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Currently reading: Trinity by Leon Uris.
A piece of historical fiction - I think - about Ireland in the 1900s. I haven't gotten a specific date from the book yet, but it's about a generation after the potato famine (someone who was a boy then is a grown man burying his father, now), so perhaps right around 1900? Ok then, anyway. It was slow for me to get into, because it was so filled with (1) vernacular, (2) Catholicism, and (3) history. For someone who plays around with the SCA, I am not very much a history person. Luckily![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
londo has been around for the first 12 chapters so that I can stop every few minutes and ask him for clarification. Including, "Wait, is this serious? Were Catholics really treated like this?" I foresee this book being a struggle for me, just in having to wrap my brain around the incredible cruelty of the human race.
Speaking of londo, he was in need of a book to take to the emergency room too (that's why I started mine) and, in spite of the knowledge he had about the series, picked up Robert Jordan's The Eye of the World from me. MUAH. He will now be sucked in!! Good thing I have most of the books to lend him... (And, according to the official website, there should only be a total of 12 or 13 in the final series. However, this doesn't count the prequels. ARGH.) ;)
The problem is that, in watching him read it, now I want to restart that series too. :-/
A piece of historical fiction - I think - about Ireland in the 1900s. I haven't gotten a specific date from the book yet, but it's about a generation after the potato famine (someone who was a boy then is a grown man burying his father, now), so perhaps right around 1900? Ok then, anyway. It was slow for me to get into, because it was so filled with (1) vernacular, (2) Catholicism, and (3) history. For someone who plays around with the SCA, I am not very much a history person. Luckily
londo has been around for the first 12 chapters so that I can stop every few minutes and ask him for clarification. Including, "Wait, is this serious? Were Catholics really treated like this?" I foresee this book being a struggle for me, just in having to wrap my brain around the incredible cruelty of the human race.Speaking of londo, he was in need of a book to take to the emergency room too (that's why I started mine) and, in spite of the knowledge he had about the series, picked up Robert Jordan's The Eye of the World from me. MUAH. He will now be sucked in!! Good thing I have most of the books to lend him... (And, according to the official website, there should only be a total of 12 or 13 in the final series. However, this doesn't count the prequels. ARGH.) ;)
The problem is that, in watching him read it, now I want to restart that series too. :-/
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Still, the first five books are a lot of fun, even if the series starts to wind down afterwards. Munchie's middle name is Perrin because Perrin was both Blix and I's favorite character. Yes, we're geeks and we know it ;)
My mother's side of the family was actually heavily involved in the beginnings of the IRA for your above stated reasons, but immigrated to America when things started getting out of control (i.e. bloody sunday, etc) Because the quarter of my genetics that isn't French is fighting Irish, baby ;P
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See above re: lack of history knowledge... I know that Bloody Sunday is an event that happened in that whole struggle, but that's about all I know. I wonder if I'll learn more from this book.
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The sequel is much less good.
I remember that book very fondly.
A Game of Thrones
Re: A Game of Thrones
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(Tolkien also has an excuse, since he never intended for the Lord of the Rings to be three seperate books to begin with.) ;)
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