What book are you reading? And what do you like about it?

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The Something Awful Forums > Main > General Bullshit > What book are you reading? And what do you like about it?

Vile_Nihlist666: Jan 15, 2009; I'm a special kind of asshole!

Started reading a book on Bleeding Kansas, and the events leading to the tensions that caused the American Civil War:

Which I am thoroughly enjoying because writing like:

Jay Monaghan posted:

American Patriots had fought George III, and embattled frontiersmen could yet conquer King Cotton-Bobbin.

The author roasts pro slavery figures on a personal level fairly regularly, as well, which is shocking for a book written in 1955 by a man born in the 1890s.

Vile_Nihlist666 fucked around with this message at 13:04 on Apr 27, 2024

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Vile_Nihlist666: Jan 15, 2009; I'm a special kind of asshole!

Bottom Liner posted:

Ok, I'm sold. I've been wanting to read more american history and this sounds great in topic fraught with bullshit

The only biography on the author I can find

A reivew on this site gives an overview of what to expect.

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