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\n David's bookshelf: read<\/a>\n <\/h2>\n
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\n $\"Unknown$ <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
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\n Unknown Soldiers: Reliving World War II in Europe<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n by Joseph E. Garland<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n This book is a cross between a personal narrative and a unit history. The author served in an Intelligence and Reconnaissance platoon that served in Sicily, Italy, France, and Germany. The author wasn\'t with the unit that entire time, so...\n <\/div>\n
\n tagged:\n history-wwii\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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\n $\"Foundation:$ <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n $\"liked$ $\"\"$ $\"\"$ $\"\"$ $\"\"$ <\/span>\n <\/div>\n
\n Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n by Peter Ackroyd<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n I found this to be a nice survey of English history up to the reign of Henry VII.\n\nAs expected, there\'s quite a bit about the various kings - the Williams, the Edwards, the Richards, the Henrys, and the rest - but that\'s not all it\'s abo...\n <\/div>\n
\n tagged:\n history\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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\n $\"Justinian’s$ <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
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\n Justinian’s Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n by William Rosen<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n "You can\'t judge a book by its cover."\n\nI wanted to read this one so I could learn about the 6th-century plague. But this book isn\'t so much about the plague as about what the plague did.\n\nTo a large degree, this book is the story of the...\n <\/div>\n
\n tagged:\n history\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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\n $\"Roadside$ <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n $\"liked$ $\"\"$ $\"\"$ $\"\"$ $\"\"$ <\/span>\n <\/div>\n
\n Roadside Picnic / Tale of the Troika<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n by Arkady Strugatsky<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n Roadside Picnic was the basis for the Tarkovsky movie Stalker. I really enjoyed the movie, though I\'m not sure I can recommend it. The story and the movie are quite dissimilar. I may have enjoyed the story more than the movie, but they\'r...\n <\/div>\n
\n tagged:\n fiction-sff\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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\n $\"The$ <\/a>\n <\/div>\n
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\n The Ministry for the Future<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n by Kim Stanley Robinson<\/a>\n <\/div>\n
\n This we know: the world is coming to an end. Well, not the world, but humanity\'s ability to live on it. We\'re doing this to ourselves. We\'ve all more or less decided to slowly cook ourselves. This is an undeniable fact. "I want to vacati...\n <\/div>\n
\n tagged:\n fiction-sff\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
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