Learning history from novels

[Mendalla]

Actually, I have a number of Bible versions on my Kindle. I also sometimes listen to the audio bibles at http://biblegateway.com

Plenty of ebook editions and Bible apps to choose from, too. Just scout around until you find the one you want. Easy to search and cite, too.

 

[Jaebius]

Strange. Can't even say it's a generation gap because you and I are of a similar age IIRC. I just find that I can't look at a screen, even an e-ink one, for long enough to really get lost in a book.

As a sensing feeler, I find I need something more stimulating to the senses than ink on paper. I prefer something audio or, better yet, audio-visual.

 

[Luce NDs]

I can easily get lost in a tome ... a bete'r friend than most of my mortal acquaintances ...

 

[Delightful Life]

As a sensing feeler, I find I need something more stimulating to the senses than ink on paper. I prefer something audio or, better yet, audio-visual.

Ive really enjoyed Like Douglas Rushkoff's graphic novel Testsment which was an adaption of some narratives in the Hebrew Bible

Which reminds me have you ever come across a comic or graphic novel version of the bibble? That would be so neet...apparently it is the best way to learn with both words n images...

 

[Carolla]

I really enjoyed Follet's Pillars of the Earth - centred on the people involved with building a cathedral in medieval times - intereting piece of history I knew nothing about.

Presently, I'm reading Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden - takes place during WW1 - trench life up close and personal; hard to imagine really.

I'm not a history buff - but I do enjoy a good story - so for me, these works of historical fiction contain a bit of both. Sometimes I'm inspired to search out more info on the history bits.

 

[Delightful Life]

Heres a group who is attempting to do a virtual experience of a certain popular anthology
http://www.immersivefaith.com
I wonder if it works with google cardboard

 

[Jaebius]

Ive really enjoyed Like Douglas Rushkoff's graphic novel Testsment which was an adaption of some narratives in the Hebrew Bible

Which reminds me have you ever come across a comic or graphic novel version of the bibble? That would be so neet...apparently it is the best way to learn with both words n images...

 

[Luce NDs]

I liked Christopher Moore's Lamb ... on de Hebrew de Lights or divers actions requiring a plunge into the abstract world ...

Bloody Cereus satyrs ... Mu eL skinning bleus ... when light's friend was discovered as blip in space ... the dot Eire?

 

[Mendalla]

I liked Christopher Moore's Lamb ... on de Hebrew de Lights or divers actions requiring a plunge into the abstract world ...

Bloody Cereus satyrs ... Mu eL skinning bleus ... when light's friend was discovered as blip in space ... the dot Eire?

His Sacre Bleu is good, too. A comic horror-mystery set amidst the Impressionists and Post-impressionists. I read it around the time I went to Paris, too, so I actually saw some of the paintings he references in the Orsay (the train station turned art gallery that houses a beautiful collection of art from that period). His portrayal of Toulouse-Lautrec is especially enjoyable.

 

[Luce NDs]

His Sacre Bleu is good, too. A comic horror-mystery set amidst the Impressionists and Post-impressionists. I read it around the time I went to Paris, too, so I actually saw some of the paintings he references in the Orsay (the train station turned art gallery that houses a beautiful collection of art from that period). His portrayal of Toulouse-Lautrec is especially enjoyable.

Yup,
Read that too ... me the well-red one ... a daemon from the underworld of myths ... a bit red in the face from restraining my breath from laughter ... authorities don't like it ...

 

[Mrs.Anteater]

I am presently in my novel reading the beginning of WW2. It struck me today, how easy it is to forget the cruelty of war, having lived comfortably in peace since 1945 with an increasing living standard in the western world- and how we ignored and used the countries that were not so fortunate. Now, those people come to us and the reaction is to go conservative, close borders, listen to people like Trump. As it was before the WW- the anti Jewish , anti communism tendencies were not just in one country. Now we are having anti Islamic movement, politicians appealing by using fears (again) and people voting out of feeling more so than reason (see Britain and the EU). How stable is our Democracy, considering that most people really do not have a broad knowledge of what is going on in the world and what history we are coming from?