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In reply to the discussion: What's the last book you read? How would rate it---5 being great ---1 being it is not a reread. [View all]mike_c
(36,281 posts)29. William Manchester's A World Lit Only By Fire...
...about the end of the dark age in Europe. I thoroughly enjoyed it, 5/5. I'm currently re-reading Manchester's biography of Churchill, The Last Lion. This is my third reading of The Last Lion, but the first time I've had a copy of the third volume. I'm re-reading the other volumes in preparation for the third. I'm very excited about it.
I'm also re-reading Manchester to prep for Churchill's own six volume history of WW2 and his four volume History Of The English Speaking Peoples. I've wanted to combine these thirteen volumes into one marathon read for years, and only just now have time to do it.
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What's the last book you read? How would rate it---5 being great ---1 being it is not a reread. [View all]
debm55
Mar 24
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TY, Dirvaen. You might want to try the library. You don't have to pay for the books and when you take them back , they
debm55
Mar 24
#5
I finished Octavia Butler's book 1 "Dawn" of her Xeogenisis/Lilith's Brood Trilogy...
electric_blue68
Mar 24
#10
Last one I finished was fiction - Victory City by Salman Rushdie; give it a 4
Backseat Driver
Mar 25
#18