(September 28, 2016 at 2:01 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: It's not for everyone. But the longer and more I dig into him, the more I love and appreciate what he did.

Point is, I find it easier to read Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley or Arthur Conan Doyle than Tolkien. The former all have a pretty modern way of telling their tales, the latter not so much. I even had less of a problem reading Shakepeare than I had with Tolkien. Something in his style just doesn't manage to draw me in. I know that's blasphemy for some people, but that's how it is.

I just struggle with books in general these days. Doesn't help that I'm an ADD-addled man in a world filled with distractions. I did blast through a few Pratchett novels last year and enjoyed them hugely, but aside from that and a few others I don't delve anywhere near as much as I'd like.

I don't get hurt by it. [shrugs]

(September 28, 2016 at 10:01 am)vorlon13 Wrote: Caligula


(who didn't see that coming?)

You saw him coming???

Holy crap I never knew your Vorlie Powers Of Perversity extended to time-travel!

Admiral Chester Nimitz.

(September 28, 2016 at 2:09 pm)Iroscato Wrote: I just struggle with books in general these days. Doesn't help that I'm an ADD-addled man in a world filled with distractions. I did blast through a few Pratchett novels last year and enjoyed them hugely, but aside from that and a few others I don't delve anywhere near as much as I'd like.

I'm sure I have at least something ADDish about me also...

I can't read either. Like, I mean, I can't read books.

I can't read!

Not literally obviously. But like this guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKdY9y8l7c8

Id never say any certain people get my full on admiration and respect looking back in history.

All these people who are remembered as great people usually have some dark aspects to them like they raped someone or they didn't invent all the things they said they invented and so on.

So if you're talking about favourite people in that sense then I just don't know.

To give a vague answer I'd say the people who helped pave the way for modern western civilisation, secularism, freedom of speech, technology improvements.

The people who I love to read about, think about and imagine I was there at the time I suppose are absolute bastards like ghengis Khan, Hitler, Alexander the Great, Tiberius, Caligula, the first Europeans who sailed to the Americas.
Basically the absolute cunts of history.

Nobody is perfect, yet many of us manage to get people to love us despite it.

Mine is probably Empress Wu. Just read the book Princesses Behaving Badly. It explains everything.

Maybe Charles Darwin, he could have been a bastard and those things didn't make it into the history books but I think he might be a safe bet.