RonMwangaguhung Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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@AgnesCallard Proust's Remembrance stays with you long after you are done reading it. But I return to Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage once a year -- around Christmastime -- to plumb the depths of that minor classic.

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@JamesFallows Also published bigot Charles "The Bell Curve" Murray for years ..

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@PatrickLuck @HeerJeet Herman Melville is my favorite American writer, hands down. He wrote one of The Great Books -- Moby Dick -- which is at the opposite end of a literary spectrum that includes situational writing. Melville is not writing about, say, being on the campaign trail with US Grant.

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What I loved most about the Ken Burns Country Music documentary is the ties between the origins of the Cater-Cash dynasties and the descended music of slavery, historically adjacent. @PBS @KenBurns

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@jerrysaltz The Annals by Tacitus took many, many tries. Largely because the amount of memorizing of the constellation of names was such a barrier when I was younger. But after reading The Twelve Caesars, a much less dry book, and getting a lot of the principles down, Tacitus finally clicked

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@AgnesCallard Proust's Remembrance stays with you long after you are done reading it. But I return to Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage once a year -- around Christmastime -- to plumb the depths of that minor classic.

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"Keep passing the open windows." ― John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire https://t.co/duFYk8TLhH

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@danavachon “As if you could kill time without injuring eternity” Thoreau

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@davidaKaplan Ellison's Invisible Man, when taken as an American sequel to Dostoevsky's Notes From the Underground, is better than the original.

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@PatrickLuck @HeerJeet Herman Melville is my favorite American writer, hands down. He wrote one of The Great Books -- Moby Dick -- which is at the opposite end of a literary spectrum that includes situational writing. Melville is not writing about, say, being on the campaign trail with US Grant.