Well, I agree about The Da Vinci Code, but find the mention of Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror odd indeed. That book is among the most depressing I have ever read, but it is, after all, about the collapse of medieval society. Bonnie Wheeler should listen to Guillaume de Machaut's Notre Dame Mass, It gives a nice sense of that period's strangeness. I also agree with the fellow who picked Frederick Seidel's poetry.
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