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Post by Redd on Aug 4, 2010 2:33:47 GMT -5
Vacations are awesome!
Yeah, I understand why war memoirs might bother some people. But as you said, it's important history and I feel it's necessary to read these things to truly understand the impact of the war on its participants.
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Post by Kamikaze Parrot on Aug 4, 2010 3:48:16 GMT -5
Vacations are awesome! Yeah, I understand why war memoirs might bother some people. But as you said, it's important history and I feel it's necessary to read these things to truly understand the impact of the war on its participants. Yes they are.. today it is only raining though, and the internet connection here is slower than slow..
I think it is neat that you are going so deep into investigating it. Not that many people do. What parts/aspects of WWII do you still feel that you havnt covered? Or is it just that the more you read, the more you feel you dont know and need to know more about?
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Post by Redd on Aug 4, 2010 17:26:46 GMT -5
It's a bit of both, but I'm lacking entirely in the Pacific theater. I barely know anything about it. I want to learn more about the Soviet home front too. And I know nothing of a Red Army soldier's experiences.. I ought to find a memoir of one of them..
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Post by Kamikaze Parrot on Aug 9, 2010 8:03:59 GMT -5
It's a bit of both, but I'm lacking entirely in the Pacific theater. I barely know anything about it. I want to learn more about the Soviet home front too. And I know nothing of a Red Army soldier's experiences.. I ought to find a memoir of one of them.. It is an interesting part of the war (pacific), I think you need to learn more about the Japanese culture and their history to understand their role in it.
(I was reading a lot about Japanese history when I was younger, it is fascinating).
I'm sure you can find some memoir from a red army soldier. I just wonder how easy it is to get an unbiased version. (Since Soviet Union was pretty good with censure ship).
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Post by Redd on Aug 11, 2010 2:47:48 GMT -5
Yeah, that's why I'm kind of on edge about getting a Soviet war memoir. I'm worried it'll be filled with propaganda. Maybe it's possible something was smuggled out of the country or printed with the underground press. This is going to be quite a search.
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Post by Kamikaze Parrot on Aug 11, 2010 11:18:48 GMT -5
Yeah, that's why I'm kind of on edge about getting a Soviet war memoir. I'm worried it'll be filled with propaganda. Maybe it's possible something was smuggled out of the country or printed with the underground press. This is going to be quite a search. or you might find something from someone that escaped the system and wrote it somewhere else.
(might be biased in the opposite direction though)
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Post by Redd on Aug 11, 2010 18:50:19 GMT -5
This is true. Damn totalitarianism.
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Post by Kamikaze Parrot on Aug 12, 2010 12:35:17 GMT -5
This is true. Damn totalitarianism. Yes, it messes things up doesn't it?
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Post by INeverLikedYou on Nov 13, 2010 7:06:20 GMT -5
Eye of the Crow: The Boy Sherlock Holmes, His First Case by Shane Peacock.
It's about Sherlock Holmes and his first murder case at 13 in London in 1867. He tries to solve the murder of an unknown woman and a young Arab man who has been acussed. I'm only a few chapters in, but it's getting interesting. He gets his acute obeservation and high intelligence from his father, who has a high interest in birds (which is part of the theme of the book). Young Sherlock deals with bullying from The Irregulars, a group of young misfits that pester and beat up Holmes, and endures discrimination from peers and city people because he is a Jew (his father is Jewish and his mother came from a wealthy, Christian family, and her parents disowned her because she married outside of her religion and social status) and growing up in poverty.
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Post by Ockham's Razor on Dec 13, 2010 14:27:09 GMT -5
The second twilight book. It's atrocious. I'm reviewing it for a friend's blog. sure you are
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Post by Kamikaze Parrot on Dec 13, 2010 15:48:20 GMT -5
The second twilight book. It's atrocious. I'm reviewing it for a friend's blog. oj oj oj
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Post by Krissy on Dec 21, 2010 19:47:59 GMT -5
Currently, I am reading a few books...A collection of Thoreau essays, On the Road, and Crime & Punishment
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Post by Kamikaze Parrot on Dec 26, 2010 14:08:12 GMT -5
I finished it. Ohh good lord it was BAD.
I feel so sorry for you.
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Post by INeverLikedYou on Jan 3, 2011 22:47:21 GMT -5
Harry Potter 7
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Post by Kamikaze Parrot on Jan 11, 2011 12:21:50 GMT -5
Oh, so you started to read them.
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