponnesian War, and analyses the contemporary accounts in the light of modern studies. 0 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
schwelo |
11. RE: page turner
Aug 9 2008, 6:26 PM EDT
My recommendation would be No Mercy: A Journey to the Heart of the CongoBy Redmond O'Hanlon. I found the story riveting - a modern day adventurer-scientist travels deep into the Congo in an attempt to prove the existence of a possibly mythical creature. He is a kind of Don Quixote chasing windmills through the jungle, and he shares the brilliant account of this oddessy with great humor, humility and humanity. 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
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Aug 11 2008, 9:22 PM EDT
Not sure if anyone replied or recommended a book yet, but Shadow of the Wind is an awesome read.0 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
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Aug 17 2008, 11:58 PM EDT
Nowhere is a Place - By Bernice L. McFadden (Historical Fiction)
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shanei |
14. RE: page turner
Jan 9 2009, 7:20 PM EST
Try "The Eyre Affair" by Jasper Fforde. It is fabulous!
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Mr.Romance |
15. RE: page turner
Jan 16 2009, 10:37 AM EST
I just read this book, "Sex, Love, & Consequences" and I simply could not put it down. I just finished it and it's funny that as soon as I get on someone is inquiring about a page turner. My wife bought it from Amazon and I was complaining that she buys too much from Amazon and never uses it but I ended up taking over that book. So of course she's upset. Lol
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matt70 |
16. RE: page turner
Feb 7 2009, 3:36 PM EST
I really enjoyed 'Twisted Consequences' by Irie Parker. I would recommend this book to anyone that does anything online (and really to anyone!). This points out that there are lots of different people out there and having online relationships can be tricky and not always what they seem.
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EPYoungblood |
17. RE: page turner
Apr 28 2009, 8:05 PM EDT
I can recommend TWELVE STONES: Notes on a Miraculous Journey. It's not a mystery, but it is a powerful experience and it will keep you up all night until you finish. Find out more about it on the author's website (www.barbaracarole.com) and on amazon.com. You'll see a lot of reviewers who feel the same way about it.
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18. RE: page turner
May 23 2009, 6:56 PM EDT
I like to sample titles beyond the recommended lists occasionally and came across the recently published "Islands of Instability" for my Kindle; I think it's also available via Amazon in paperback. Anyway, it's a good, intelligent thriller with the right mix of action, social-political intrigue, and romance. The concept of extending the periodic table to the next "island of stability" to yield an explosive that goes off like a 500lb. bomb at microdot size got me interested, but the pace and writing kept me turning the pages.
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19. RE: page turner
May 31 2009, 9:51 PM EDT
My assumption from your comment is that you wanted fiction. Try Blood on His Hands.. my debut novel ar www.markpsadler.com
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