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Old 06-24-2013, 02:39 PM   #35
WT Sharpe
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Originally Posted by Hamlet53 View Post
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.
Faust in Copenhagen ... I should have given that a vote. Does sound interesting.
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