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- Mon August 20th, 2012, 3:07 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Where Are You Now?
- Replies: 1456
- Views: 113115
- Fri August 17th, 2012, 7:48 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What Are You Reading? August 2012
- Replies: 134
- Views: 11749
[quote=""MLE""]I'm reading that too. What do you think of it so far?[/quote] I like the story, I'm about a third of the wat through. I do think there are some unrealistic elements, though, given that it's supposed to take place in the 11th C. The names, for one thing, how educated and literate so ma...
- Fri August 17th, 2012, 2:53 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What Are You Reading? August 2012
- Replies: 134
- Views: 11749
- Sun April 1st, 2012, 9:52 pm
- Forum: Chat
- Topic: Pinterest?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1172
- Fri March 30th, 2012, 3:00 am
- Forum: Feature of the Month
- Topic: March 2012 Feature of the Month: Trojan War Month
- Replies: 79
- Views: 8550
- Fri March 30th, 2012, 2:57 am
- Forum: Who Wrote It? What's the Title?
- Topic: Can't remember name of book. Help!
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1992
- Thu March 29th, 2012, 8:37 pm
- Forum: Member Reading Logs - 2012
- Topic: Ticia's 2012 Reading Log
- Replies: 41
- Views: 3764
Steve Berry 30. The Emperor's Tomb, 528 pp. I listened to this one on the CD player in my car. A fast-paced thriller with an ex-government operative, Russian agents, digging around among the terra-cotta warriors, and a secret eunuch brotherhood trying to influence the government succession in China....
- Tue March 27th, 2012, 12:06 am
- Forum: Feature of the Month
- Topic: March 2012 Feature of the Month: Trojan War Month
- Replies: 79
- Views: 8550
[quote=""annis""]Posted by TriciaRoma These days we're just as likely to look at Homer's heroes as being driven by pride, greed and ambition - so a certain irony there. Mind you, I'm not convinced that Homer didn't see them that way as well...[/quote] And many would ascribe those traits to Sam Houst...
- Mon March 26th, 2012, 6:12 pm
- Forum: Feature of the Month
- Topic: March 2012 Feature of the Month: Trojan War Month
- Replies: 79
- Views: 8550
I thought I was taking a break from Troy, but in reading Robert Morgan's, Lions of the West, about ten Americans who influenced the Westward Expansion, I read that Sam Houston, one of the ten, was profoundly influenced by Pope's translation of the Illiad and sought to "model himself on Homer's heros...
- Sun March 25th, 2012, 10:31 pm
- Forum: Chat
- Topic: Wish me luck!
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1904