One of the books I read recently was James Michener's "The Bridge at Andau". It's a "classic", but I had never read it. I'm glad I did--interesting history of the 1956 Hungarian revolt.

Over the years, I've read several Michener books: "The Source", "Hawaii", "Centennial" (until it got too laborious), "Caravans" and some I've forgotten, I'm sure. His semi-autobiography, "The Fires of Spring", which I read back in college (early 60's), had somewhat of an inspirational effect on me as I could identify with the character. I reread the book a couple of years ago, just to remind myself of how it affected me.

While Michener wasn't the greatest writer ever, he had his good points. I just enjoyed his geographical history of places all over the world--in novel form.