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About half way through "I, Claudius" by Robert Graves. Absolutely mesmerising - and it completely reverses the writing mantra of "show, don't tell".
Are you recommending the Wikipedia article or a book about the program?This is what I have read recently:Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Perhaps the most amazing story of our times.
I have begun re-reading Thomas Malory's Le Mort d'Arthur for the first time in over half a century.
What strikes me the most now (that didn't even occur to me as a teen) is how awful it must have been to be a woman back in those days compared with today. The role of women in society at that time was, appropriately, simply Medieval!
But to be honest, as a modern woman who has had so many opportunities in life, I am not so sure I want to read much more of this book for that reason.
Very awful - of course, it was pretty awful to be just about anybody at that time in history: Life Expectancy in the Middle Ages | Sarah Woodbury
So true! We have come such a long way since medieval times. Reading about life back then has not been as romantic and intriguing to me as I expected.
Quite interesting to a spy novel reader after all these years to learn of this, if true.John le Carré (David Cornwell) depicts Philby as Bill Haydon, the upper-class traitor in the 1974 novel Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. The novel has been adapted as a 1979 TV miniseries, a 2011 film, and radio dramatisations in 1988 and 2009. In real life, Philby had ended le Carré's intelligence officer career by betraying him to the Russians.
That reminds me of "The Wisdom of Insecurity," by Allan Watts. I read it in college and experienced some stunning insight I soon forgot. I re-read it a couple or three decades later but couldn't recapture the insight. It is still on my shelf -- maybe I will retry. My daughter has Siddhartha so I can pull her copy out an try that one again.Last night I re-read Siddhartha, by H. Hesse, for the first time in 45 years. This book is about a young man's spiritual quest and is available on Kindle for nothing or nearly so (I got a different version for $0.00 several months ago but I don't see it now). Siddhartha used to be very popular among young hippies in the 1960's, but I found it is still fascinating and meaningful to me all these years later. Actually I got more from it this time due to having 45 more years of life experiences to draw on.
It is still a very quick read (2-3 hours, I suppose, depending on how much one wishes to pause and ponder). Well worth re-reading, if you are of a spiritual bent and interested in eastern philosophical viewpoints.
Enjoyed that one....as I did with Littell's earlier works some years ago.I just finished this spy novel: Amazon.com: Young Philby: A Novel eBook: Robert Littell: Kindle Store.