Hello again, nothing particularly on my mind concerning history right now but I'm sure something will come; it truly is an inexhaustable subject to study and to discuss.

Though I was interupted reading it by my novels for english I have lately been reading, as I came to find out, a famous book entitled "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" by William Shirer. I just happened to glance at it when I was in the library near where I live while getting material for my Karl Marx essay. So I checked it out from the library and was blown away by how much I liked it once I began reading. Its quite a hefty book, with just over 1000 pages. Usually when I pick up a book to read such as this one I do it to look smart, though I am sincerely interested in its content. Book after book though of this type I would start and then put down because it was wayyyyy to dry and boring to read. I'm not saying the content was boring, but the way it's written is the way that appeals to old history professors who sit in their studies all day with a blanket wrapped around their legs. Ok, ok. I know I do that sometimes haha but I can't do it for very long, I'm way to fidgety. Anyway, this book is written in a way that grabs your attention when you read even though the content would be the same as any other huge non-fiction book on WW2 or whatever. I think the reason why it's not dry and boring is because it was written by a reporter that was in Nazi Germany before, during, and after the war. So, Shirer not only has eyewitness experience of the events that he is talking about he also has the writing ability of a newspaper author in the 1940's. It combines the interesting and short facts of a newspaper article with the long drawn out facts of a 1000 page history book.

Well, until I read more of the book that's all I have to say. Frig...I love history.
-A History Student