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Sean’s 2025 Year in Books
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| A very good summation of a battle that was sandwiched between bloodbaths. The prose is clear, arguments well made, and the drama is not lacking but without stepping into the land of purple prose. Perhaps the best in the series and a perfect recommend ...more | |
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| This is possibly the most influential history book of the last 50 years, at least for American history. Before this, the main unifying American myth was of European settlers who came and tamed a land, making a great nation in only a few hundred years ...more | |
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| Memoirs are a difficult beast, and many a historian does not use them, particularly memoirs written by those in high places who often pick scapegoats for their failures. All of that said, those by soldiers, slaves, and others on the lower rung are tr ...more | |
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| Like any short story collection, it is hit and miss. So the real question is, what about the hits? Oh, they hit hard. Very hard. Now, is this the real New Orleans? Hardly anymore than the other iterations. But it is about a time (1990s), place (Frenc ...more | |
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| The sequel to A Night to Remember, brought on by Ballard's discovery of the Titanic in 1985, is better than the first book. The other one was a recounting of the sinking from several personal angles. I liked it, but the book never quite grabbed me. T ...more | |
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| I feel mixed about this book. I like speculation, original analysis, and the unromantic view taken by Elverhøi. Particularly searing is when you realize the women refused to go back and save their husbands (the crew and many men, of course, went alon ...more | |
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| As an account of his time and presidency, this book is weak. As an account of the man, it works well. | |
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| The Larry Hama Marvel run of G.I. Joe has its fans, so I took the plunge. Issue one was certainly a blockbuster, but the rest were much less so. Oh, there are strong points. Vivid art, great action, and Scarlett and Cobra Commander are impressive. Bu ...more | |
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“Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.”
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“It's all now you see. Yesterday won't be over until tomorrow and tomorrow began ten thousand years ago. For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o'clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are laid and ready in the woods and the furled flags are already loosened to break out and Pickett himself with his long oiled ringlets and his hat in one hand probably and his sword in the other looking up the hill waiting for Longstreet to give the word and it's all in the balance, it hasn't happened yet, it hasn't even begun yet, it not only hasn't begun yet but there is still time for it not to begin against that position and those circumstances which made more men than Garnett and Kemper and Armistead and Wilcox look grave yet it's going to begin, we all know that, we have come too far with too much at stake and that moment doesn't need even a fourteen-year-old boy to think This time. Maybe this time with all this much to lose than all this much to gain: Pennsylvania, Maryland, the world, the golden dome of Washington itself to crown with desperate and unbelievable victory the desperate gamble, the cast made two years ago; or to anyone who ever sailed a skiff under a quilt sail, the moment in 1492 when somebody thought This is it: the absolute edge of no return, to turn back now and make home or sail irrevocably on and either find land or plunge over the world's roaring rim.”
― Intruder in the Dust
― Intruder in the Dust
“The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.”
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“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.”
― Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
― Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
“Poetry is the mother tongue of the human race, as the garden is older than the ploughed field; painting, than writing; song, than declamation; parables, than logical deduction; barter, than commerce. A deeper sleep was the repose of our most distant ancestors, and their movement was a frenzied dance. Seven days they would sit in the silence of thought or wonder; -- and would open their mouths -- to winged sentences.”
― Writings on Philosophy and Language
― Writings on Philosophy and Language
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