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D.A. is 50% done with Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane
Why do otherwise adequate writers use exclamations?!?
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Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane

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D.A. is 50% done with Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane
Why do otherwise adequate writers use exclamations?!?
Feb 05, 2016 08:27AM Add a comment
Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane

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D.A. is on page 200 of 384 of A Person from England & Other Travellers to Turkestan (Century Travellers)
Sometimes, with histories, I find myself wanting to read backward. Trucks replace horses, telegraph replaces courier notes, and this vast central Asian steppe is diminished. In the beginning it was empty and you could imprint your fears upon it; by the mid-20th century it's a dusty inconvenience with oil.
Mar 02, 2014 10:14AM Add a comment
A Person from England & Other Travellers to Turkestan (Century Travellers)

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D.A. is on page 450 of 783 of The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean
It really is a great sea. But sea-riously...

The Islamic period in the west is awesome. Amalfi, perched on its rocky coast, becomes a dominant entrepot, because the ancestors of Genoa, Venice, and Barcelona are quaking in their hovels, waiting for Muslim pirates to enslave them. Delicious.
Feb 25, 2014 11:28AM Add a comment
The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean

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D.A. is on page 75 of 382 of The Surgeon's Mate (Aubrey & Maturin, #7)
Stephen is a cunning fellow, but I suppose we all knew it by now.
Aug 21, 2013 05:52PM Add a comment
The Surgeon's Mate (Aubrey & Maturin, #7)

D.A.
D.A. is on page 25 of 180 of The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism Before Its Triumph
Now I understand how the world survived before I got into it: they had this guy.
May 28, 2013 01:49PM Add a comment
The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism Before Its Triumph

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D.A. is on page 200 of 399 of Gone Girl
I can't do it. What has happened to me? Is it just age? Or something deeper, more pernicious...do I have standards? These people make no sense to me, and they should, they should. Otherwise, what's the point?
May 17, 2013 01:48PM Add a comment
Gone Girl

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D.A. is on page 200 of 399 of Gone Girl
Feb 06, 2013 10:23PM Add a comment
Gone Girl

D.A.
D.A. is on page 250 of 688 of The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding
A continent of scouser thieves. I knew it! Also, this Hughes guy can really ink it up. He should be an art critic or something.
Oct 22, 2012 01:21PM Add a comment
The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding

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D.A. is on page 150 of 708 of The Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648-1815
Mr. Blanning's politics are mildly apparent. He's a bit of a Burkean pragmatist, I'd say, or a Whig-Tory conservative...ten pages on the benighted state of commons-dependent peasants and a scant few paragraphs on the appropriative aspect of enclosure. Riveting, still.
Feb 07, 2012 08:16AM Add a comment
The Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648-1815

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D.A. is on page 50 of 708 of The Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648-1815
Through "Communication" and into "People" and I'm thoroughly percolatin'!
Feb 04, 2012 10:51AM Add a comment
The Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648-1815

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D.A. is on page 65 of 672 of The Landmark Xenophon's Hellenika (Landmark Series)
History's favorite gossipy Greek cavalry officer! What did Thrasymychus say to Alcibiades in Miletus? Why do Spartans wear thongs? Who will protect Athens from democracy? Now with more notes!
Jan 22, 2012 10:56AM Add a comment
The Landmark Xenophon's Hellenika (Landmark Series)

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D.A. is on page 150 of 499 of Thinking, Fast and Slow
System 1, System 2. Lizard vs. Monkey, in my usual formulation. Personality as the unstable outcome of cognitive competition. Bias. Heuristics. And under all, a simple message: you are, and are not, who you think (you are). sigh Why do our brains hate us?
Jan 22, 2012 10:52AM Add a comment
Thinking, Fast and Slow

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D.A. is 40% done with 11/22/63
Oh Dr. King, master of macabre mystere, you've emerged from your long sleep, returned to your understated mix of Poe, Lovecraft, and Great American Paperweight, though I could do with less of that last. Still, I can't complain (yet).
Jan 22, 2012 10:50AM Add a comment
11/22/63

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D.A. is on page 412 of 562 of Freedom
Goddamned Richard. F@cking Joey. F@cking Patty. Walter, you pathetic miserable waste. All you aching bloody threads in this miserable dark tapestry, learning to deserve your awful world. And Connie, angel, who deserves so much better than these awful f@cks. You are tragic cherry atop this motor-oil sundae, aren't you?
Nov 18, 2011 08:31AM Add a comment
Freedom

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D.A. is on page 198 of 562 of Freedom
A desperate and desolate book. Perfect.
Nov 07, 2011 10:48PM Add a comment
Freedom

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D.A. is on page 100 of 751 of John Adams
This book sucks, unless I read aloud in the voice of David McCullough. That's the only way to make it fun.
Feb 24, 2009 06:20AM Add a comment
John Adams

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D.A. is on page 100 of 751 of John Adams
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John Adams

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