Recommendations for old autobiographies or first hand accounts of events or times in history.
10k SATs for each one I like the sound of.
Just coming to the end of Rudyard Kipling's "something of myself".
Discussion
This is a little “boring” but The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Was a good read, he strives for moral perfection and it’s very interesting to read 🤜🤛
“Pianos and Their Makers” by Alfred Dolge is interesting. Written in 1911
Maybe needs to be a little less niche. Something cultural, political, economic/industrial. I want to get first hand perspectives and feeling for how things once were and how they have changed over the past few hundred years in the major western counties.
Haven’t read anything as of late but during the covid lock down I had all the time in the world and for the first time ever read the Anne Frank story and damn did it give me goosebumps, such a good book and a very sad story.
"The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance, but also of hubris, paternalism, and misperception. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories, and deaths, told through the eyes of his predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out “war against cancer.” The book reads like a literary thriller with cancer as the protagonist."
I read this years ago and it's still one of the all time best books I've ever read.
