Search

Search only in certain items:

40x40

Lauren Hutton recommended The Cantos in Books (curated)

 
The Cantos
The Cantos
Ezra Pound | 1996
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Favorite

"You learn, cry and laugh, and have to understand history — and have to read 26 languages. If only he hadn't gone crazy. He was a wizard."

Source
  
The Thirty Years War
The Thirty Years War
C.V. Wedgwood | 2005 | Biography, History & Politics
(0 Ratings)
Book Favorite

"God, I love this book. It's the history of an utterly depressing war with no real nobility, that ultimately descends into cannibalism. Right up my alley."

Source
  
40x40

QuestLove recommended Vegan Soul Kitchen in Books (curated)

 
Vegan Soul Kitchen
Vegan Soul Kitchen
Bryant Terry | 2009 | Food & Drink
(0 Ratings)
Book Favorite

"It has recipes in it, but it also talks about the social and racial history of soul food. It inspired my 200-day run with vegetarianism."

Source
  
40x40

James Franco recommended Blood Meridian in Books (curated)

 
Blood Meridian
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy | 2010 | Fiction & Poetry
3.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Favorite

"This is the western to end all westerns. Its rich tableaux of the borderlands mixed with unrelenting violence creates an inimitable portrait of our country's history."

Source
  
40x40

Marcel Dzama recommended Gimme Shelter (2014) in Movies (curated)

 
Gimme Shelter (2014)
Gimme Shelter (2014)
2014 | Drama
(0 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"The best music documentary ever made, period. It is history on film chronicling the end of the sixties. Watch it all fall apart before your eyes."

Source
  
The Small Backs of Children
The Small Backs of Children
(0 Ratings)
Book Favorite

"Yuknavitch takes on art, sex, and the traumas of history in a gut-punch of a novel that reads like nothing else in current American fiction."

Source
  
Video

Warframe - Plains of Eidolon Gameplay Demo | PS4

For the first time in Warframe history, explore, fight, journey, and fly through the open Landscapes of Planet Earth.

  
The Double Agents (Men at War, #6)
The Double Agents (Men at War, #6)
W.E.B. Griffin | 2007 | Fiction & Poetry
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
The Double Agents continues the adventures of Dick Canidy and the O.S.S. as they try to stop Hitler and the Nazi's. It is well written and researched as all of Griffin's books. Each time I read one it is like meeting up with old friends. As for the plot there is just enough history added in with the fictional characters to appeal to any history buff.
  
DA
Dickens and Christmas
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
In Dickens and Christmas, Lucinda Hawksley presents the reader with the social history of Christmas along side the personal history of Charles Dickens. The book explains where many of are modern festive traditions originated from we also learn where Dickens inspiration for many of his festive tales come from. This book would make a ideal Christmas gift for the love one who love Christmas and Charles Dickens.
  
Guns, Germs and Steel
Guns, Germs and Steel
Jared Diamond | 1998 | History & Politics, Philosophy, Psychology & Social Sciences
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
As a history nerd, with a degree in history, I can't believe I waited until now to read this book. I think it was deemed 'too new' when I was in high school/college to be included in the curriculum.

The book obviously is about guns, germs, and steel, and compares/contrasts civilizations throughout the world. It was an interesting angle, and I really liked it.