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| An odd book. It features a great collection of images. The text is at times lucid and at other times seems disorganized. Newman is good at describing the Ashikaga Shogunate and Sengoku Period, but much less the Kamakura. In dealing with post Tokugawa ...more | |
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| Wonderful art but the language is too disenchanted. It worked in The Last Unicorn because of the melancholy at the story's core. ...more | |
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| A well written book but marred by its moralism, reductionist conclusions (most New Orleans ghost stories are not about slavery), and its lean toward the personal. It is not terrible just limited by its indulgence of the various academic obsessions of ...more | |
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The Battle of Mill Springs, Kentucky (Civil War Sesquicentennial Series)
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| This is one of only two books on Mill Springs that I know of. It is a solid work about a very confusing battle. The later was due to terrain, weather, inexperience, and Confederate weapons and leadership. The battle lasted four hours as both sides st ...more | |
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Great stuff! I did not read every tale here back when I was given this book when it came out. Oh, I liked them but they unsettled me and I grew up on horror movies and scary books. I think it was that the stories were not about people getting their ju ...more |
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| I have a strong interest in this topic that goes beyond writing about the Civil War. I lived in Kentucky from 2009-2012 and found it a curious state. My family was also from there back generations and were split by the war. Neither side gave the Unio ...more | |
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"Congratulations to this book for being the only for-kids scary story compilation to freak me out when I was in 2nd grade. Goosebumps was fun, but (with a couple exceptions) didn't scare me; the illustrations in Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark scare"
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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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Just a place for people to talk about Military History from various periods of time, and Military History books they've read. ...more