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W.’s 2024 Year in Books
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W. Ferrell
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August 2013
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https://www.goodreads.com/wferrell
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The Secrets of Sterling Shearin: The Noblest Cause
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2012
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W. Ferrell
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| The author presents some good historical detail. But unfortunately, he fills in what he doesn’t know with insufferable self-righteous supposition and political correctness. He is particularly remiss in not having read Time on the Cross, given his sub ...more | |
"63% through on Libby and giving up
Once again, someone's publisher was like "you need to squeeze in these topics into your book to check every box." I am not sure how you do that with a story based in the 1300s but - check - every social issue covered" Read more of this review » |
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"This book was not it for me, and I have to say I am highly suspicious of the 5-star reviews from people who, coincidentally, received ARCs. The sentences themselves are mostly well-written and the premise is semi-interesting and that’s the whole of a"
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W. Ferrell
rated a book liked it
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| This is not a bad historical novel and I almost rated 4 star. An occasional lack of realism detracted from the story. The author refers to something being “handwritten” as if printing existed as an alternative in the 1300s. Same thing with “homespun” ...more | |
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W. Ferrell
rated a book really liked it
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Fairly Good A fairly good historical novel. Especially in terms of deep research and characters who seem of their time. One of the least Presentist historical novels I’ve read. (The closest thing I can come to a quibble is that his protagonist deadhea ...more |
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"Hour of the Witch is a historical fiction novel sit in Bostin in the 1600's. Mary Deerfield is a 24-year old woman married to Thomas Deerfield. Thomas is not an ideal husband - he is a drunk and a wife beater. Mary decides that she is going to pursue"
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W. Ferrell
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Fairly Good A fairly good historical novel. Especially in terms of deep research and characters who seem of their time. One of the least Presentist historical novels I’ve read. (The closest thing I can come to a quibble is that his protagonist deadhea ...more |
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W. Ferrell
rated a book it was amazing
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| This is an excellent and needed book. Very readable and bringing out so much fact having to do with the complicated, centuries-long process by which European colonists and then American settlers displaced, assimilated, and restricted the sparse popul ...more | |
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W. Ferrell
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| This book is a mess. Hamalainen’s portrayal of chronology and geography is routinely confused and strains to be coherent. One wonders if he lacks a grasp of the huge distances he describes, even without people having to get there by walking and no ro ...more | |
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W. Ferrell
rated a book did not like it
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The premise of the book is pretty silly. But the author has little interest in historical truth or context. His main objective seems to be following the fashion to dump all over Thomas Jefferson. He puts so many lies in the book about Jefferson, one ...more |
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“Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
“Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.”
― Culture and Value
― Culture and Value
“I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy.”
― On Certainty
― On Certainty
“Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.”
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