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I've been tempted to read the book that inspired it...

That's Thomas Pynchon's Mason and Dixon, right? I've thought about reading it, but I suppose it's low on my to-read list.

The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara, one of my all-time favorite books

So apparently my town library has this book, and in English, even! I think this is a sign. *puts it on hold* I'll let you know what I think after I read it. : )

By the way, I don't know if you saw me rec Doc, by Mary Doria Russell, in my journal? It's another 19th century US history book, kind of a Western (it's about Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday), but a very low-key one, and very focused on the characters. It's such a warm-hearted and human book, and I think you'd enjoy it.

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Killer Angels is ostensibly about one three-day series of battles in one particular war, but I think of it more as a sort of Shakespearean tragedy. Yes, they're all real people and it's based as closely as the author could manage on actual events and real writings by those people, or what was written at the time about them. Historical RPF that won a Pulitzer for fiction; I love it. But for me, it's all about the feeeeelings. It breaks me so beautifully. *wry grin*

I have your book rec post open in a tab, along with a couple of others, but have been AFK a good deal the last week or more, so I'm still playing catch-up. I will happily anticipate learning more. :-)

ETA: Oh, and re Mason & Dixon, yes, it's the Pynchon book. I'm not sure I have the tenacity for it, particularly given all the other things that have higher priority on my reading list (including a lot of neglected fanfic, yikes). But the subject matter would be fascinating. *wistful*

Edited Date: 2012-08-21 12:47 am (UTC)

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