A favorite book....

I love reading classics for history,

it is definatly the best thing that ever happened

to me in School :)

You see I have a rather bad habit
of skipping around in a book,
especially if what is happening
isn't terribly interesting.

Well,
in reading a book for school,
you have to read only so many chapters a day,
no matter if they're boring or VERY interesting.
I followed the rules-
although I sometimes read ahead-
and I really enjoyed all my books,
AND understood them,
much better than similar books

I had read early on my own.

A favorite of mine is:
THE TALISMAN
by Sir Walter Scott.

It's a 'Romanticized' account of
The Third Crusade with Richard the Lion-heart,
Phillip of France and Count Leopold of Austria.
There are many different characters:
a loyal dog who is saved from death and then revels a traitor,
a dwarf who is everywhere he's not supposed to be,
a hermit who is doing penance for a sin and pops in and out of the story,
either clearing things up or muddling them more,

a pretty Queen who likes to be entertained,

a knight with a secret,

a lady with proud honor....

[the last is not a contradiction:)]

Anyway, it's a very intertaining book,

it's not like Ivanhoe,

where the hero is ill or wounded

for 3/4ths of the book,

and has almost NO character development.

So if you're looking for a book to read, try it :)

And let me know what you think....

Oh, addition to a previous post:
Dad got to LEVEL 11 on his first try of
"Do You Know Your World?"