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Mar 9 2008, 10:12 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? 1 out of 4 found this valuable. Do you? |
 thomas_william |
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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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psalese psalese |
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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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clemmer clemmer |
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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. Do you find this valuable? |
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clemmer clemmer |
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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. Do you find this valuable? |
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trishull trishull |
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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. 1 out of 2 found this valuable. Do you? |
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clemmer clemmer |
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. 2 out of 2 found this valuable. Do you? |
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george_blue george_blue |
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 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 clemmer |
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! Do you find this valuable? |