Will Monk

Writing a history of the American Revolution. South Jersey native. University of Kentucky grad.

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@Jax1331 I thought Zdan would run away with it, and Murphy winning was a pleasant surprise. I genuinely hope the national and local party supports him.

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@MicahJRasmussen @MattFriedmanNJ It seems more interesting that he won two counties and came in second in one county where he was placed last, and did not finish last anywhere. Suggesting he had a go GOTV effort or a good statewide network.

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@MattFriedmanNJ Murphy was first or second in 20 of 21 counties, which cannot be luck or placement. Also the only one to not finish last in any county. Interesting. @wildstein

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@DrDavidVernon I am 63, and just read it for the first time this year, and you are 100% correct. Every page was well written.

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@LuisEAlegria1 Its on the internet under the New Yorker website. No cheating with wikipedia!

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@mikemizov I am a big fan of chapter titles: Le Morte d'Arthur, Don Quixote, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Count of Monte Cristo, Tom Jones, and so on.

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@dolphinsands I nominate Carl Sandburg. @DurrellSociety

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@ohcapideas I happily confess. I am a Robert Caro nerd, and the interviews and discoveries he did with the first three volumes is awesome. I wonder if he can discover something new or unique about the Johnson presidency now that the people in it can no longer be interviewed.

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Yet another example of what an author could do with the American Revolution ( or the Civil War, or the grand history of America itself ). I once owed this whole series and might still have it somewhere in my boxes of books.

[ThinkingWest @thinkingwest]

Will Durant was a 20th-century American historian and philosopher most known for his 11-volume “Story of Civilization,” telling the history of both eastern and western civilizations.

His work led him to conclude that all cultures follow a predictable pattern…

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@thebasecreates I enjoyed the Kenneth Branagh movie and saw it three or four times before I read the introduction to Henry V in the Riverside Shakespeare, which said Henry is not a genuine hero because he never loses. And I cannot think of the play the same way as before.

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@paul_jkrause A better question: Faulkner has a reputation for being a difficult read, and the only thing I remember from high school is a sentence that took up a whole page, so what would you recommend as a first novel to introduce a reader to him? (As you can guess, I like Hemingway)

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@BBGreatMoments I was at the Toronto Skydome for a game between the Indians and Blue Jays, either 1995 or 1996, and when Albert Belle came up to bat at least twenty (but maybe fifty) people around the stadium started ringing cowbells. True story.

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@alfredin4k I nominate Tim Henman

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@writeconscious If you are writing to win a prize, or complaining about those who win a prize, you are doing so for the wrong reason.

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Returning to a familiar topic: could non fiction, with citations, be written this way ? the early discoveries, the Conquest of Quebec, Yorktown, Saratoga, Lewis and Clark, the California Gold Rush, Gettysburg, the Wild West etc, all in 150 pages each? And written well?

[Unfiltered @quotesdaily100]

Short Novels Worth Reading on Your Travels:

1. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (55 pages)
2. The Pearl by John Steinbeck (90 pages)
3. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (130 pages)
4. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (96 pages)
5. On the Shortness of Life by Seneca (80 pages)
6. The Art of War by Sun Tzu (68 pages)
7. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (96 pages)
8. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (119 pages)
9. Night by Elie Wiesel (120 pages)
10. Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (120 pages)
11. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (112 pages)
12. Animal Farm by George Orwell (112 pages)
13. The Stranger by Albert Camus (123 pages)
14. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by R.L. Stevenson (141 pages)
15. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (152 pages)
16. Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin (159 pages)
17. Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote (160 pages)
18. The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells (160 pages)
19. Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl (165 pages)
20. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (180 pages)
21. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck (196 pages)
22. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger (201 pages)
23. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (206 pages)
24. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (208 pages)
25. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (216 pages)
26. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (224 pages)
27. Lord of the Flies by William Golding (224 pages)
28. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (254 pages)
29. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (256 pages)
30. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (258 pages)
31. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (286 pages)
32. The Road by Cormac McCarthy (287 pages)
33. The Chosen by Chaim Potok (284 pages)
34. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (195 pages)
35. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (246 pages)

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@PopHemingway The best sentence I ever read is the very first words from The Old Man and the Sea: the main character, the setting and the plot in a single sentence.

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@BertholdGambrel As soon as I saw this photo I thought of the bookstore at Harvard Yard which sells a lot of these @mcgill

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@For_Film_Fans It would have cost a marginal amount of money to film this in the actual Pine Barrens instead of wherever this actually is

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@AuthorGFAllen Santiago in The Old Man and the Sea.