Walter Scott

The Most Novels You've Read By an Author

Dave Astor | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: J.K. Rowling, Barbara Kingsolver, John Steinbeck, Colette, Harper Lee, Ralph Ellison, L.M. Montgomery, Charles Dickens, Stephen King, Margaret Atwood, Herman Melville, Erich Maria Remarque, Emile Zola, Alexandre Dumas, Walter Scott, Willa Cather, Mark Twain, Cormac McCarthy, Jack London, Books News
Dave Astor

My list includes the authors' names, the number of novels I've read by each of them, and my three favorite novels (in rank order) by each of them. If you have different favorites by those authors, I'd like to hear about that.

Read Post

Less Famous Literary Masterpieces

Dave Astor | Posted 08.10.2011

Read More: J.K. Rowling, Barbara Kingsolver, John Steinbeck, Jane Austen, L.M. Montgomery, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Stephen King, Margaret Atwood, Canada, Herman Melville, Charlotte Bronte, Toni Morrison, Erich Maria Remarque, Emile Zola, Alexandre Dumas, Walter Scott, Harry Potter, Willa Cather, Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Books News
Dave Astor

There are plenty of cases where an author's masterpiece deserves the top billing it gets in the author's canon. But then there are the cases where a writer's most famous book is not the writer's best book.

Read Post

An Appreciation of Margaret Atwood

Dave Astor | Posted 08.02.2011

Read More: Women's Rights, Barbara Kingsolver, The Environment, Canada, Margaret Atwood, Walter Scott, Speculative Fiction, The Handmaid's Tale, Books News
Dave Astor

Atwood is socially conscious without being preachy. This is certainly the case in three dystopian novels that say a lot about things like women's rights and the despoiling of the environment but do that via the books' interesting characters and plots.

Read Post

The Story Of The Berkshire Hathaway Sokol Scandal

Business Week | Paul M. Barrett | Posted 06.28.2011

Read More: Berkshire Hathaway, Fraud, David Sokol, Insider Trading, Creighton University, Netjets, Warren Buffett, Walter Scott, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Sec, MidAmerican Holdings, Securities and Exchange Commission, Lubrizol, Business Ethics, TD Ameritrade, Business News

Berkshire's harsh report intensifies the attention the Sokol affair has focused on the succession question at Berkshire, a company whose achievements ...

Read Whole Story

Turkey's Borders and The Armenian Genocide Resolution

Harut Sassounian | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Turkey, Switzerland, House Foreign Affairs Committee, Turkish Parliament, Azerbaijan, European Union, Cong. Howard Berman, United States, Armenian Genocide, Karabagh, Artsakh, Armenia-Turkey Protocols, Reagan, Erdogan, Armenia, Russia, Israel, Hillary Clinton, Walter Scott, Constitutional Court of Armenia, World News
Harut Sassounian

In light of Turkey's devious designs to roll back the international recognition of the Armenian Genocide, it is imperative that the United States government reaffirm its acknowledgment by adopting the genocide resolution.

Read Post