EDGE OF ETERNITY / Ken Follett / Book Review / Brian Lee Durfee (spoiler free) Century Trilogy
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- Wherein our hero Durfee reviews the great historical novel Edge Of Eternity by Ken Follett. The Century Trilogy. #EdgeOfEternity #KenFollett #BookReview
I just finished winter of the world, this is truly the #1 television program in the history of the entire universe
TBR countdown: That's number 2.
Keep on reading!
Did you ever do your top ten vampire novels?
@@kellyshaw7271 I'm putting it together. Maybe next month or In a few weeks
@@B.LEE.DbrianleedurfeeREVIEWS excellent. I cannot wait for your top ten to maybe actually twenty vampire novels
Hi Brian , from Oxfordshire, England . Thanks for another piece of interesting work . Can I ask if you remember mentioning a book about The Templar's pls ? I've gone thru a load of your YT work trying to find which fiction you'd mentioned about them , and now my brain aches more than usual . TYVM .
Ah , a Cotton Malone novel I suspect ...
The Last Templar. Angels & Demons. The Templar Legacy
Much obliged , thank you sir . @@briandurfee3336
you are great!
Brian, would it be too much for me to ask you to read Peter Straub's Mr. X? lol, I want to buy it, but I don't know if it's worth it. give it a go!
I love your channel and your books😊
@@Esquisitãodoscomentarios maybe soon
Not sure your analysis of... Hitler... is correct, but I love your reviews nonetheless. And Edge of Eternity is the next book I will read!
Although Follett's books (especially his series in recent times) are a bit shallow and the same in structure.. I still really enjoy them
I'm going to be reading book, 1 soon! Never trust brian with edits!
Off topic is your eye alright after that accident at doctors office.Just give me a heart if ok
The versions i see at work look the way the bottom half of the books.
10 is far too generous. IMHO Follett did a face-plant on a pretty good series. For example, 1/3 of the book is about the Kenedy admin. Reagan is called a mass murderer (not by the bad guys). Thatcher (Follett's PM) isn't even mentioned.
Why do Americans continue to confuse communism with socialism. These are completely 2 different ideologies FFS!
Hitler DESPISED communism. The "commies" and the Jews. He saw communism as Germany's worst enemy. Hitler (and Naziism) was nationalist/fascist and totalitarian but "socialist" in name only. Don't know where Durfee is coming from here. For sure East Germany and Nazi Germany (had it lived) would have been grim, totalitarian states, so in a very general sense they would have likely been similar. Perhaps that's what he's driving at? If so then I agree that both would have been grim. But don't suggest Hitler was in any way in favor of Soviet style socialism! That's what he was fighting AGAINST happening to Germany. There was much support for communism in Germany when he came along and he campaigned against it as a mortal threat to the nation. That element, what was left of ii after Hitler, came to power in East Germany after WWII.
From Google labs:
" While the Nazi Party's name included "socialist" (National Socialist German Workers' Party), most historians agree that German Nazism was not truly socialist in practice, as it prioritized a strong nationalist agenda, racial hierarchy, and state control over the economy rather than the core socialist principles of class equality and worker ownership of the means of production; they used socialist rhetoric to appeal to working-class voters while ultimately maintaining a capitalist system with heavy government regulation and control over industry.
Key points to consider:
Name manipulation:
The "socialist" part of the Nazi Party name was primarily used to attract working-class support, not to implement true socialist policies.
State control, not worker control:
While the Nazi government heavily regulated the economy, they did not aim to distribute ownership of businesses among the working class.
Anti-Marxist ideology:
The Nazis fiercely opposed Marxist socialism and actively persecuted communists.
Racial hierarchy:
Unlike traditional socialist ideals of equality, Nazism emphasized a strict racial hierarchy, placing the "Aryan" race as superior.
because both Socialism and Communism are so far removed from Capitalism that they seem like bedfellows to Americans. And to top it off, Communism is basically a form of Socialism in every history book and google search i ever read FFS!
Any democracy that involves taxation and social programs is a form of socialism. They are very much not the same. Not to mention, every single instance of "communism" in recorded history is NOT communism. They have all been dictatorships or oligarchies. Communism in practice requires humans to be perfectly altruistic and unendingly compassionate and generous. Turns out, humans arent like that. Shocking, right?@briandurfee3336
Either way they are both shit