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i find it hard to read anything but non-fiction.
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LittleWing sometime in July 2007 wrote:
Unfortunately, it's so elementary, and the big time investors behind the drive in the stock market aren't so stupid. This isn't the false economy of 2000.
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read something that will make you smarter.
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bart d. wrote:
A Farewell to Arms is also one of my favorites, but I'm a geek for the Spanish Civil War.
Have you read any of Orwell's essays on the subject? What a silly war, with intellectuals from Europe and America running off to fight someone else's war. All of those artists running around couldn't have helped the socialists millitarily.
A Farewell to Arms is also one of my favorites, but I'm a geek for the Spanish Civil War.
Have you read any of Orwell's essays on the subject? What a silly war, with intellectuals from Europe and America running off to fight someone else's war. All of those artists running around couldn't have helped the socialists millitarily.
I've read Homage to Catalonia about a dozen times; it's probably my favorite memior. And actually I think the militias and the International Brigades could have been melded into an effective force if not for the idiotic decisions of the communists in command, which Orwell stresses in HtC. The main problem for the Republic was that they didn't have enough foreign support. Had they gotten aid from anyone else but the Soviets, the communists couldn't have gained such a stranglehold on power.
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bart d. wrote:
simple schoolboy wrote:
bart d. wrote:
A Farewell to Arms is also one of my favorites, but I'm a geek for the Spanish Civil War.
Have you read any of Orwell's essays on the subject? What a silly war, with intellectuals from Europe and America running off to fight someone else's war. All of those artists running around couldn't have helped the socialists millitarily.
I've read Homage to Catalonia about a dozen times; it's probably my favorite memior. And actually I think the militias and the International Brigades could have been melded into an effective force if not for the idiotic decisions of the communists in command, which Orwell stresses in HtC. The main problem for the Republic was that they didn't have enough foreign support. Had they gotten aid from anyone else but the Soviets, the communists couldn't have gained such a stranglehold on power.
But if the communists and socialists had done better then maybe the Soviets would have learned the correct millitary lessons from the war, and thats no good at all.
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