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William Thornton
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A Requiem for Logan Roy
Logan Roy's entrance into the second episode of "Succession" begins with a question: "Why does everybody ask how I'm doing?"
It now looks like a signal to the audience of what's to come. Of course, the question hovering over all four seasons of "Succession" is the mortality of Logan Roy (Brian Cox) and which of his children will succeed him at the head of his companies. Or, perhaps, none of th
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| Carries on the sweeping narrative Foote began in Vol. 1, taking the story from late 1862 through early 1864, covering Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Chickamauga and Chattanooga, as well as the coastal campaigns and politics ...more | |
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| I am not a scholar, but interested in first century sources and extra-Biblical history. So Schmidt's word-by-word dissection of Josephus' paragraph on Jesus was interesting, but a little more than someone with no background in Greek was prepared for. ...more | |
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I came to this book totally ignorant of the general storyline, and I aim to keep it this way as I make my way through the series. Like most Americans, what I know of this world has been gleaned mainly from other novels and prestige television. First ...more |
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| This was the only one of Tolstoy's novels that I had not previously read. I left off a star because the book loses momentum when we get to the "Youth" portion. But Tolstoy's gift for creating characters, animating them, giving them life and complexit ...more | |
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| This is my first Pynchon, and I finished it on my third attempt. It's not for everyone. Pynchon's plots seem barely disguised set ups for the puns, ironic names, and elaborate jokes he constructs that one occasionally needs a slide rule to plot out t ...more | |
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| This novel is a relic of the late sixties, early seventies - so the geography feels well worn by now. Revolution in the air and in the bed, but I was surprised at the main character's origin story as an English lit grad student. Readers may come for ...more | |
