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pipi_k

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Sun Jul 7, 2013, 02:43 PM

Jul 2013

small handful of Michener's books I haven't read.

My favorites are the larger historical novels...lots of characters, natural history, etc.

Like with "Hawaii", when he starts out telling the story of how the Hawaiian islands were formed.

And again, in "Centennial", how the land out west was formed, and the creatures that inhabited it, starting with the dinosaurs.

I never get tired of the stories, even though I've read them dozens of times.

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