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5:46 AM

Can anyone recommend authors with a writing style similar to that of Ron Chernow? I have read all his books and cannot get enough of that fluent prose.

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Gareth Rees

7:51 AM

@codemonkey Pierre Berton

Tsundoku

8:27 AM

twitter.com/tprstly/status/1308654486815215616

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Tsundoku

10:17 AM

That question about Ron Chernow can be used as inspiration for a new question: "What aspects of Ron Chernow's writing style make it fluent?"

Tsundoku

10:56 AM

@NorthLæraðr I will probably expand my answer to the "what is literature" question later, since it currently only covers discussions from the English-speaking world. I got some German books from the library.

Napoleon Wilson

11:20 AM

@Tsundoku That might be an interesting question, but it also hinges largely on who calls it "fluent" and what they understand as such.

Tsundoku

11:58 AM

@NapoleonWilson I think the question should be asked by someone who has read some of Chernow's works and regards his prose as fluent, so they can at least give some vague indication of why they have that perception.

Bookworm

12:39 PM

Q: What does this gesture mean?

In Scott Turow's legal mystery The Last Trial, the point of view character is an old man. Pinky is his grand-daughter. The following passage occurs near the end of the book: Pinky says nothing to him [Lep], but instead strikes one index finger against the other, as if making fire. The gesture se...

scott-turow

Bookworm

1:04 PM

Q: Question about lyrics of an "ENIGMA" song

A sentence in an "ENIGMA" song is like " when the lamb settles, certainly, see you, silence how over the sky? when the lamb settles is Biblical. But I would like to know, what is the meaning of the line and what does the line imply?

meaning song-lyrics the-bible

Tsundoku

1:28 PM

@Bookworm Feel free to air quote that question ;-)

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North Læraðr

2:59 PM

@Tsundoku hehe

Eddie Kal

3:14 PM

@Tsundoku What question?

North Læraðr

@EddieKal What does this gesture mean

Eddie Kal

@NorthLæraðr That's the Scott Turow question? I am asking about Ron Chernow

North Læraðr

@EddieKal oh ic

Eddie Kal

Btw I consider Turow a great non-fiction writer. It seems his fiction works are more commercially successful though.

Tsundoku

3:36 PM

@EddieKal This question asked in chat.

Tsundoku

4:06 PM

@Bookworm I checked the same Wikipedia article as @Spagirl but overlooked the gesture for "shame" because I searched the page using "index" instead of "fore[finger]" :-/

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Bookworm

5:40 PM

Q: Significance of the names Silim, Tur, and Irij for the sons of Feridoun?

In the second book of the Shahnameh, King Feridoun tests his three sons by appearing to them as a dragon. The eldest son runs away, the middle one takes up arms against the monster, and the youngest one seeks to cow it with words. Afterwards, Feridoun gives his son names according to this event: "...