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Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden | 12 | 29.27% | |
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer | 9 | 21.95% | |
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot | 6 | 14.63% | |
A Night to Remember by Walter Lord | 15 | 36.59% | |
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England by Daniel Pool | 7 | 17.07% | |
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark | 10 | 24.39% | |
We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch | 9 | 21.95% | |
Gulp by Mary Roach | 12 | 29.27% | |
Faust in Copenhagen by Gino Segrè | 6 | 14.63% | |
Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England by Neil McKenna | 15 | 36.59% | |
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06-24-2013, 02:08 PM | #31 |
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06-24-2013, 02:23 PM | #33 |
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I guess that popular science/trivia books don't do much for me. If I am going to read about science I want the real thing, not simplified, sensationalized, or jazzed up to appeal to a broad audience. Biographies of celebrities and entertainers also leave me cold. I may like the music, acting, comedy, etc. that they produce or not, but minus some reason to attach great historical significance to them I am not interested in who they are as people or what their life has been like. So among the final options for the vote that eliminated Gulp and What Jane Austen . . . for me. I've already read recently a book about North Korea (Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick) so I did not vote for Escape from Camp 14. The others all sound good to me, though I would have preferred Faust in Copenhagen.
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Hamlet53: How is Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick? I'm thinking of visiting North Korea /South Korea in the coming years.... |
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06-24-2013, 03:57 PM | #36 |
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If we would still use the "old" system of one vote I would have given my only vote to Faust in Copenhagen. I will read it anyway, no matter how this voting ends. Thanks for your nomination!
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It is also possible to explore the cultural impact of the loss of Titanic. It has become mythic in its significance. Lord does examine this somewhat in the book but there is much more to be explored. But, in fact, because we have only recently passed the centenary, we have been bombarded with information and theories--some quite bizarre-- (one holds that it was the Olympic that sank}. I can understand why some might feel that we need a rest from the topic. I did support ANTR but I can see the attractiveness of Issybird's preference that we look at "new treatments of historical incidents". Last edited by fantasyfan; 06-25-2013 at 06:12 AM. |
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06-24-2013, 07:22 PM | #39 |
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I found it a good read and very balanced despite being for the most part a collection of accounts of former North Koreans that had defected to the South. I also liked that it took as a starting point the initial formation of North and South Korea at the end of WWII. The entire partition was purely as the result of drawing of battle lines between the USSR and the US. Koreans were treated as nothing but pawns. I would be fascinated to hear about your impressions of North Korea should that come about. Maybe you could write a book picking up where Demick left off. The book ends before the death of Kim Jong-il.
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Did the Titanic Sink Because of an Optical Illusion? |
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I won't take part in reading ANTR if it wins, but will read one or more of the other nominations, probably starting with the Gourevitch because I think that is the most important one, though also the most harrowing. |
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Anyway, the ebook edition is brilliantly formatted and I really did my best to read it despite the advise of my friends and colleagues who told me that there is no point in it. I had to drop it after first part of the book and leave the second and third part unread... But, I am sure for many readers it will be a brilliant read, especially for ones who so far have not had deeper interest in the Great War. And I am writing this for them, hoping they will not take this book as an ultimate history account but as just one (and not very much facts based) "modern treatment" of the past. |
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Here's a link on Franco-Prussian War after which in 1871 France was forced to sign humiliating treaty with Germany loosing Alsace-Lorraine...This was before the humiliation of Germany that followed much later in Versailles in which France got Alsace-Lorraine back... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Prussian_War |
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