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Megan Hyler _egan_yler — I had tried in the past to read this first volume of Churchill's A HIstory Of The English-Speaking Peoples, but I was only able to get about two thirds of the way through on my first attempt. After seeing the Churchill War Rooms in London a few months ago and imagining the Prime Minister escaping from his war responsibilities into Merrie Olde England, I was inspired to give it another try. The Birth Of Britain, as I said, is the first of four volumes in Churchill's definitive history of England and America (but mostly England). It begins by giving the reader the lay of the land, literally - describing the islands that would someday become Britain and the fierce pagan tribes that lived there. The story progresses through Britannia's time as a Roman colony, the Saxon rule, the Norman invasion, the long line of ferocious and/or feeble-minded Plantagenet kings and then the Wars between the Red Rose of Lancaster and the White Rose of York. (Interesting tidbit - York, the actual city, was a Lancastrian stronghold.) The story ends with the marriage between Elizabeth of York and Henry Tudor and the inception of the Tudor dynasty. I enjoy reading history and I am absolutely looking forward to the next installment. It certainly helps that I was recently in England and Scotland, so I shuddered a little more at the thought of the little princes, Edward V and his little brother, locked up in the Tower, and it was easy for me to visualize the Roman legions walking down their famous roads after seeing the York Castle Museum. But you don't have to have traveled in England to learn from and enjoy Churchill's history. He fills in the gaps between the well-known periods and personalities and explains in detail how various events contributed to British society today. He also has a gift for the turn of a phrase - for example, characterizing Warwick the King-maker's having both Edward IV and Henry VI, the two quarreling kings, as hostages at the same time as "a remarkable achievement for any subject." Churchill's history is never dry!

Zhao Zhao 107640864839ec — I didn't like that it used a bad word several times. The premise of the book is interesting, but the story is just okay. It's not one I would particularly recommend.

Edu Durán edu_duran_ — If you don't hate Brandon Tietz's protagonist, Aidin, within the first ten pages of this novel I seriously question the software of your moral GPS. If you don't desperately want to be Aidin by the last ten pages you and I didn't read the same book. Out of Touch is a novel about bizarre changes. As if caught by an atomic powered puberty, our anti-hero finds himself the victim of an unknown medical condition which leaves him entirely devoid of feeling. A cumbersome and metaphorical position for the holder of a limitless AmEx, plenty of uncut coke, a marshmallow cereal stash of pharmaceuticals and the women who er...ehm "love" him for it. As the standard accouterments of the asshole playboy becoming fleeting reveries of feeling, Out of Touch shapes into a fantastic parable for growing up. Tietz writes like a mid-westerner. His voice is distinct and direct. Being a thoroughly modern novel Tietz breaks all the right rules when it comes to writing. Less like a novel, less even than a speech, Out of Touch is like he's telling you his own story over a bottle of Cristal at a velvet roped club. Conversational, ignoring grammar where necessary for the sake of sounding spoken rather than read; this work is closer to poetry in that way. The novel has its bumps. I caught spelling and other non-helpful (see above) grammatical errors. The middle of the book hiccuped somewhat. The action gets lost, the voices of all the characters lose their distinction and began to sound like ventriloquists of each other. In the end it all works out alright though. Literally. Trying to stay on the safe side of spoiling I'll just say that it's a whiplash ending. Not a "my lawyer will hear about this" twisted-metal whiplash, more the long lines for admission, zero to sixty in 3 or less and "is it over already?" kind. A roller coaster you will have to ride more than once. What's more, the ending was as thick a story as the entire preceding novel and twice as ballsy. Quite a feat and quite a save. Read this book. A must for Palahniuk and Easton-Ellis fans, Tietz successfully pays homage to some literary heavy weights and is easily elbowing his way to their stack on the shelf.