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Old Aug 26th, 2008, 02:51 PM       
I've gone through the trouble of requesting most of these books at my library, some I am not able to get though; Edison's Eve, Final Exits (I'll probably buy this in the future), Second Sex, and Dragons of Eden. I didn't bother looking for the Machiavelli one since I don't have much interest in that.

Right Now I'm reading a Biography on Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson which I only picked up because of it's author Byron Farwell. I read "The Great Wars in Africa" a while back and really enjoyed it and just a week ago I read his Biography on Sir Richard Francis Burton which I really, really enjoyed. I'm not enjoying the Stonewall one nearly as much, one of the things I like about Byron's writing is his sense of humor and his ability to showcase all the eccentricities in these historical figures. Stonewall has a few goofy quirks but on a whole his a very serious character and the book really isn't geared towards the anecdotal like his other stuff but more towards pure military history which is definitely not my thing.
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