Welcome to BookTalk. I too enjoy non-fiction and historical works. I also like to write.

I can't remember when I ate while reading but apparently I did. While revisiting a title, I found crumbs of an aging cookie in the fold of its pages.

Was watching Grit TV, and they aired Valdez Is Coming. It's a 1970s western film based on a novel by Elmore John Leonard Jr. At first, I didn't like it because it featured Burt Lancaster. His character didn't seem right for the part given I'm accustom to seeing him in non-westerns, but as it progres...

Of those listed, I prefer B rave New World due to the writing style. I also like that John's an ethical freethinker who doesn't simply accept the commands of Mustapha Mond. At the same time, the book is not a shouting match echo chamber. Mond allows John to speak, and John returns the favor. I read ...

I agree. There's irony in that once the island burns a ship spots them. It's almost as if had they not set fire to the island, they'd be forever stuck there. My guess is Golding went for a gut punch with the question asked at the end. You know, make those readers think about what they're probably no...

It's considered a classic due it's moral message which I take to be, "Don't burn up your world to win," or to quote Friedrich Nietzsche, “Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.” I have a hard time criticizing writers for how they chose to write a sto...

It wasn't until I entered college did I learned of Monty Python. My logic instructor would wheel in a large TV and show us logical constructs the show implemented.

Thanks for sharing the title. I checked out the sample on Amazon.

While browsing a college library book sale, I discovered a book titled Careers in Dope . https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61SujZhppkL.SR160,240_BG243,243,243.jpg Turns out, it’s an academic study on drug addiction in the late 1960s and early 1970s with an emphasis on heroin addiction. The book fe...

No problem. Good luck with your research.

Take a look at this link: https://www.zvab.com/Omni-die-Vollst%C3%A4ndiges-Marienbuch-fromme-Christgl%C3%A4ubige/16077774656/bd If it's the same book, it indicates Berlin, 1850. I don't speak German, but an online translator from German to English indicates the title to be, Omni die. Complete St. Ma...