Interesting reading from almost 100 years ago...
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Whether you agree or disagree with the author, this is something that should be read and pondered by every person who is old enough to read & knows how to think for himself or herself - ie educated individuals that want to learn from the past ...thank you Amazon for making this book available to purchase ...
647934
Fascinating to read about a time over 100 years ago when medicine was still in the dark ages.  The politics were eerily similar to today.  The use of diaries and newspaper reports made the book read like a novel instead of a work of nonfiction.
4652569
This  book happened to have been written by a former high school classmate of mine, which is why I was interested in buying it. It is an interesting book about her grandparents and the struggles they went through during life in the old days (early 20th century). I love stories during that time period, and have thoroughly enjoyed reading it.
689704
This is an old text but the reading is comfortable.  Interesting information and is like going back 100 years.  Price is right for some relaxing "olden days" lore from the woods.  Would be helpful for some "survivalist"  people.
3140450
Very interesting text from ancient times.

Sometimes it is good to read directly what people said thousands of years ago without a cinematic interpretation
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This is not an easy read for those that are not in the computer industry.  That being said, it is a nice history of the growth and development of the technology world over the past 150 years. I found it very interesting.
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Interesting to see  or hear how the races treated each other at the the late 1800s and the early 1900s.
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Very interesting book about life in the late 1800's to the early 1900's. It was interesting to read about how one family managed living in that era. It amazed me reading about all the things they made and what they made it from. Back in that era neighbors actually helped neighbors. Everyone worked together. Kids helped their parents with chores and cooking, the played outside, swam in the creeks and rivers.
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I enjoyed reading this book about life in the mid 1800s for a devout Catholic family.  Somehow it
 is hard to believe that such religious prejudice was prevalent against Catholic, but it does explain some stories I remember hearings from my grandparent s.
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Older Information, but is a Very Good Books!!!!
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An opinionated history of mystery stories "from the detective story to the crime novel", it's necessarily dated (published in 1972) but still interesting and informative. I found Mortal Consequences especially helpful for identifying and recommending older works of which I was unaware, many of which are still available at reasonable prices, and a number of which are free on Amazon for Kindle or through Project Gutenberg.
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I enjoyed reading it but I wished the sources were better documented up considering it was published in 1897 I understand.  Reading the book was a bit of a challenge since there were terms I didn't understand.
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I thought it was pretty amazing to read that even as far back as 55 B.C., people had these thoughts: Lucretius. He even argued that the world can be accounted for in terms of atoms that are in perpetual motion. 55 B.C., that's pretty cool. Jumping forward in time, the piece by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1811) is way more explicit than I expected. He was expelled from Oxford and Cambridge universities, but his text survived. Dawkins, Dennett and Weinberg were inspiring. After reading a bunch though, I got a little bit depressed, because they were mostly about the bad aspects of religion, less about the good aspects of atheism. I want to see the sun. I see the sun, it's right there. Look, look! Maybe an idea for the next edition.
1838947
This is a very interesting and informative book.  Because it was published some decades ago, it only gives an incomplete picture, but it's good reading, and for what it is, it's good, and I'd recommend it.
4355574
Took me forever to track this book down. While I'm not quite finished, and will update when I do likely, I really find this read engrossing and interesting, especially for the times. While not addressing the subjects of gender equality well, and portraying lesbians as possibly cult-like at times, it is a good and moving story from half a century ago.

Oddly enough, I discovered this book because it constantly appears on the bookshelf in the background on "Leave it to Beaver". In fact, I notice that it moves places on their shelf between episodes, meaning they are reading it. There's also one where they actually take it off the shelf to make room for another book and move it to a lower shelf (apparently Moon Vow needs to be easier to reach than Ivanhoe). I just needed to know what the Cleaver's were so crazy about, and while I see why someone would want to read the book, I'm surprised it was the Cleavers. They're a bit too conservative for this lesbian stuff.
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Found this quite interesting so far. Just got book and am about 1/2 thru it. It's a little hard reading and found myself flipping back pages for names. Kind of jumps around and sometimes found myself wanting more information on the why and how come reasons. For the history buff, it is informative reading. Gives you insight to what - why some things were the way it was.
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The book is an interesting read from the perspective that it was written in 1906, and the author envisions a society where Christianity, and particularly Catholicism is outlawed.  Though the environment is extremely anti-Christian, the philosophy of those opposed to Christianity is illustrated, and that illustration is timely to today's society.  The oppression of faith, by non-believers, and then even by those who lose their faith, has  a certain modern day ring to it.  A worthy read, even recommended by Pope Francis.