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Adam C is planning to read The Shawl.
Adam C is planning to read The Name of the Wind.
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Adam C is now reading The Odyssey.
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Adam C is planning to read Halfway to Heaven: My White-knuckled--and Knuckle-headed--Quest for the Rocky Mountain High.
Adam C reviewed The Iliad 1 month ago.
“ No Trojan Horse??? ”
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I really enjoyed it. It gave a good theory of how/ why certain races became more powerful than others. It was merely chance. The saying is true, location, location, location.
The truth about drug companies was the book I read regarding the pimping of prescription medicine.
Just a reminder about 1491: shelfari community gave it 4 stars and amazon community gave it 4.5 stars. So that puts you in the "minority" perspective in terms of rating......
Adam,I added the "fifth" star because the book was four but I went to a presentation by the author. The presentation added the fifth star because the information and experience made the book better. He signed the book afterward. You could call it a "author presentation fifth star". Sorry to let you down!
Letters from Mexico /Hernán Cortés; Anthony Pagden1986English Book Book lx, 563 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.New Haven : Yale University Press, ; ISBN: 0300037244 *** This is like reading a primary source of the experiences of Cortez. Malinche :slave princess of Cortez /Gloria Durán1993English Book Book : Juvenile audience x, 221 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Hamden, Conn. : Linnet Books, ; ISBN: 0208023437 (alk. paper) 9780208023438 (alk. paper)A biography of La Malinche, the Aztec noblewoman who served as translator, interpreter, and mistress to Cortez during the Spanish conquest of Mexico in 1520.Conquest :Montezuma, Cortés, and the fall of Old Mexico /Hugh Thomas1993English Book Book xx, 812 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.New York : Simon & Schuster, ; ISBN: 0671705180 *** This one can be compared with the very recent one below.Conquistador :Hernán Cortés, King Montezuma, and the last stand of the Aztecs /Buddy Levy2008English Book Book x, 429 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 22 cm.New York : Bantam Books, ; ISBN: 9780553805383 (hbk.) 055380538X (hbk.)In 1519, Hernán Cortés arrived on the shores of Mexico with a roughshod crew of adventurers and the intent to expand the Spanish empire. Along the way, this brash and roguish conquistador schemed to convert the native inhabitants to Catholicism and carry off a fortune in gold. In Tenochtitlán, the City of Dreams, Cortés met his Aztec counterpart, Montezuma: king, divinity, ruler of a complex and sophisticated civilization with fifteen million people, and commander of the most powerful military machine in the Americas....Good luck. Are you enjoying the book about the incas?
Definitely read Your Inner Fish. It is a very interesting read, and you should be able to get through it in no time.
Don't tell her Adam... If you are looking for a good book go for "Forgotten Soldier" by Guy Sajer. Best autobiography of World War II I have read so far. German soldier's account, but it is so details he has been of accused of making the whole thing up.We don't sjare too many books in common.
WTF does eamus catuli mean please!And yes, he does stink. But I think it is caused by the uniform :)
