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VillageIdiot

As you can see from my bookshelf, I enjoy reading fiction and non-fiction. I am interested in learning about the world I live in and therefore, look for books about history and science. For escapism, I love reading spy novels and murder mysteries.

I love to travel (especially weekend getaways) but I don't read travel books; I like...more »
  • member since Thursday, August 9 2007

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  • Wesley F

    Wesley F says

    VilageIdiot,

    Nice shelf. I'm just starting mine out! Care to be friends?

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Miss Ann Thropic

    Miss Ann Thropic says

    Hi VillageIdiot,
    Love the screen name, and you have a great shelf. Can we be friends?

    posted 10 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Bookworm111

    Bookworm111 says

    Yes, I love Michael Connelly's books too; they're all great but the Det. Bosch ones are my favorites. :-)

    posted 10 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Ambur L

    Ambur L says

    Louis Lamour's The Walking Drum is one of my all time favorites. I am not a big western fan but that book (not a western) is amazing. I've tried to read some other stuff by him but it doesn't captivate me quite the same way.

    posted 12 months ago. ( send a note )
  • MCC91

    MCC91 says

    Hi, This will sound like a wimpout, but I can't give you specifics on factual errors. I can say that I know several people at the firm who were in meetings that were documented in the book. All of them say certain events did not transpire in the way the story is laid out. If I get more specific, it would reveal who they are. Generally though, when it comes to broad brush strokes, the tone of the book is accurate. By the way, did you enjoy the book? I thought it was sooooo long. I only finished it because I know some of the characters. If you want a good, but shorter Wall Street book, read Liar's Poker. It is really really funny. Although some of the characters there, like jgutfrend, also say that book is inaccuarte. But again, the broad brushstrokes on the tenor and tone of wall street, are great.

    posted 12 months ago. ( send a note )
  • golovin_benny

    golovin_benny says

    Hi VI~

    I sure do like Dickens but haven't read Bleak House. He's been a ritual for me since moving up here--every fall, to get ready for the dark time.

    Then, inversely, congruently, I pick some author who helps me come back into the light as it were...for the last 6 years it's been Faulkner, but these days I'm finding Chuck to be at least equally iluminating & Billy to be just as dark. Funny how we change, mature, develop as readers, eh?

    Boy I need a beer, or to sit under my sun lamp. I'm just kidding you, VI.

    posted 12 months ago. ( send a note )
  • golovin_benny

    golovin_benny says

    40 degrees?!? Wooo Heat Wave. It's been in the 20s & 30s here, which isn't so bad, but the wind--Boy O Boy.

    Enron--that's another heat wave. I myself am getting ready for winter with my anual reading of some Dickens work. This year: Oliver Twist. Dickens is always better than I expect--and a hoot to boot.

    I'll let you know what I choose next, if you want and I'm curious--where is "here?"

    Take care,

    B

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • golovin_benny

    golovin_benny says

    Hi Village

    How's things? What's new?

    I'm waiting on broken bottles,

    B

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Rob S

    Rob S says

    While I thought that Founding Brothers was a decent book its not one of my top recommendations in the Colonial/Revolutionary America genre. I would recommend more indepth biographies like Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow or John Adams by David McCullough - both are first rate.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • golovin_benny

    golovin_benny says

    I am much impressed with the David McCullogh on your shelves--so I am recommending these to you. Both are on my shelf, and if you're like me, they'll sit on your physical shelves maybe even years before you get around to reading them. But I have a feeling you'll like them--especially the first.

    A World Undone
    (WWI)

    A Peace to End All Peace
    (Ottoman Empire, creating of the Modern Middle East)

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • golovin_benny

    golovin_benny says

    VI~
    I have been honored on Shelfari at least twice this week-once by your friendship and once by someone asking me to recommend their next book.

    I like to think that I'm a good person to be friends with--what are you reading these days?

    B

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • golovin_benny

    golovin_benny says

    Hi Village~

    Thanks for the invite. It is a sunny day here, so instead of reading, I'm going to go outside.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )


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