Book List

[thefinestmusic]

Okay, seriously. So many people have told me to read things I've forgotten most of them, and I have so many of my own that I think a list and a bit of organization is the proper course of action.

Comments

[gileonnen]

Oooh, definitely read the books after Regeneration--they entirely deserve it, although I'm not sure they're as good. And I'm so very glad I friended you; you seem to share most of my academic interests. ^___^

[thefinestmusic]

*grins* It's definitely on my list of Things To Do. I do rather want to read a biography and maybe a history of the war first, though, so I have a single clue what is going on in the background. I fear my knowledge of WWI is pitiful. :(

[gileonnen]

Aww, that's sad. WWI is one of my primary areas of study--history major, and that nonsense. ^_~

[thefinestmusic]

I'm starting to get more interested in it, because of that book; I think I avoided it for so long because I had to study WWII every other year in school and by the end of it wanted to claw my eyes out.

Eee, history majors! I'm a- pseudo history major. I really don't know what I'm doing yet. I'll either be a history major or an English major or both. XD If you couldn't tell by my reading list, I'm interested in Irish history. Particularly that of criminals. Um.

[gileonnen]

Aww, but WWI is so ideologically different that there can hardly be comparison between the two. I acknowledge that it was also a senseless, profitless bloodfest that destroyed dozens of nations and led directly into WWII ... and yet in many ways, it was the last war fought with a spirit of idealism. It was the last war fought with the conviction that war really could be ended.

I'm actually an English and history double-major, and so I understand entirely--my areas of focus are colonial and post-colonial history and literature, with a particular emphasis on Victorian conceptions of the colonized, Indian revolts, and racially-motivated theories of criminology and pathology. I also work very hard to squeeze WWI in there with its colonized conscripts and the colonial motivations in the Arab theatre.

... but Irish history is fascinating, too, and I'd be very pleased to know which of your to-read books you'd recommend, once you've read them. ^___^