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My buddy and I finished 'The Last Gunfight' by Jeff Guinn a few weeks ago. It's an honest account of what happened at and leading up to the O.K. Corral in 1881. It was a very, very good read that completely altered my perception of the wild west, cowboys, boomtowns, whores, the Earps and that notorious gunfight. I strongly recommend it.

And today marks the end of 'A Tale of Two Cities' by Charles Dickens. It proved to be one of the longest short novels (372 pp) I've ever read, but I'm glad I muddled through. The ending is pretty good. The reading was often torturous - with pages going by with my not having the slightest idea what I'd just read. I don't recommend it unless it's on your bucket list for some weird reason.

If you have any recommendations, please post 'em here. We're trying not to do too many novels and no post-1859 war books. Biographies, histories, and books that teach something interesting are right up our alley. I may try 'Relativity: The Special and the General Theory' by Albert Einstein next. The cover's byline calls it "A Clear Explanation That Anyone Can Understand" - but I've got my doubts! Einstein's preface claims it is written for those readers "who are not conversant with the mathematical apparatus of theoretical physics," so it sounds like it was written for me!




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