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I am an avid reader of books.

I especially enjoy History, Literature, and Mysteries.

I am spending 2011 reading from the Penguin Classics.

I want to understand what happened and why. I try and take what I learn from reading about other times and cultures and use it to help make sense of things going on today. I... more »

I am an avid reader of books.

I especially enjoy History, Literature, and Mysteries.

I am spending 2011 reading from the Penguin Classics.

I want to understand what happened and why. I try and take what I learn from reading about other times and cultures and use it to help make sense of things going on today. I enjoy English murder mysteries, Asian history, Greek & Roman History, Theology, historical fiction, Harry Potter, P G Wodehouse, Evelyn Waugh, Yukio Mishima, Haruki Murakami, Anthony Tollope, Anthony Powell, and William Vollmann to name just a few.

I greatly enjoy the works of Shakespeare, although after a lifetime defending the guy from Stratford, I am now a convinced supporter of the Earl of Oxford as the author of the plays(I'm rethinking this once again). New interests include those crazy Elizabethans --Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, and Fulke Greville-- to name a few.I am also reading literature and history from the 1920's and 1930's. I think it was a fascinating time of turbulent change and when so much could have turned out so differently.

I read a lot of older, longer books. Many are overlooked fonts of wisdom.

My main profile: http://encyclomundi.org/wiki/User:Encyclom

My wiki: http://encyclomundi.org

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