WillyShake
- Age: 40
- Gender: Male
- Astrological Sign: Taurus
- Zodiac Year: Rooster
- Industry: Education
- Occupation: Professor
About Me
I've been called the "Naval Shade of Shakespeare" and have had the good fortune of making friends in many professions and places--hope to make many more here.
Interests
- Shakespeare
- Walker Percy
- JRR Tolkien
- US Navy Submarines
- Military History
- Churchill
- Politics
- Constitution & Founding Documents
- The Reformation
- Cooking/Recipes
- Wine
Favorite Movies
- Anything by the Coen Bros.
- It's a Wonderful Life
- So I Married an Ax Murderer
- Monty Python (any)
- The Great Escape
- Stalag 17
- Princess Bride
- Pink Panther series (any)
- The Third Man
- Touch of Evil
- High Noon
- The Outlaw Josey Wales
Favorite Music
- Classic Rock
- Dave Brubeck
- Miles Davis
- John Coltrane
- Mozart
- J. S. Bach
- Handel
- Tomaso Albinoni
- Baroque
- Giovanni Palestrina.
Favorite Books
- Fiction: Shakespeare (any play)
- Walker Percy (any novel)
- Iliad & Odyssey by Homer
- Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky
- Bleak House by Dickens
- War & Peace by Tolstoy
- Les Miserables by Hugo
- Moby Dick by Melville
- Persuasion by Austen
- Pride & Prejudice by Austen
- The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
- Lord of the Rings by Tolkien
- Non-Fiction: Churchill: A Life
- by Martin Gilbert
- Abraham Lincoln by Benjamin Thomas
- An Autumn of War by Victor Davis Hanson
- Between War & Peace by Victor Davis Hanson
- Flying Blind by Michael Smerconish
- Spec Ops by William McRaven
