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Lädt ... Van Loon's Livesvon Hendrik Willem van Loon
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. It's been a long time since I read this, but every now and then it pops into my memory. Today I went and looked it up at the library for old times' sake. It's a history-ish book... by which I mean, it's about a couple of fellows who are miraculously able to invite any historical figure they want to have dinner with them. Two things from it have always stuck in my mind: when Robespierre comes and makes a little guillotine to cut up his oranges, and when Emily Dickinson comes and secretes herself in an upstairs room, sending notes and poems floating down through the floorboards. It's very odd book, and extremely long. Many hundreds of pages. I can't remember why I checked it out exactly, I think I heard mention of it somewhere online years ago, then went and located it at my college library. It hadn't been checked out for over twenty years, I think. Indeed, a very obscure and unusual book. While Van Loon's Lives is reminiscent of Steve Allen's Meeting of Minds in bringing historical personalities to life in contemporary times, the conversations among the characters is sometimes perceptive, sometimes vapid, and often dated. Discovered on the faux library shelf of a pub, it did provide considerable amusement, but as history it's weak. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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Regretfully the author had to spoil his work by interrupting the story to expound his biases and prejudices, some of which come across as very dated nowadays. ( )