quote:Originally posted by Aude Sapere:
It does not have a lot of big words, so you could probably understand it, heck, even I did who only paid attention in Civil War seminars to do seminar paper and get out of there after doing my reading and writing my essays.
It is about the Tennessee Valley and military occupation. The "villain" is Maj. Gen. Ivan Turchin of the Union Army. There are no heroes, as the people of the Valley were so broken as to be starving after both armies got their food and potential food. When the war was over, over 3/4 of the people of the Tennessee were dependent upon rations doled out by the Freedmen's Bureau for basic dietary needs. And I mean basic.
LOL.. good come back
however, the "no" was because i don't care.
of all the things people get into, the civil war was one i never understood.
i mean, if you wanan play-pretend and wear silly costumes and run around and pretend you connect with those guys, then get in your SUV when your done and drive to your air conditioned home and order up a pizza and knock back a 6er because you really felt liek you were a part of history out there today, you go right ahead.
however, i have no interest in it, not en re-enacting, or reading books or seeing movies or tv shows on the subject of the civil war.
i was born and raised in alabama, and i've had the civil war shoved in my face until i'm sick of it. maybe there were god awful things that your friend wrote about, but i'm not interested. just like i'm not interested in a national whitey month.
if it involves the confederacy, the union, the war between the states, the civil war, or god help us ' the war of northern aggression'
i'm not watching it, not reading it, not listening to it.
THAT is why i sad no to your buddies book.
and with the subject matter in mind, i'm sure it doesn't use a lot of big words. if the only thing he can come up with to write about is the civil war, i wouldn't expect him to use many big words at all.
(there, we both took petty shots, are we even now?)