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Read a good book lately? Or even a really bad one?
I read a lot. I always have. I've been reading even more lately becuase of my long commute in and out of the city of San Francisco. I'd like to share with everyone the books I've enjoyed, and perhaps warn folks off what I thoguht were real dogs. Others are welcome to share too.
INFIDEL by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
I would highly recommend this book. It was well written and enjoyable. The one message I really took from this book is that secularism is foreign to Islam because Islam never experienced an "enlightenment" as Christianity has. So think Christianity before the enlightenment if you want to understand Islamic thought.
More from Google Books:
In this profoundly affecting memoir from the internationally renowned author of The Caged Virgin, Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells her astonishing life story, from her traditional Muslim childhood in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, and Kenya, to her intellectual awakening and activism in the Netherlands, and her current life under armed guard in the West.One of today's most admired and controversial political figures, Ayaan Hirsi Ali burst into international headlines following an Islamist's murder of her colleague, Theo van Gogh, with whom she made the movie Submission.Infidel is the eagerly awaited story of the coming of age of this elegant, distinguished -- and sometimes reviled -- political superstar and champion of free speech. With a gimlet eye and measured, often ironic, voice, Hirsi Ali recounts the evolution of her beliefs, her ironclad will, and her extraordinary resolve to fight injustice done in the name of religion. Raised in a strict Muslim family and extended clan, Hirsi Ali survived civil war, female mutilation, brutal beatings, adolescence as a devout believer during the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, and life in four troubled, unstable countries largely ruled by despots. In her early twenties, she escaped from a forced marriage and sought asylum in the Netherlands, where she earned a college degree in political science, tried to help her tragically depressed sister adjust to the West, and fought for the rights of Muslim immigrant women and the reform of Islam as a member of Parliament. Even though she is under constant threat -- demonized by reactionary Islamists and politicians, disowned by her father, and expelled from her family and clan -- she refuses to be silenced.Ultimately a celebration of triumph over adversity, Hirsi Ali's story tells how a bright little girl evolved out of dutiful obedience to become an outspoken, pioneering freedom fighter. As Western governments struggle to balance democratic ideals with religious pressures, no story could be timelier or more significant.
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Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande, MD PhD
I have had the distinct pleasure of meeting Dr. Gawande here in Boston. A close friend of mine works for him at Brigham and Women's, and he is an amazing surgeon with very little personal time. His case load is enormous and unenviable. That he had time to grab a beer with us and talk about our med school plans was amazing. Yes, I'm gushing.
Without getting into the contents of the book (doing so would probably ruin it), being a doctor, especially a surgeon, requires a level of tenacity most of us do not have. Not just because of the inherent complications of medical science, but the bureaucracy that has shrouded the profession, especially since the 1980's. Any person who thinks they might one day require surgery in the US should read this book.
On Infidel: I've yet to read it, but I have heard from numerous people that it is Islamophobic.
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I read The Road by Cormack McCarthy. Took some getting used to, but it was a quick read. Dark, and depressing, but it held my interest. Between reading that book, and watching I Am Legend, I am surprised I did not commit suicide.
Anyone not familiar with it, it is about a boy and his father who are trying to get to warmer climates after Armageddon. Does not tell what happened to bring them there, just focused on their journey.
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I just finished reading Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt. To my surprise, it's nonfiction, and I loved it. I knew there had been a movie made based on the book, starring Kevin Spacey among others, so I thought the book was going to be fiction as well. The author is a writer/editor who lives primarily in New York and took up part time residence in Savannah, GA, beginning in the early 80's. It's an intriguing look into old-South culture and filled with fascinating characters. As a native of South Carolina, I'm biased to believe Charleston is the better city, but if you live in the south at all you'll recognize what Berendt portrays as something everyone down here lives with. Social inequities and the tendency of older white families to consider themselves as aristocracy.
If, however, you live in the North (you damn Yankee) then you might be inclined to feel your belief in the southern stereotype to be reinforced, but don't be so smug. New York City has it's own "aristocracy" and the same social divisions as the south, only we have a much cooler accent.
Any way, I enjoyed the book, and I think you will too. If you don't, feel free to tell me "I told you so!" (even if you didn't really tell me).
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I've heard Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil is a very good book. It's on my list!
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Hello! i just read F is for Fugitive by Sue Grafton. if you're really into detective stories, especially female detectives, then you should check this out. i don't want to say anything more, its more fun to read it than hear it from me anyway. :D
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I've not read any Sue Grafton but she is very popular.
For me the brain candy of the moment are books by Kim Harrison. Her main character is a witch named Rachel Morgan. It is set in alternative universe with vampires, werewolves, elves, faries and pixies. Fun stuff!
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Emily: So think Christianity before the enlightenment if you want to understand Islamic thought.
A bit like much of 'middle America' and the Republican party then.
Having seen the film(review in movie thread,)I read the book The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, Turbulent Afghanistan in the 1970s, a moving story of two friends and a journey to redemption.
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I have read Kite Runner also, a truly excellent read!
I am currently reading The Academy: Tales of the Marketplace by Laura Antoniou
This is very high quality BDSM literature. Laura is a Domme from the leather tradition. Her Marketplace series is well written and the characters are real and complex. She brings the archetype to life: The so-serious protocol driven Masters and slaves, the transsexual sissy maid, the loud and brash Dommes.
And yet I have so far found this story about a secret society of trainers, owners and slaves to be depressing. I suppose that is because I really can't understand wanting to be "owned", and no longer have any aspirations of my own. It feels like a death.
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My all time favorite book is the Power of One. It tells the story of a young boy growing up in South Africa.
If you liked the Kite Runner, his other novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, is equally moving. This is the story of two women, first unable to get along and married to the same man. They form a very close bond and the older woman becomes a mother figure for the younger.
Another novel that I read recently and thought was really funny was My Horizontal Life: A collection of One night Stands, by Chelsea Handler. Very, very funny.
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It tells the story of a young boy growing up in South Africa.
I enjoyed Youth by J. M. Coetzee.
A semi-fictionalised autobiographical novel, recounting his life in 1960s London after leaving Cape Town.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth:_Scenes_from_Provincial_Life_II (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth:_Scenes_from_Provincial_Life_II)
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I just got done reading a novel by Stephanie Meyers, "Twilight"...Its an incredibly romantic story about a girl in highschool falling in love with a 17 year old vampire.
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I get into a book mood every now and then. I was asked by a friend what kind of book was my favorite, I said mostly historical fiction/nonfiction. Sometimes a story pops out in a discussion or another bibliography. Its almost like a thread here where one thing leads to another and before it is done Ive read everything in that directioin I can get my hands on. To me James Mitchner was like that. I have read most of his works, but have on my shelf two prized books. The first is called "The World is My Home". The second is "the Novel" Both are autobiographical and show his life as a lifelong scholar and writer. There are some great revelations in each, giving one a view of the world as seen by a dedicated author. In this same vein is "The Fifties" by David Halberstam. It takes us thru the myths and truths of the decade consevatives like to refer to as ameican Ideal. A must read for any sceptic.
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Kudos to the Twilight Series and the Chelsea Handler book. Twilight made made me yearn, there is no other word for it, for the relationship that these teenagers (one of whom is a vampire) have and fight for. It's sexy and really sweet, too.
I love Rubyfruit Jungle. It's about a girl (who turns into a woman throughout the course of the book) coming to terms with her sexuality and feelings for other women against opposing forces. She basically refuses to give in or back down for anyone. I heart it, it's one of my all time favorites.
Anybody else read Richard Bach? I was obsessed with him at first, then drifted back to reality a little bit.
I'm a big Dean Koontz fan, too. Or, was. Haven't read much of his newer stuff.
Another of my all time favorites if Of Mice and Men.
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Most recent books read:
The Rum Diary by Hunter S Thompson
Petropolis by Anya Ulinich
The Coldest Winter by David Hallberstam
Snuff Chuck Palahniuk
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I love Rubyfruit Jungle. It's about a girl (who turns into a woman throughout the course of the book) coming to terms with her sexuality and feelings for other women against opposing forces. She basically refuses to give in or back down for anyone. I heart it, it's one of my all time favorites.
Try Jeffrey Eugenides's 2002 novel, Middlesex.
A family saga about a brother and sister falling in love.
Set around the end of the Greco–Turkish War of 1919–1922 and in later in Detroit, Michigan. As for the middlesex part, think intersexuality ;-)
Plot summary:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlesex_(novel) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlesex_(novel))
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the last book i read was Down the highway,The life of Bob Dylan,if you like biographies it's good and if you like Dylan it's real good although i thought it kind of made him sound like a bit of a prick.
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i just read 21: Bringing Down the House.
The book was awsome.
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I would like to recomend The Time Traverlers Wife. It was a great cook too read or The Paino Tuner
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Does listening to books on CD in the car count? That's when I find the time for it.
I'm currently listening to Thirteen, titled Black Man in the UK by Richard Morgan. It's a near future Sci Fi (a century from now).
First I've come across by Morgan and I'll be looking for more. IMHO, very good characterizations and well thought out consequences to the premise (unregulated expansion of the genetic engineering industry, unmitigated rise of the religious right...).
An intense man-hunt for a genetic variant (variant 13) killer by the protagonist, also a variant 13 killer .
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I recently finished Bringing down the House the storry of the M.I.T. blackjack teams. i could barely put it down, great read highly suggested to all.
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Re-reading Guns, Germs and Steel right now. If you've never read this, trust me- pick it up.
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I would like to recomend The Time Traverlers Wife. It was a great cook too read or The Paino Tuner
Try "The Star Rover" by Jack London, published in 1915 (published in the United Kingdom as The Jacket) Was "made" into a 2005 film called "The Jacket"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_Rover (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_Rover)
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If you are making an impression by the last book I read, I will admit it was the last Harry Potter book.
However the book just before that was "the stranger" by albert camus. he Stranger is based on Camus's theory of the absurd.
It's quite the ride
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Eric claptons autobiography is pretty amazing. I would suggest reading it. Its a good eye opener to what true happiness is.
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Eric claptons autobiography is pretty amazing. I would suggest reading it. Its a good eye opener to what true happiness is.
Q: What do Eric Clapton and coffee from 7-11 have in common?
A: They both suck without cream.
*Courtesy of Gia's father.
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LOL, G...!!
Okay, books... Marshall McCluhan's Culture Is Our Business... media influences on society, circa 1969.
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I just re-read one of my favorite books, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers.
I read it in high school for the first time and loved it ever since. I usually read it at least once a year. It's one of those incredibly sad books that nevertheless leaves me with some hope at the end.
I would recommend it for anyone looking for a good read, though I would suggest you be in a good frame of mind when you start it.
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Just read "Don't Start the Revolution Without Me!" by former pro wrestler and Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura (author), Dick Russell (contributor).
If you want an easy read on
Castro, JFK, the Vietnam war, the Reform Party, Buchanan, 9/11, the CIA in your state, scripted news pundits and organized religion try the book.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Ventura (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Ventura)
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Re-reading Guns, Germs and Steel right now. If you've never read this, trust me- pick it up.
I read that last year. It certainly gives a whole new depth to Geo-Politics.
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Just got done reading the Zombie Survival Guide. I think I have a Zombie obsession. Hopefully I am not a necrophiliac. :emot_laughing:
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Wow, last post was over 2 years ago. Bunch of illiterate fucks around here, hahaha =) Ah well, fuck it, I've never shied away from reviving a good thread.
I just finished Cloud Atlas. I liked it a lot. I've re-read a couple chapters already, and I kind of want to read the whole thing again.
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I started reading Titus Groan, but it was kind of depressing, and I want something more fun right now. So I started reading this:
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I've read the other two books in the series, and they are far from amazing, but fun enough. They pretty much read like episodes of Buffy =) Oh, one thing I'll mention, in case anyone ever wants to read them: the first book is titled Disappearing Nightly. I picked up the second book, and thought that it was the first book. After reading it, I was pissed off to find out that it was not the first book, and that it had mentioned a lot of stuff from the first book. I guess the author switched publishing companies after the first book, and they refused to list the first Esther Diamond book in the list of her other books.
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I am currently reading 'The Lacuna' by Barbara Kingsolver. Very well written and full of historical references. I had never heard of the Bonus Army until I read this book. Diego Garcia and Frida Kahlo are at the very core of the book.
I have enjoyed Kingsolver's books before but this one is by far her best.
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Unsympathetic Magic was shitty. I wasn't expecting it to be amazing, but it wasn't even half as good as the first two books in the series.
Now reading The Sunbird by Wilbur Smith; pretty good so far. I've been meaning to read this for a long time. Apparently this book is where the band Opeth got their name (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opeth#Formation_.281990.E2.80.931993.29).
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recently finished Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlesex_(novel)
was spectacular, and very sexual at some parts. will definitely fulfill some of your kinky side :)
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The Sunbird was great; after finishing it a few days ago the book is still in my head. Wilbur Smith excelled at making me feel a connection to the characters in this book. I have a couple of other books by Wilbur Smith, and I am looking forward to reading them.
I just started Phantoms by Dean Koontz. I've never read a Dean Koontz book before, but I absolutely love the film that is based on this book; maybe one of Ben Affleck's best movies.
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Whether Kindle or paper, most of us read, to inspire, to pass the time or just to relax.
I like Sci-Fi, war stories and thrillers. Non fiction is mostly history and military history.
Right now I'm reading Jack Campbell's Lost fleet series, its a bit Battlestar Galactica
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/jack-campbell/
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I am currently reading The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson.
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Whether Kindle or paper, most of us read, to inspire, to pass the time or just to relax.
I like Sci-Fi, war stories and thrillers. Non fiction is mostly history and military history.
Right now I'm reading Jack Campbell's Lost fleet series, its a bit Battlestar Galactica
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/jack-campbell/
Just ordered:
" Demonic: How the Liberal Mob is Endangering America " by Ann Coulter
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Ummm..."How to trim fruit trees." :emot_laughing:
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I am currently reading The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson.
Never read the books but I did see his trilogy. Good movies. Hot woman. ;D
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I can't wait to finish this one and read the last one, I am aware of the movies but want to read the books first. :D
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Christine by Stephen King.
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Christine by Stephen King.
I didn't know they printed that in text speak, must be a loooong book of very short sentences.
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I can't wait to finish this one and read the last one, I am aware of the movies but want to read the books first. :D
Bad Idea Tiny, always see the movies first because once you have read the book the movies just don't stand up.
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Just ordered:
" Demonic: How the Liberal Mob is Endangering America " by Ann Coulter
Why joan? Surely you would agree with any conclusions of such a biased essay, its a bit like preaching to the converted.
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I can't wait to finish this one and read the last one, I am aware of the movies but want to read the books first. :D
Bad Idea Tiny, always see the movies first because ounce you have read the book the movies just don't stand up.
I agree, and I think it's especially true in this instance. After reading the trilogy, the movies pale in comparison. And I'm sure the American version will be even lamer.
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I can't wait to finish this one and read the last one, I am aware of the movies but want to read the books first. :D
Bad Idea Tiny, always see the movies first because ounce you have read the book the movies just don't stand up.
I agree, and I think it's especially true in this instance. After reading the trilogy, the movies pale in comparison. And I'm sure the American version will be even lamer.
That depends. I think True Blood and the Lord of the Rings trilogy are examples of the movie/television version being much better than the source material. The Sookie Stackhouse novels are okay, but the LotR just put me to sleep.
Currently reading - The Ghosts of Cannae: Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic
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Almost done with it. Can't say that I've liked it all that much so far. I'm not sure if I want to see the movie or not, I don't think I will; even though I have a feeling that this would be one of those rare cases when the movie would be better than the book.
I'm not sure what I want to read next, I've got a lot of books to read. My friend keeps bothering me to read George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series. Maybe I'll start digging in to that.
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Well...Are you going to get your husband to help with the trimming :emot_weird: ;D :emot_laughing:
That`s the idea, I do the reading, underline the important stuff, give a briefing and then husband can do the physical labour. ;D
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I just finished "Unbroken," by Laura Hillenbrand. The author writes a bit too melodramatically for my tastes, but it's one of the most amazing survival stories I've ever read, and it offers another window into a little-discussed chapter of World War II.
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OH shit, my heart just started hurting!! LOTR movies were great if you watch the extended movies, but better then the books...I read them at least twice each. Loved them. The Hobbit I had a little harder time reading but I tried to read that when I was a little to young.
Parts of LotR are well written, but there are a lot of parts that just draaaaaaaaag. About the fifth time I ran into a song/poem that ran for multiple pages, I just wanted to smack Tolkien and tell him to get on with the damn story. And don't even get me started on Tom Bombadil.
Don't get me wrong. The idea, the world, of LotR is fantastic. The execution in the books...not my cup of tea.
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Just trimming up yours or does your husband get a trim also? Fruit and berries :o
Of course, I perfer the grass be gone. (yes, had to go there ;D )
Actually, it are cherry trees. :emot_laughing:
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Just started reading "Bay Island" by Matthew Kray. Excellent horror story that takes place on an isolated island off the coast of Maine. Scarrrrrrryyyyy! Best thing is that its only $2.99 on Kindle.
Love,
Foxi
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Just started Born Under Mars by John Brunner. A friend insisted I give the sci-fi books of John Brunner a try. And she was persuasive enough. =)
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Just started reading "Bay Island" by Matthew Kray. Excellent horror story that takes place on an isolated island off the coast of Maine. Scarrrrrrryyyyy! Best thing is that its only $2.99 on Kindle.
Love,
Foxi
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Emily/Lois mentioned something about that one a long time ago, and I've wanted to read it ever since. I haven't been able to find a paperback copy at a good price on Amazon yet.
Just checked, and a used copy would be 19.11 =(
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rubicon by tom holland.
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I absolutely love everything sci-fi and while I don't like free love, I have been getting into the works of Robert A. Heinlein. Read Stranger in A Strange Land, Time Enough For Love and To Sail Beyond The Sunset recently but about to rewind a bit and start The Door Into Summer soon.
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American indian myths and mysteries by
Vincent Gaddis
A remarkable book that explores the roots of the first americans and debunks modern archaeology's theories of the bering strait falsehood. Also looks at evidence of pre-columbian contact with north and south america. Highly recommended for amateur history buffs
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An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, by Rick Atkinson. There is a lot about the political underpinnings of the north African campaign which lead into the political relationships after the war.
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OH shit, my heart just started hurting!! LOTR movies were great if you watch the extended movies, but better then the books...I read them at least twice each. Loved them. The Hobbit I had a little harder time reading but I tried to read that when I was a little to young.
Parts of LotR are well written, but there are a lot of parts that just draaaaaaaaag. About the fifth time I ran into a song/poem that ran for multiple pages, I just wanted to smack Tolkien and tell him to get on with the damn story. And don't even get me started on Tom Bombadil.
Don't get me wrong. The idea, the world, of LotR is fantastic. The execution in the books...not my cup of tea.
I used to belong to a fantasy book group of sorts and it got so much that we never talked about LOTR because i never liked it much and it caused way too many violent arguments ;D.
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I keep going back to Glen Cook's fantasy series about Garret, P. I. The world works and you can relate to the stories.
It's written without the frou-frou of so many fantasy. Stories. The characters are real and believable, whether they are human, dark elf, wizard, or any of the other non-human species. They are raising kids, stuggling to get work to put food on the table.
Oh, and Garret loves his beer.
The only flaw in garret's character is that he was a Marine. :D ok you marines can start complaining bitterly now.
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I keep going back to Glen Cook's fantasy series about Garret, P. I. The world works and you can relate to the stories.
It's written without the frou-frou of so many fantasy. Stories. The characters are real and believable, whether they are human, dark elf, wizard, or any of the other non-human species. They are raising kids, stuggling to get work to put food on the table.
Oh, and Garret loves his beer.
The only flaw in garret's character is that he was a Marine. :D ok you marines can start complaining bitterly now.
That frou-frou as you say is one of the reasons i never have loved really any fantasy book i have read. Enjoyed plenty of them, but that unrealistic portrait of human nature generally make all the books lacking something. Terry goodkinds series advances into a more dark and mature theme as the series goes on i feel, but the first 3 books are atypical fantasy.
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Currently i'm waiting for the next installment of the Dresden Files, The Hallows, and the Heroes of Olympus series. In the mean time I'm reading The Lost Symbol By Dan Brown.
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Recently finished "The Art of Racing in the Rain". wonderful story, well written. All through it I communed w/ my English Black Lab "Buddy" - who was a brilliant, wonderful addition to our family for years. Sadly, had to be put down and released to the "great squirrel chase" in the sky.
currently reading "How the Irish Saved Civilization". Pretty amazing story, actually.
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Currently i'm waiting for the next installment of the Dresden Files
I can't wait to get my hands on Ghost Story. Jim Butcher is by far the best urban fantasy writer that I've ever seen.
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Naked Empire by Terry Goodkind.
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Unsympathetic Magic was shitty. I wasn't expecting it to be amazing, but it wasn't even half as good as the first two books in the series.
Now reading The Sunbird by Wilbur Smith; pretty good so far. I've been meaning to read this for a long time. Apparently this book is where the band Opeth got their name (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opeth#Formation_.281990.E2.80.931993.29).
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Love Wilbur Smith!!
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Just finished reading John Adams by David McCullough. Very good book; McCullough has a real talent for writing biography, though to be honest he was a bit too in love with his subject. Still, I recommend it to anyone who is interested in biography and American history. :)
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I, Maya Plisetskaya
http://www.amazon.com/I-Maya-Plisetskaya/dp/0300088574 (http://www.amazon.com/I-Maya-Plisetskaya/dp/0300088574)
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I read that book a long time ago and loved it. Of course, I love all of Heinlein's books.
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The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood.....am not really giving this book justice because what I really want to read is The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest and based on Grm's and MissB's advice have not until I have seen the movies, lol. That book tempts me to no end I won't lie, to see it on my nightstand and just want to read only the first chapter, then another, then another...........
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Some of Your Blood by Theodore Sturgeon.
Only my second vampire book (Dracula was 1st) and first Sturgeon. I have read Saucer of Loneliness online and heard several on different podcasts. Most on a podcast by scifi writer, Spider Robson, but this is my first physical book by him. From what I have heard, Sturgeon's works are just beyond amazing. Definitely will have to get more by him.
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Right now I'm reading Steven Erikson's "The Crippled God". Great series if anyone is into fantasy. After that I have something by L.E. Modesitt sitting on my nightstand waiting to be read.
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Finally got around to starting the Song of Fire and Ice series.
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Just started reading World War Z.
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Currently re-reading Caleb Carr's "The Angel of Darkness"
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Currently re-reading Caleb Carr's "The Angel of Darkness"
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I read both "The Alienist" and "The Angel of Darkness" when they first came out, and I recently re-read them. They're both enthralling books!
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Just finished Ilium by Dan Simmons. A sci-fi page turner, with robots who love Shakespeare and Proust, Homeric warriors in all their beauty and complexity, and all that interlocked with a post modern world, where humans have almost no culture. Never while reading the book did I feel reading some dumbed down book.
Currently reading: The Last Crusaders: East, West and the Battle for the Centre of the World by Barnaby Rogerson
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One for the boys:
I'm working my way through this series:http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/s/julian-stockwin/kydd.htm
Reading these you can almost smell the salt water, Quarterdeck has some well researched
fiction on the birth of the United States navy.
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Currently re-reading Caleb Carr's "The Angel of Darkness"
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I read both "The Alienist" and "The Angel of Darkness" when they first came out, and I recently re-read them. They're both enthralling books!
I agree wholeheartedly! Hopefully Carr gets around to picking up the series again someday.
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Just finished 3 of Heinlein's books: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Stranger in a Strange Land, and Starship Troopers. Now I'm reading the second Cardcaptors Sakura omnibus.
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I'm slowly working my way through Gravity's Rainbow by Pynchon.
I can't decide if I like it or not. He's got a style that I'm really not used to.
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Currently, I am reading a book by Nelson Demille called "The Gold Coast"
Demille is the same author who wrote the story and screen play for "The General's Daughter" Starring John Travolta.
I've read many of Demille's works and I find them very enjoyable.
Janus
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GB, If your age is accurate, then you were not even born when I read Dune. As a matter of fact, I think you were not born when the movie came out.....You'll find Dune to be a very good read. Enjoy it.....
Janus
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Dune the movie may not have reached classic standards. Sting didn't do a bad job with his character either. The movie was entertaining with top of the line special effects for the era. The book is without question better. Which seems to be the case 99% of the time . Enjoy...
Janus
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I don't know how it is with you, but I always have a book by my bed, actually they are everywhere, one tucked into the door pocket of my car door, my backpack and of course the premier place to read, the loo. Just like writing we all have our own reading styles, Suzy, my wife, will read book after book, crime and the morgue are her sort of thing, once she has read a book, that's it, she will almost never read it again. Whereas I keep my favourite books on the bookcase and will go back to them many times over the years.
So what is by your bedside right now, tell us if its good or not so good, just share it with us, because a book shared leaves us all richer.
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The books I've been chipping away at for months are a series titled "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" by Edward Gibbons. It makes for interesting but exhausting reading.
For lighter reading, I am currently working on a visual novel titled "True Remembrance" by Shiba Satomi (and localized in English by Seung Park and Edward Keyes) which is a free, completely legal download from http://trueremembrance.insani.org/get.html (http://trueremembrance.insani.org/get.html)
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I'm always reading something, in the bathroom, too, like the boss [that was a habit a picked up from my father, he'd grab the paper and spend an hour in there], lol I'm reading a vampire novel now, one i've read probably four times already. I love to re-read all my books.
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For anyone even remotely curious about visual novels, I've just been completely blown away by the ending of "True Remembrance" (see my previous post for a link to a free, legal copy). I'll have to read through it again once I calm down. The ending really did something to me and I just had to say something about it!
It amazes me how I've gone on this long without picking up such an incredible piece of literature! I rarely want to re-read something once I've finished with it, but it seems to me that there is so much more I can get out of this story now that I know all of the facts.
Mood after reading: Excited, but somber.
P.S. It bears mentioning that this is not an adult novel, and that the story is romantic in nature. There are also no decisions involved, thus it is actually a "kinetic novel" for those savvy with the terminology. It reads very much like a book, but is aided with appropriate music and visuals.
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You can count visual novels on here now?
I haven't posted in a long time but after a few more Heinlein novels (a total of 8 now!) I'm currently reading For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway. Hell, I decided to start making wishlists and even made a GoodReads account to keep track of everything and get recommendations.
But if we can count visual novels now too, I have also been reading/playing (slowly) Katawa Shoujo. A visual novel where you as the main character have a heart attack at the ripe ol' age of 17 and sent to a special school filled with children with disabilities. I like it. I've only played through three girls, started a fourth and have a strong preference of the "best." Can't wait to finish it.
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I can't see why anything of literary value should be discounted, so yes, I would encourage people to discuss alternative forms of literature as well. It would also be nice to remove some of the stigma attached to visual novels because of publishers like Zyx who create horrible content and manage to sell it with sex.
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Re-reading The Gilded Chamber by Rebecca Khon.
Its an historical fiction novel of the tale of Esther from the bible told from her perspective~
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Tom Clancy - Dead or Alive
David McCullough - The Great Bridge
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Rereading A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. Great book.
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I have gotten a book by Jane Middelton-Moz called Shame & Guilt: Masters of Disguise. It deals with overcoming childhood issues. It's long past time for me to get all this sorted out, am hoping this will help or at least point me in the right direction before I just go completely bonkers.
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Currently I'm reading a Tom Clancy book called "Locked On".
It has Jack Ryans son as a main character and I'm finding it quite a good read..
Go Clancy....I read his first ten novels and then lost interest when I picked up his "Op-Center" series. Didn't do anything for me.
When I finish this book I'm going to try to read a Baldacci book called "The Winner".
It started real slow and then I lost interest. A good friend of mine told me to push through the first few chapters because it gets REALLY good...So I'll hit that next...
Janus
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I have about four series on the go. I love it when the story continues on. Right now I'm into the Pay-Changeling series by Nalini Singh (paranormal romance)- good mystery and always sexy with fantasy worthy characters. Reading is my escape from mommy time and responsibility so I tend to keep it easy and fun these days. I used to be a big Dean Koontz fan. My other faves are the dark hunter series by Sherrilyn Kenyon and the blackdagger brotherhood series by J. R. Ward. Oh! And the Sookie Stackhouse series
- the books that True Blood is very loosely based on.
Next I'm going to try out the hunger games trilogy and the Game of Thrones series - I love the show and well, the books are always better ;)
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YAY Kinky! I'm almost done with Game of Thrones... moving on to A Clash of Kings this weekend!
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I'm reading the Cal and Niko series by Robin Thurman right now. It's OK, but there's no blatant sex in it, so they don't count as a paranormal romance.
So far, cruising the paranormal romance aisle at the local bookstores has now gotten me stalked TWICE. Once last year, and again a few weeks ago. Dunno if it's me, or the women are just insatiably curious about any guy reading in THAT aisle. :emot_kiss:
Both of my stalkers have been early to late 30s.
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Lee Child....The Affair
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I'm reading A Clash of Kings too! I also have Steven Erikson's Tale of the Malazan Book of the Fallen on the go, into book 5 'Bonehunters'. I have a huge backlog of books to read..Jim Butcher's Dresden Files, The Hunger Games Trilogy, the last Eragon book, J.R. Ward's Black Dagger series, Cassandra Clare's Immortal Insturments..the list goes on!
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What I'm *not* reading right now: JR Ward's 'Black Dagger Brotherhood' series.
I looked at one of the books last week on the recommendation of a friend, and the preface had 5 or 6 pages worth of 'dictionary' and proper nouns... worthless shite like:
Lheader prop. n. the head of the vampire clan
trayhner n. word used between warriors of equal status
If you have to go out of your way to thoroughly FUCK UP simple reading of the story with cutsie made-up words, then it goes right back on the shelf at the bookstore.
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Yearn - by Tobsha Learner.
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Just finished reading A Dance with Dragons: After the Feast, I've loved the whole series and am also loving the TV series. Started reading The Wages of Destruction, an economic history of Nazi Germany which has some interesting theses
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I'm rereading Atlas Shrugged. really don't have the time. I try to get a few pages in every night. if you have not read it, I recommend it. the person who told me about it said I was very much like the main character, strong, but submissive. the only real difference is i don't find myself jumping at the next guy because he wields more power. I jump at them cause they are hot
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The Judgement of Paris - a history of the beginnings of the Impresionist Art Movement.
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This book is AMAZING! What a gripping read... her research is impeccable, and her humor shines through again and again! I sometimes forget that Rachel is a Rhode Scholar... Dr. Maddow came out at age 17 when a Stanford freshman. She was the first openly gay American to be awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, and the first openly gay journalist to anchor a major U.S. news program.
A 1989 graduate of Castro Valley High School where she was a three-sport athlete, Rachel Maddow earned a B.A. in Public Policy from nearby Stanford University, where she won the John Gardner Fellowship for public service.
After a year in San Francisco working for the AIDS Legal Referral Panel and with ACT-UP, an AIDS non-profit, Rachel Maddow was awarded a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship to study political science at Oxford University. She completed an Oxford doctorate in politics in 2001 after several delays, including a stint at the AIDS Treatment Project in London and a 1999 move to Massachusetts.
I got it last night, and I am already five chapters in... I can't wait to pick it up again! I had no idea about post Viet Nam military policy or the tactics Regan ascended in his bid for the Presidency. WOW! This book is packed with jaw dropping information!
Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power
by Rachel Maddow
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I'm sure the Conservatives here at KB will slam it as "Liberal lies and propaganda"... so have at it!
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Two, King's 11/22/63 on my Nook, and the audiobook of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, in the car. I'm enjoying both.
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I'm rereading Atlas Shrugged. really don't have the time. I try to get a few pages in every night. if you have not read it, I recommend it. the person who told me about it said I was very much like the main character, strong, but submissive. the only real difference is i don't find myself jumping at the next guy because he wields more power. I jump at them cause they are hot
not a book to be set aside lightly
it should be thrown away, and with great force
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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
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Just finished "Spell Bound" by Kelley Armstrong (the latest part of her OTHERWORLD series).
I was... underwhelmed. Her previous books have been great thus far, and this one was disappointing. The whole last half of the book just DRAGGED, and it never really reached a conclusion: it left the whole fucking story line wide open until the NEXT damned novel. It's one of the worst anti-climactic endings I've read in many years.
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Closed the 7th of 8 books in Jennifer Rardin's 'Jaz Parks' series. It's equally as fun a read as the others have been. I went looking for the last one, and found that Jennifer died in September 2010, shortly after finishing the last book and two months before the 7th one was released. Damn. I guess I won't be waiting breathlessly for her NEXT series. :'(
There's a lot of guessing (as no official cause of death is reported), although the medical examiner listed it as 'apparent suicide' that someone managed to sneak out. She's survived by her husband and two (grown?) children. Jennifer was married in '86, and died at 45 years.
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Just reading John Ralston Saul's great critique of society and power, Voltaire's Bastards.
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I finished reading Fyodor Dostoyevsky, I own everything he ever wrote, at least books... I am preparing for college, I only have one more year of high school (yeah still in hs, although it's quite different than other countries)
Right now relaxing with Stephen King - Dreamcatcher
I don't know the exact translation of the alien worms name, but something like but-weasel.... I must get his older work like Carrie, movie was awesome
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I finished reading Fyodor Dostoyevsky, I own everything he ever wrote, at least books... I am preparing for college, I only have one more year of high school (yeah still in hs, although it's quite different than other countries)
Right now relaxing with Stephen King - Dreamcatcher
I don't know the exact translation of the alien worms name, but something like but-weasel.... I must get his older work like Carrie, movie was awesome
Really liked Dostoyevsky's "Poor People" sometimes called "Poor Folk" . It inspired the book "84 Charring Cross Road"
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That one is good, but my favorites are 'Crime and Punishment' and 'The Idiot'
I usually don't read these 'serious' books, but for someone who aspires to be a writer it's a must read. Although I am probably going to live in Japan, as that's my only ticket to good life, because here people kill themselves 'cause they don't have money (poor country)...
Most people would do what character (forgot the name, it was the first of his books I read years ago) in 'Crime and Punishment' did and wouldn't feel guilty.
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Half-way though 'Hit List' by Laurell K. Hamilton, and it's a refreshing change back to the OLD Anita Blake. I got kinda disgusted when she spent a whole book in bed, screwing her brains out with her 'succubus superpower'. This one is more like the earlier books, where they're actually DOING something for a change. At the half point, she still hasn't fucked anyone yet. That'll change REAL soon, but it's an interesting break from the recent books.
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Still King's 11/22/63 on my Nook, and now Jim Butcher's Storm Warning (Dresden Files #1) in the car (audio book).
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Before I Go To Sleep, a first time novel by S J Watson... not a sex story by any means but one that will have you thinking for a long time. It was given to me as a present and is one of those books that make you want to read the next page... then the next... and the next...
vinney
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Just finishing up book 10 of Steven Erikson's series "The Malazan Book of the Fallen". Very good if you like epic fantasy. Definitely not a book you can just read casually. If you don't pay attention you'll miss all the little details.
After this I'm going to try and read the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. The movie wasn't too bad but I've had couple of friends say the books are decent so I'll check it out.
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The Sexual Teaching of The White Tigress. An absolutely fascinating read.
Taoist researcher and lecturer Hsi Lai (which means "Westerner" and is quite possibly a pseudonym) claims to summarize the contents of a 1748 manual for "White Tigresses," an ancient, secret Taoist-Tantra tradition of women who undertake disciplined sexual and spiritual practices to retain youth and beauty, realize feminine potential, and become "immortal" able to retain consciousness after death. In this tradition, a woman rejuvenates herself physically and spiritually by absorbing energies and essences from sexual stimulation and from fellatio of many men. The exercises, practices, and quotations from the manual are fascinating, if likely to appeal to relatively few. Hsi Lai reports that the manual also includes the full texts of several lost Taoist sex manuals (documented in other Chinese sexology works).
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Before I Go To Sleep, a first time novel by S J Watson... not a sex story by any means but one that will have you thinking for a long time. It was given to me as a present and is one of those books that make you want to read the next page... then the next... and the next...
vinney
Great book with a few great twists and turns. Second book with with amnesia as a theme that I have read in the last few weeks. The Memory Game, an early Nicci French was another.
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I am reading several books right now. The main book is a Star Wars one though.
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Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde - interesting but weird.
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Fifty shades darker. Fifty shades if gray was very stimulating!
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Reading 1984 by George Orwell
Yeah, I'm politically left wing....I'd be pretty lost living in America where you're faced with either right wing or right of centre :D
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Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
By Mark Pendergrast
http://books.google.co.in/books/about/Uncommon_Grounds.html?id=njNk0ojWXH8C (http://books.google.co.in/books/about/Uncommon_Grounds.html?id=njNk0ojWXH8C)
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"The Winner" By David Baldacci.
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Right Now: James Joyce- Ulysses.
Favorite author would either be Oscar Wilde, or Kurt Vonnegut.
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I read a lot ,
I just finished Ken follet winter of the world
I try to do the classics got on a Steinbeck kick.
I also like to find the books I read as a kid
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got this book as a Christmas present... it has a very funny story mixed with how to cook chicken...
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I've read it before, but it was about seven years ago. I like to re-read good books, it's kind of a measure of how much I have changed in the time between readings. The books are always different, even though every word is exactly the same as it was the first time around.
Dan Simmons' science fiction offerings are amazing. I couldn't even begin to describe this one.
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Lol, the chicken likes bondage... too bad it's a sub, that's supposed to be ME tied up in Latina's books... lol.
As always, get off, and often.
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Right now I'm reading "Door Wide Open", a collection of letters between Jack Kerouac & Joyce Johnson. With todays technology i feel the art of letter writing is almost all but disappeared and to me that's a loss.
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The Elephant Whisperer, by Lawrence Anthony. It's the true story of Lawrence's interaction with a herd of wild elephant on a reserve in Zululand, South Africa. A good read if you're a tree-hugger. Mind you, it's a good read anyway ;D
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Just finished Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried. Cried my eyes out. I cried like a kid who lost a puppy, I cried like I have rarely cried before. And that was by page 5. Anyone who could read that and not cry is probably planning the next Sandy Hook Massacre.
A perfect 10. Flat-out masterful, I hope to teach it someday.
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Just finished Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried. Cried my eyes out. I cried like a kid who lost a puppy, I cried like I have rarely cried before. And that was by page 5. Anyone who could read that and not cry is probably planning the next Sandy Hook Massacre.
A perfect 10. Flat-out masterful, I hope to teach it someday.
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Will find the book and read it... it always good to have a good cry...
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Good call, Latina! I hope you will love it like I did. It is a collection of short stories, not all of which are so sad, but all very good. He's a new favorite.
I'm going to read the chicken book someday. Chicken is sub like me, hehehe.
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Good call, Latina! I hope you will love it like I did. It is a collection of short stories, not all of which are so sad, but all very good. He's a new favorite.
I'm going to read the chicken book someday. Chicken is sub like me, hehehe.
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And like me... it's a cook book... but it has a story written from the chicken's point of view... I laugh so hard... have you read fifty shades of grey?
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Not yet, but it is on my short list. Bout to start school, work, and writing a lot, but I hope to read it soon.
I'm mostly a big nerd, I read the big classics. I am reading Fyoodor Dostoevsky's The Idiot right now before I get back to school. It's good, but slow.
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believe it or not i am reading an old James Herbert novel 'The Rats' my mum read it when it first came out in the 70's and it freaked her out and the sequels and it called a lot of trouble because Herbert had got quotable snippets from people involved in pest extermination...freaky if a bit dated
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I've been reading James Ellroy's American Tabloid. He's the author of L.A. Confidential, which was made into one of the best crime drama movies of all time.
American Tabloid is really cool, fast-paced, and based on real life. If you like crime drama, I can recommend it. 9/10.
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Damn tried to read the cloud Atlas, and could not get into it... now I tried to watch the movie and I'm in a blank... gotta keep trying the book ...
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Now I'm reading some of Emily Dickinson's poetry. Here's a favorite:
The brain is wider than the sky,
For, put them side by side,
The one the other will include
With ease, and you beside.
The brain is deeper than the sea,
For, hold them, blue to blue,
The one the other will absorb,
As sponges, buckets do.
The brain is just the weight of God,
For, lift them, pound for pound,
And they will differ, if they do,
As syllable from sound.
Love her poetry, it seems so simple at first, and then the depth becomes apparent.
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Currently reading a Patterson Book called "Private"
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Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
He died yesterday at age 81. His 1958 novel is a beautiful example of the cultural reaction to colonial attitudes in Africa. I had the good fortune to hear him speak once, and he was unbelievable.
His was a beautiful voice, and he will be sorely missed.
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Right Now: James Joyce- Ulysses.
Favorite author would either be Oscar Wilde, or Kurt Vonnegut.
... I am reading Fyoodor Dostoevsky's The Idiot right now before I get back to school. It's good, but slow.
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If you have a taste for Joyce, Vonnegut and Dostoevsky, it makes me wonder what you think of Vladimir Nabokov? I found Joyce incomprehensible and tiresome, actually, to be perfectly honest, but that may have been a reflection of my own state of mind at the times I tried. Vonnegut I admire and adore, and count as an inspiration. Can't say I've ever gotten around to any Dostoevsky, again being perfectly honest. Wilde is on a different continent, to my mind; not necessarily inferior, but not terribly interesting to me, either.
Nabokov is my all-time favorite by far, despite the dense (sometimes even tedious) but almost always maddeningly obscure wordplay. He strikes me as being similar to Joyce, but with a pervasive sense of humor. Playful and irreverent, making fun of everyone, not least himself, while never letting the reader be sure whether or not he's making fun of him, too, or letting him in on a big secret.
I haven't actually read nearly as much Nabokov as I'd like, because it's so incredibly exhausting to read him carefully. I can only do relatively brief stints without taking a break, and then it's so easy to lose track of where everything was if you set him down for any length of time.
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PS I love you... I have laughed and cried with Holly...
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"Night of the Hawk" by Dale Brown
I've read it a couple of times.
Next week I'm thinking of getting the series "Game of Thrones" Has anyone read it?
I've heard it is most excellent.
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Sparring With Charlie - Motorbiking down the Ho Chi Minh Trail by Christopher Hunt.
His politics are crap and he seems unbelievably naive for a 31 year old (at the time of writing in 1995) but his descriptions of places and his willingness to by-pass the control system of the government at the time makes the book worth a read.
He reminds me much of Paul Theroux in that he spends too much time criticising local politics and claiming US politics to be a beacon in the political dark - they both need to look more closely at their own country's less than wonderful system beofre criticisimg others.
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If you have a taste for Joyce, Vonnegut and Dostoevsky, it makes me wonder what you think of Vladimir Nabokov?
Never tried him, but I'll put him on the ol' list. I have spring break, so besides surfing (I just lost enough weight to squeeze my fat ass into my wetsuit), I'm going to be doing a bunch of reading. If I didn't have Damon Runyon's Guys and Dolls to read, I'd hit up the used book store and check him out. As is, I'll probably have to wait until school lets out. Thanks for the recommendation, man, I appreciate it.
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If you have a taste for Joyce, Vonnegut and Dostoevsky, it makes me wonder what you think of Vladimir Nabokov?
Never tried him, but I'll put him on the ol' list. I have spring break, so besides surfing (I just lost enough weight to squeeze my fat ass into my wetsuit), I'm going to be doing a bunch of reading. If I didn't have Damon Runyon's Guys and Dolls to read, I'd hit up the used book store and check him out. As is, I'll probably have to wait until school lets out. Thanks for the recommendation, man, I appreciate it.
My pleasure. I would suggest not starting with Lolita, as that book has too much cultural baggage and erotic expectation that it would likely be impossible to divorce those distractions from the work itself, making it hard to get a fair impression of the writer and his style, as well as an unfiltered experience of the narrative. Many have mentioned Pale Fire as his best work, but it is also apparently rather experimental, so it may not be best to get an idea of his style (I haven't gotten to that one yet). Others suggest Pnin, Bend Sinister, and Ada as among both his best and most accessible. Ada might be a good choice since it includes themes similar to Lolita, and then some (incest, too), if that interests you, and since its general story line is not universally known as is Lolita's, it might be easier to allow the story to unfold as the author intends. The detailed descriptions of pubescent beauty and desire in Ada make it pretty clear (along with occasional flashes such as the unmistakably erotic undertones of the prepubescent Emmie in Invitation to a Beheading) that Lolita was not a mere intellectual exercise on Nabokov's part, he was describing feelings and desires with which he was quite familiar. But there is so very, very much more to Nabokov than that, it's a shame that all most people know of him is Lolita, which itself is generally misjudged. It is much more comic tragedy than it is pornography. I have also enjoyed Nabokov's nonfiction writing. His autobiogrophy Speak, Memory is brilliant, and I devoured his Lectures on Russian Literature, despite knowing very little about the subject, in awe of his wit and humor. Even the introductions to his books I find more interesting than the actual books by some authors. By all means, read Lolita, but consider my advice to try something else by the author first. I would have enjoyed Lolita so much more if I had been familiar with and had gained an appreciation for Nabokov's style, and realized clearly going in that it wasn't going to be merely a modern Lady Chatterly.
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I am reading Nic Kelman's "Girls" right now.
I can't say enough about it. It is sexy, it is poignant, it really *gets* what it means to be an aging pervert.
If you've done it all, seen it all, and realize finally that you gave up almost as much as you received by your exploits, this book will really speak to you.
If you are a woman, who can't understand a man's mind... this book will give you insight.
I came out ten years ago, and was selected by the San Francisco Chronicle as one of that year's "Ten Best."
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JK, I know Toe just likes to fuck gay vacuum cleaners.
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I came out ten years ago, and was selected by the San Francisco Chronicle as one of that year's "Ten Best."
This deserves the Funniest Typo Of The Year Award. LOL
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Freudian typo.
JK, Toe is the man. Woo for being a good sport, buddy.
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Neal Stephenson : Cryptonomicon
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Does it count if it is one you are writing/editing?
If not, the Myth series by Robert Asprin
Rising Sun by Michael Chriton
The Street Lawyer by John Grishom
and the Dragon Riders of Pern series by Anne McCaffey
Yes, my tastes are eclectic though I tend to spend more time writing than reading lately and only 1 of the 4 I can publish anywhere outside of here. lol
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"2312" by Kim Stanley Robinson
"How the Hippies Saved Physics" by David Kaiser
"The Log from the Sea of Cortez" by John Steinbeck
The last book because I will be sailing a yacht from the port of La Paz, Mexico in two weeks. The clothing optional trip with a few of my co-conspirators will last four weeks on the Sea of Cortez.
Tropic of Cancer and all that. :emot_hard:
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Simone De Beauvoir a biography by Dierdre Bair
How the bourgeoise live and prosper.
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I'm reading Christine Feehan dark series
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A game of thrones, a dance with dragons
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It is good, better than the last one, I'm thinking you'll like it.
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Just finished The Desert Spear, part of the Demon Cycle by Peter V. Brett
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Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata. It won a Newberry medal for children's literature, which it completely deserved.
I cried my eyes out, I cried like a little kid with a lost puppy, I cried so hard my cheeks ache. If you can read this and not cry, seek help. I had to make a special trip out to see my best friend's daughter (we are very close) just to hug her. She seemed surprised, but I gave her the book. I'm expecting her to call me in tears for a hug very soon...
10/10. Utterly flawless- perfect for humans of any age, culture, ethnicity, or religion.
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I am currently reading Fallen by Lauren Kate. Very interesting book
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Believe it or not, I just finished "Scorpion Reef" by an author named Charles Williams. You might know him for "Dead Calm" which was made into a movie with Nicole Kidman. What makes the book interesting is it was written in 1959 and presents a fascinating insight into life and perspectives back then. It's also a great thriller.
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Ever since I got my second hand Kindle, something I didn't really want, I have downloaded 49 books. I try to limit myself to the special offers and the free or lower priced ones.
I must say I have discovered quite a few gems, even among the free books, one was called The Hundred Year Old Man Who Stepped Out Of The Window And Disappeared, which is now on the book stands a a best seller and paperback, its a whimsical tale which keeps you smiling throughout.
The one thing about Amazon is it remembers every book you even browsed, never mind buy and they bombard you with recommendations. I do quite like an end of the world theme, got hooked in my teens having read John Wyndham's Day Of The Triffids (published in 1951.) If you haven't read it 12 Weeks Later stole the beginning (zombies replaced walking carnivorous plants.)
Anyway I have been surprised how many novels there are around the theme of the end of the world and my latest is An Empty Land of Plenty.
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Pirates of Barbary - Adrian Tinniswood
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The Divine Comedies - Dante Alighieri
My second time through, and a different translation. Still a good read, but I still wish I could go through it with a class instead of all by myself.
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The Divine Comedies - Dante Alighieri
My second time through, and a different translation. Still a good read, but I still wish I could go through it with a class instead of all by myself.
Hey, me too! What a weird coincidence!
This was the 7th or 8th time I've read Inferno, and I'm almost finished with my 3rd reading of Purgatorio (I'm on Canto 31). I was fortunate to have taken classes on the Commedia in both high school and college, which are a big help.
I don't know which translation you're reading, but I'm reading the newish one by Anthony Esolen. I'm in no position to comment on the accuracy of the translation, but his canto-by-canto introductions, along with his notes at the end of each chapter, are invuabale, both in negotiating the obscure medieval Tuscan politics, and in understanding Dante's theological, philosohpical, and literary background.
The best thing about this translation is that includes the original text alongside the translation. As I mentioned, I don't know a word of Medival Italian, but I know Spanish and Latin, and that helps in understanding the translation -- and in appreciating Dante's many humorous jokes and asides.
To be honest, I'm not sure if I'm going to immediately move on to Paradiso. I've only read it once before, and it's much denser than the previous two books, and nowhere near as much fun as Inferno.
If you're interested, the SparkNotes for Inferno are available for free online:
http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/inferno/
(http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/inferno/)
They approach the Commedia on a very basic level, but they're very helpful in explaining background information.
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Ever since I got my second hand Kindle, something I didn't really want, I have downloaded 49 books. I try to limit myself to the special offers and the free or lower priced ones.
I must say I have discovered quite a few gems, even among the free books, one was called The Hundred Year Old Man Who Stepped Out Of The Window And Disappeared, which is now on the book stands a a best seller and paperback, its a whimsical tale which keeps you smiling throughout.
The one thing about Amazon is it remembers every book you even browsed, never mind buy and they bombard you with recommendations. I do quite like an end of the world theme, got hooked in my teens having read John Wyndham's Day Of The Triffids (published in 1951.) If you haven't read it 12 Weeks Later stole the beginning (zombies replaced walking carnivorous plants.)
Anyway I have been surprised how many novels there are around the theme of the end of the world and my latest is An Empty Land of Plenty.
Go to the Guttenburg Project they have literally hundreds of out of copyright books available for no payment. Many are the classics we all know and love.
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www.librivox.org
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Have just started The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss.
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I'm halfway through with Ken Follett's Winter of the World. It's good reading.
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John Norman's Gor Saga.
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Revolt Against The Modern World - Julius Evola
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A fascinating book that involves a beagle who harbours delusions of being a fighter pilot and routinely engaging in fruitless battles against his long term nemesis who flies a red plane.
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A fascinating book that involves a beagle who harbours delusions of being a fighter pilot and routinely engaging in fruitless battles against his long term nemesis who flies a red plane.
You finished your autobiography? :emot_laughing: :emot_kiss:
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You finished your autobiography? [/color]:emot_laughing: :emot_kiss:
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Hidden Nature: The Startling Insights of Viktor Schauberger (by Alick Bartholomew)
This title pioneers a new Science of Nature. It offers striking new arguments against GM technologies. It proposes startling solutions to our energy needs. It includes a foreword by David Bellamy Austrian naturalist. Viktor Schauberger (1885-1958) was far ahead of his time. From his unusually detailed observations of the natural world, he pioneered a completely new understanding of how nature works. He also foresaw, and tried to warn against, the global waste and ecological destruction of our age. This book describes and explains Schauberger's insights in contemporary, accessible language. His remarkable discoveries - which address issues such as sick water, ailing forests, climate change and, above all, renewable energy - have dramatic implications for how we should work with nature and its resources.
This book blows me away and makes me sad at the same time. This is the stuff that should be taught in schools and universities. These are the technologies that should be developed asap. If not, then in the not too distant future wars will be waged for the most precious and currently most underappreciated possession we have: fresh, drinkable water.
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I couldn't agree with you more Bexy.....Woo that!
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Tree Surgery for Beginners - Patrick Gale -- it's a hoot!
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CONVICTED-Aleatha Romig
Awesome mindf**k of a book!
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The Blood Gospel by James Rollins & Rebecca Cantrell
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Kelly Slater's autobiography
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Terry Goodkind "Wizard's First Rule"
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Time of Contempt by Andrzej Sapkowski.
The 3rd book in the The Witcher series.
A Witcher is a professional monster slayer who has been genetically modified at an early age and trained to hunt, track and kill monsters of various types.
I'm also reading a sex novel called 'Whalebone Strict' by Lady Alice McCloud.
Basically Britain didn't loose the War of Independence and the British empire is intact. The main character, Thrift Moncrieff has adventures which lead her to various countries and she ends up in various sexual situations from lesbianism, bondage, piss play, anal - well you get the idea.
It's the third of a series and all of the books are easy to read, extremely horny and very well written.
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Reading "The last Dark: The last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant" - Stephen R Donaldson.
Read the first chronicles of Thomas Covenant over 20 years ago. This is the third and final set he just released this last book in Oct. Damn some authors take forever to tell a story. Much like Stephen King's Dark Tower series which took years to get to the end or Jean Auel's Children of the Earth series.
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Currently I am Reading "The Innocent" By David Baldacci
I really like his work.
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I picked up ":The Walking Dead Compendium" book one and two at a comic/pop culture show on Saturday. I got the two for $60 total. Felt pretty good as the best I've seen them for on line is $50 each. I'm about a quarter way thru the first book.
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"The Quickie" by James Patterson
So far is a very good book. I read it years ago when it first came out in paperback. Thought I'd give it another go.
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Dream Weaver and Picture Maker
Both excellent books about early america on the east coast.
Author is : Penina Keen Spinka
Books are kind of old (2003) you may have a hard time finding them.
Love,
Liz
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"Hell's Corner" - Baldacci
One of his Camel Club books.
Is all about Washington Politics and the different police agencies and how they do or don't work together.
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Just about to start "King and Maxwell", the newest Baldacci book. I also enjoy his writing.
Also I've been re-reading "Noble House" by James Clavell, from the 1980s.
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Ghosts by Paul Roland... All good stuff so far...
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Deerskin by Robin McKinley
Is a fantasy fairytale based on an old story, Donkeyskin. There is not much dialogue, so for those folks that like lots of dialogue you might not enjoy it. Is about a princess who when she is 17, is raped by her father. She flees the kingdom with her beloved dog, Ash.
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Paddle Your Own Canoe. It's Nick Offerman's autobiography and "guide to manly living". He plays Ron Swanson on Parks and Recreation. It's good for a laugh now and then. He's to young and hasn't accomplished enough to write a book about it in my opinion, but I do admire his woodworking skills and his moustache growing ability.
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Tears of Tess by Pepper Winters
Well written book about a girl sold into sexual slavery that enjoys pain with sex - the insight into the psyche of a woman that is 'sick and depraved' like that makes me give it 5 stars...
Not often you find a book that deals with sado/masochism and sex that one can recommend :)
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Tune In: The Beatles: All These Years, Volume 1,’ by Mark Lewisohn
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"The Quickie" by James Patterson
So far is a very good book. I read it years ago when it first came out in paperback. Thought I'd give it another go.
they made a movie about that one in the 80's did they ? starring brant miller ?
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Started reading American Gods today. Meant to read it long time ago, but never found the right time.
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Doorway to December- when i get the time. i love dean koontz.
mikki
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i too just finished a reread of Noble House by James Clavell. I'm looking for the rest of his far east series.
Atm i'm reading "The Difference Engine" by Bruce Sterling. pretty good easy read.
"The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand is next. It's about a 3rd reread
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The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
I actually listen to it on an audio book - read by Davina Porter. Excellent brain entertainment when doing boring chores.
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The Crystal Shard by R. A. Salvatore.
It is book 4 of 25 in 'The Legend of Drizzt' series.
The first 3 were really good, but I just started this one.
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I've been reading 2 books simultaneously by the same author and just finished one a couple of days ago.
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After Dark (アフターダーク Afutā Dāku) by Haruki Murakami: A short, sleek novel of encounters set in Tokyo during the witching hours between midnight and dawn. It's in Japanese but there's an English translation by Jay Rubin. This is the book I just finished.
I'm halfway with this book.
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South of the Border, West of the Sun (国境の南、太陽の西 Kokkyō no Minami, Taiyō no Nishi) by Haruki Murakami; there is a translation by Philip Gabriel: It tells the story of Hajime, starting from his childhood in a small town in Japan. Here he meets a girl, Shimamoto, who is also an only child and suffers from polio, which causes her to drag her leg as she walks. They spend most of their time together talking about their interests in life and listening to records on Shimamoto's stereo. They join different high schools and grow apart. They are reunited again at the age of 36, Hajime now the father of two children and owner of two successful jazz bars in Aoyama, the trendy part of Tokyo.
With Shimamoto never giving any detail as to her own life and appearing only at random intervals, she haunts him as a constant 'what if'. Despite his current situation, meeting Shimamoto again sets off a chain of events that eventually forces Hajime to choose between his wife and family or attempting to recapture the magic of the past.
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Currently I am re-reading "Locked On" by Tom Clancy.....It is a big ass book and I want to make sure I have culled all of the juicy morsels out if jack Ryan and his son. LOL
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A science fiction book:
"A wrinkle in time"......by Madeleine L'Engle.
After that I'll read the two sequels to it.
" A wind in the door"
" A swiftly tilting planet"
Be advised that all of these books are 30 years old and may be difficult to find.
Love,
Liz
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Just read a real thriller, Target by Simon Kernick... the best book I've read in ages...
vinney
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At the moment I'm re-reading Wilbur Smith's Egyptian series of books.
The first is "River God"
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There are 4 books in the series:
"River God"
"The Seventh Scroll"
"Warlock"
"The Quest"
"The Seventh Scroll" is set in modern times, where as the others are written in Ancient Egypt.
So.. I have to decide whether to read them in the order they were written, or in chronological order leaving "The Seventh Scroll" till last. Decisions decisions....
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Am currently reading When The Rivers Run Dry: Water - The Defining Crises Of The Twenty-first Century by Fred Pearce
Mr. Pearce traveled the world over and discusses the ramifications of the planet's water supply. If nothing is done mankind won't have to worry about who is world leader because the population will be starving to death. It's time to wake up people!
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Am currently reading When The Rivers Run Dry: Water - The Defining Crises Of The Twenty-first Century by Fred Pearce
Mr. Pearce traveled the world over and discusses the ramifications of the planet's water supply. If nothing is done mankind won't have to worry about who is world leader because the population will be starving to death. It's time to wake up people!
Won't we all die of thirst first Becca?
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I'm currently reading "Split Second" By David Baldacci....
If anyone is familiar with the Characters from the TV show Maxwell and King well this is the story of how they became partners....
Sean King is a former Secret service agent that lost one of his charges many years before the story took place and now owns his own Law firm. Michelle Maxwell, has JUST lost one of her protectees in the Secret Service and her career has suffered as a result.
Looking forward to this book.
Janus
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At the moment I'm re-reading Wilbur Smith's Egyptian series of books.
The first is "River God"
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There are 4 books in the series:
"River God"
"The Seventh Scroll"
"Warlock"
"The Quest"
"The Seventh Scroll" is set in modern times, where as the others are written in Ancient Egypt.
So.. I have to decide whether to read them in the order they were written, or in chronological order leaving "The Seventh Scroll" till last. Decisions decisions....
I bought The Seventh Scroll and Warlock at a used book store a while back, and haven't gotten around to reading them. I had no idea they were related or part of a series. Good thing I haven't gotten around to them yet, I suppose =)
Now that I know, I think I will get the rest and read them in the order that they were published.
As for what I am reading at the moment, I'm chewing on The Wheel of Time. A gigantic book series. I believe the estimate is about 4,500,000 words for the whole thing, with the series spanning four different decades.
I started reading it when I was a teenager, and got to book 9 before I caught up with where the series was at. With something like 3 years between books, by the time I read the next one, I'd forgotten so much that I decided to stop, and re-read the entire series once the series had been completed.
Now that it's been completed, I'm finally going to finish it.
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Have gone back to reread something I first read in the 1960s. "Stranger In A Strange Land", is even more endearing now. Fifty years ago Heinlein's view of the future seemed exotic and something to look forward to. With today's technology, it now seems quaint. In many areas we've far surpassed his vision. Michael Smith however, could only come from the mind of the great favorite author I grew up with. A most enjoyable read...well, listen. I do mostly audiobooks now, but still keep a real paper book going in the "library".
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The last two books in the Damask Circle series by Keri Arthur,
http://www.keriarthur.com/books/the-damask-circle-series/
They finally showed up at Half Price Books. :D I read the first in the series long enough ago that I'd forgotten the characters by now.
Utterly aside, that katana is WAAAYYYY too long!
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I am currently reading Warlord by Angus Donald. It a historical fiction and the fourth in the outlaw chronicles series. Loosely based around the Robin Hood and told from the perspective of Will Scarlet.
Also have on the go the fifth in the Kydd series by Julian Stockwell. Based around a Pressganged Sailor and his rise through the ranks prior to and during the Napoleonic wars
Now here is a question, book or e-reader? Personaly I prefer the tactilness of a book.
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I'm with you Boris. Love the feel of the pages in my hand. However, my wife, due to vision problems started listening to audiobooks years ago. We like the same authors and ended up getting both the book and audio versions. Later I got a job as a courier, spending 8 - 9 hours a day in the car. I switched to audio too and listened as I worked. Would go through one or two books a week. Still listening, even tho' I'm retired, but I keep a real book in "the library".
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Real books for me, I've no interest in getting any sort of e-reader. I'm not reading anything at the moment, I enjoy non fiction and nothing has caught my eye lately.
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Now here is a question, book or e-reader? Personally I prefer the tactile-nes of a book.
This is a thread starter question if ever there was one.
I have a Kindle that is still in the box somewhere. LOL I got it as a gift from my kids for X-mas. I asked for it too. I don't know why I haven't fired the damned thing up.
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Janus, reckon I should ask the question on book e-reader preferences?
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Janus, reckon I should ask the question on book e-reader preferences?
Heck yeah man. You were the initial person who brought it up so I leave it to you to start a thread about it. I know I will post in it for sure. :D
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Consider it done!
Mr B
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Never knew this thread existed. How cool looking through and seeing that all my KB friends don't just read porn stories. ;) And also cool that many of my favorites are being read by some of you.
To catch up with the thread and fill you in on my favorites, I've read...
Thrillers:
Read all of Tom Clancy, Nelson Demille, James Patterson, David Baldacci, and Lee Child. A couple Ken Follet books. If you like Clancy, check out Vince Flynn's Mitch Rapp series.
In Fantasy/Historical Fiction:
Jean Auel's Earths Children series. And thanks to Jondalart (formerly LFK), I discovered this week another book was released that I didn't know about.
Terry Goodkind, Robert Jordan, and Wilbur Smith's ancient Eqypt series - didn't read The Quest or Seventh Scroll. They're on my radar now though. Actually had forgot about this author until I read back through this thread.
Local Authors - Mitch Albom and Charlie LeDuff.
Numerous historical baseball books focusing on the early 1900's thru the 60's
Currently reading Brandon Sanderson's "The Way of Kings".
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The last two books in the Damask Circle series by Keri Arthur,
http://www.keriarthur.com/books/the-damask-circle-series/
They finally showed up at Half Price Books. :D I read the first in the series long enough ago that I'd forgotten the characters by now.
Utterly aside, that katana is WAAAYYYY too long!
Maybe it's a ninjato, not a katana.
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I'm definitely a reader, and my favourite genre is mystery. I love Agatha Christie, but currently I'm re-reading Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult. If you like mysteries or courtroom dramas I'd definitely recommend her stuff. Mercy, The Pact, Plain Truth, Salem Falls, Perfect Match, My Sister's Keeper, The Tenth Circle, Nineteen Minutes, Change of Heart, Handle With Care, and House Rules are all ones that I've read, and enjoyed very much. Honestly, Handle With Care had me crying, and My Sister's Keeper had me absolutely sobbing (don't think you know why if you've seen the movie. They changed the ending!)
Most of them are courtroom dramas, with what's typically a pretty big twist at the end.
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Now here is a question, book or e-reader? Personally I prefer the tactile-nes of a book.
This is a thread starter question if ever there was one.
I have a Kindle that is still in the box somewhere. LOL I got it as a gift from my kids for X-mas. I asked for it too. I don't know why I haven't fired the damned thing up.
I used to feel that way, but now I love my kindle. I have an entire library for the weight of one book.
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Now here is a question, book or e-reader? Personally I prefer the tactile-nes of a book.
I always love the satisfaction of slamming a good book shut when I finish it, and you can't get 50 cent used books on your e-reader. I did, however, get an iPad for Christmas for other uses, but have discovered that I love reading on it. Some of the pros of the e-reading are: a) I can get a multitude of free books from my local library, using my card number to log in. I keep them for 14 days, when they delete themselves from my library. b) I can read in the dark! I've always been able to read in a moving vehicle, but with my e-reader, I can read even when it gets dark out. c) Being a fast reader, I always like to have more than one book on me at a time. With the e-reader, I can carry 4 or 5 books at a time, and not worry about how much space they're taking up.
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Almost exclusively ereader.
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I'm currently reading a a couple of stories at a time, from this book, before bedtime:
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"The Resuce Of Belle and Sundance"
A true life story......
Love,
Liz
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I just finished DollBaby by Laura L McNeal
(civil rights-era New Orleans). I'll give it ☆☆☆☆ stars.
I do have issue with the lending policy on kindle. Anyone else?
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Just starting The Magpies by Mark Edwards... Not sure if I can get into it yet...
vinney
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My cousin picked up Stephen King's Just After Sunset for me. I'd been re-reading his short stories in Everything's Eventual and Nightmares & Dreamscapes and had been looking forward to this collection of short stories.
I'm reading the first story at the moment, Willa.
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The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage
by Todd Gitlin
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A Well-Tempered Heart by Jan-Philipp Sendker
Is about a woman, Julia, who goes to Burma (Malyasia) to visit her half-brother, U Bu, to learn about her Burmese ancestors.
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I ordered Outlander by Diana Gabaldon. 'Women's porn'. ;D
Reading right now: Richard Scarry's Best Nursery Tales Ever... over and over if I would let my son have his way.
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I am still knee deep in Outlander. Not that I am complaining... :emot_kiss:
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Rosemary's Baby and the Martian Chronicles.
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Lawrence Sanders, The First Deadly Sin. First read some forty years ago, hell of a book.
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Found this in an old book shop.
"Black Beauty"......by Anna Sewell
I know most of you are thinking that it's a children's book, but it really isn't just that.
It's about cruelty towards horses.
Black Beauty was written in 1875/76 and published in 1877, it was the only book that Anna Sewell ever wrote, after writing it she died.
The copy I found in the book shop is in leather and has a publisher date of 1904.
I believe it's a first or second reprint of the original.
And no you don't wanna know what I paid for it........Not Cheap!!!
Love,
Liz
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I think I was 10 or 11 when I was awarded the book 'Black Beauty' as a prize for some school work. Sadly I no longer have it in my possession... I gave it to the children's ward of the local hospital when I had a clear out of books before I left home...
Currently reading "Witch" by Rochelle Moore...
vinney
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Some months ago I found hard cover copies in a case (covered cardboard) of Herman Wouk's "Winds of War" and "War and Remembrance". Got them for under $10 in a used book store. Just finished "Winds of War" and now starting "War and Remembrance". They're very historically accurate as the the actual events of WWII, set around a fictional family and their parts in the war. The TV series is available on Netflix. The German treatment of the Jews includes some of the most horrific scenes I've ever seen (maybe because it really happened) They were shown on ABC and the producers insisted the full nudity not be cut and they got their way. Trust me, it's not even close to sexy...just a graphic depiction of the horrors of that era.
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I am into my 4th book of Outlander. Drums of Autumn. Still going strong.
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"End of the World Running Club"
Adrian J Walker
An ordinary married man finds himself needing to travel the length of England after a massive meteorite storm devastates the northern hemisphere.
A lot of very different, very realistic responses to the disaster from the survivors met on the way. It's got to be the most British apocalypse story I have ever read, very well worth the £1.99
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Defending Jacob. It's a tour de force thus far.
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The World of Count Basie by Stanley Dance
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I know it's old. I am reading The Handmaid's Tale
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Mysterious Powers, Spirits and Spirit Worlds... by Colin Wilson and Roy Stemman... just don't look behind ya.. :o
vinney
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The Persian Wars by Herodotus
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I got a couple of freebies downloaded to try. One is "If" by George Kempis. The other is erotica "The Business of Pleasure" by Justine Elyot. The former is interesting for a light and unusual read. The latter is...pure escapism. Both seem decent for freebies :D
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"The Bone Yard" by Jefferson Bass
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"Divinity of Doubt" subtitled The God Question, by Vincent Bugliosi. He previously wrote among other titles "Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders."
Does God exist? I don't know, and neither do you.
He makes some good points. Organized religions are quite silly with ritual. Atheists are equally silly in their assertion that God doesn't exist. I don't think he deals much with Christian mystics and others who claim a direct apprehension of God or the near-death experiences, which deserves some examination even if it's all chemical reactions in the brain.
Aaron
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I dug out my copy of Vampires edited by Alan Ryan a few weeks ago, "Two Centuries Of Great Vampire Stories".
Here's the ones i've reread recently:
Dracula's Guest [Bram Stoker]
The Transfer [Algernon Blackwood]
The Room In The Tower [E.F. Benson]
An Episode Of Cathedral History
[Clark Ashton Smith]
Cabin 33 [Chelsea Quinn Yarbro]
A favorite of mine
Unicorn Tapestry [Suzy Mckee Charnas]
Another favorite
I'm reading "Revelations In Black" now by Carl Jacobi.
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The Lincoln Myth by Steve Berry
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The Maze Runner Trilogy.
The movie was pretty good, so I thought I'd give the books a try.
Love,
Liz
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The Eye of Heaven by Clive Cussler. Must be about the 30th book written by him that I have read.
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Just finished Inside the Jihad. Its fascinating. And for many it can be an eye-opener.
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Just finished Inside the Jihad. Its fascinating. And for many it can be an eye-opener.
Insatiable. Glad to see you back posting. We missed you.
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Currently reading Imajica by Clive Barker.
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Same Vampire compliation, before putting it away again I read
The Mysterious Stranger (1860)
Anonymous
For The Blood Is The Life (1911)
F. Marion Crawford
The Werewolf And The Vampire (1975)
R. Chetwynd-Hayes
The last one is funny as well but the humor fits the story. It's set in England where a dim-witted young man gets bitten by a werewolf and doesn't know it until he finds out from a family of vampires. He marries the daughter and they're persecuted by an overeager turd named Reverend John Cole whose congregation thinks he's out of his head when he starts preaching about werewolves and vampires from the palpit :P
They have a werevamp baby before the story ends with a confrontation with the Reverend and the only person who believes him, a twelve year old boy!
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I am finally reading the Fire and Ice series by George R. R. Martin. Game of Thrones for those not into it.
I find his style to be very gritty, realistic, and depressing. So real in the cross-purposes that otherwise possible allies find themselves in. It reminds me of Glen Cooks Black Company series.
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I liked some older authors but the one I am into now is Lee Childs I have other favs in other areas but he is the male titing the windmills of life that isn't always fair so many authors I love who bring me from my silly life intotheir fantasies i guess like you do I was a child in southern New Mexico with no mama or daddy and read books to escape into somewhere that was yes an escape and maybe that's what I do now I am going to try to do that too try to create a story that will take you away from there to where it may lead us and we will not feel alone for a moment or two Scotty maybe silly hmm
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re-reading The Great Railway Bazaar - by train across Asia by Paul Theroux. Still worth reading despite his right wing nonsense.
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I'm a few pages from finishing Stephen King's Pet Sematary again. Pet Sematary and The Dead Zone were the very first books I bought by Stephen King.
For a long time all I bought were his books in paperback. When you look at them you can tell how old they are! :P
I've read Pet Sematary seven times, The Dead Zone four. I've read Needful Things three times and all the others only once or twice.
I had always read Stephen King for the "entertainment value", or the "shock value". I had never did any serious thinking as I read one of his novels. But i'm finding that i've without realizing it "matured". :P If that's even the right word. Now when i'm reading one of his stories i've read before I find myself getting upset, wondering why he had to do this or that. Or i'll stop reading to think, Well, what if this character had done this instead? It's weird that after reading a story so many times now I start questioning things the way i've been doing...
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Knight After Night by Phil Rickman... a supernatural thriller... gripping...
vinney
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Hey GG......
Remember what the Station Master said as you boarded the train..................
"Be Careful Of What You Wish For".........
:D
Love,
Liz
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I'm a few pages from finishing Stephen King's Pet Sematary again. Pet Sematary and The Dead Zone were the very first books I bought by Stephen King.
For a long time all I bought were his books in paperback. When you look at them you can tell how old they are! :P
I've read Pet Sematary seven times, The Dead Zone four. I've read Needful Things three times and all the others only once or twice.
I had always read Stephen King for the "entertainment value", or the "shock value". I had never did any serious thinking as I read one of his novels. But i'm finding that i've without realizing it "matured". :P If that's even the right word. Now when i'm reading one of his stories i've read before I find myself getting upset, wondering why he had to do this or that. Or i'll stop reading to think, Well, what if this character had done this instead? It's weird that after reading a story so many times now I start questioning things the way i've been doing...
Kind of along the same lines, I finished Dreamcatcher not too long ago by King. I enjoyed the beginning and middle with all the merging storylines, but the ending felt rushed. Extremely rushed, as if he has to meet a deadline. Just curious if you'd read it and felt the same.
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I read Dreamcatcher once. I have it in hardcover. The only thing that bothered me was the number of main characters who had to die.
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Reading a book titled "Frostfire" by Hocking.
It's part one of a trilogy of books (the other two are not out yet).
Also finishing up on the "DUNE" series (not just reading them, but collecting the books as well).
:D
Love,
Liz
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Yeah, i'm find myself to be more of a collector. I have many books i haven't read, and i'm not sure if I will.
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I read Dreamcatcher once. I have it in hardcover. The only thing that bothered me was the number of main characters who had to die.
I thought it was nonsensical to the story. I get the whole "there can be only one" idea, but when you've read it so many times over, I would expect more from Stephen King. -shrugs-
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Yeah, i'm find myself to be more of a collector. I have many books i haven't read, and i'm not sure if I will.
LOL..GG.
I have a "small" library of books (somewhere around 1500 of them).
That covers Science, History, Classics, Military History, Science Fiction, University Text Books (Yeah, I kept them). Lots of General Reading Books and some (I'll admit) comic books as well (hardbound and paper comics as well) (Calvin and Hobbs are my favorite).
:D
Love,
Liz
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Yeah, i'm find myself to be more of a collector. I have many books i haven't read, and i'm not sure if I will.
LOL..GG.
I have a "small" library of books (somewhere around 1500 of them).
That covers Science, History, Classics, Military History, Science Fiction, University Text Books (Yeah, I kept them). Lots of General Reading Books and some (I'll admit) comic books as well (hardbound and paper comics as well) (Calvin and Hobbs are my favorite).
:D
Love,
Liz
I LOVE Calvin and Hobbes! Have a collection, as well! ;)
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I have several bookcases full, books behind books, books stacked on books. Books in boxes, I have to have at least as many as you, Liz.
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I have several bookcases full, books behind books, books stacked on books. Books in boxes, I have to have at least as many as you, Liz.
Yes...But the "Important Question Is: .................................................................
...
....................."Do you have any Books on or about Horses"? ..................................
:D
Love,
Liz
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Liz, Liz, Liz. Who needs books on or about horses, when we have a resident expert on horses here already? :^)
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I know just the place to look for books ... and the library assistant is very helpful...
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Rene Descartes - Discourse on Method and the Meditations - old philosophy but worth a read.
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My library is filled with books ( 3-4000 of them) with everything from Art, gardening, the natural world, dogs, horses, birds, music, politics, the law, 185 anthologies of poetry from all around the world in many languages, classic literature, erotica (about 40 volumes,) biographies (music, writers and art mainly), travel, world history, geology and some military history (WW2 mostly regarding Australian Army histories), health, psychology and art practice. It will grow but I will need a bigger library space soon.
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Walden by Henry David Thoreau.
Love,
Liz
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Has anyone read anything by Bentley Little? I've read The Return and The Vanishing.
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The girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins...
vinney
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I got pestered into reading 50 Shades and frankly the first few chapters are nearly worse than Twilight. (Ex wife made me read those 4 books while we were together... Egads! The Jr. High level of writing!)
So far about the only thing passable in 50 Shades is I happen to like the name Anastasia Steele. Beyond that? Uhmm.. Suffering until it gets better. It does get better doesn't it?
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Some od us like Jr. High reading level stories more than others. :P I still read my Hardy Boys Mysteries when the mood strikes me. lol
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I got pestered into reading 50 Shades and frankly the first few chapters are nearly worse than Twilight. (Ex wife made me read those 4 books while we were together... Egads! The Jr. High level of writing!)
So far about the only thing passable in 50 Shades is I happen to like the name Anastasia Steele. Beyond that? Uhmm.. Suffering until it gets better. It does get better doesn't it?
No, but one man's junk is another man's treasure. I struggled through the first one and gave up a few pages into the second.
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The girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins...
vinney
We were probably reading it about the same time, Vinney. Good book. Lot of twists. I enjoyed it.
Right now... The Accidental Tourist. Why/How I ended up with this book, I have no idea, but wish I hadn't. Too much time invested in it to give up on it now. Should finish it tomorrow.
I think the new Nelson Demille will be next...Radiant Angle. Keeping my eye out for a cheap used hardcover copy to pop up on Ebay/Amazon.
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The girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins...
vinney
We were probably reading it about the same time, Vinney. Good book. Lot of twists. I enjoyed it.
Right now... The Accidental Tourist. Why/How I ended up with this book, I have no idea, but wish I hadn't. Too much time invested in it to give up on it now. Should finish it tomorrow.
I think the new Nelson Demille will be next...Radiant Angle. Keeping my eye out for a cheap used hardcover copy to pop up on Ebay/Amazon.
What with reading the same book and pervin' at the same women on KB, Joe, we must be on the same wave length...
Now getting into a book by an author I haven't heard of before, Nick Alexander - called The Photographer's Wife. First chapter is a look back to the East End of London during the WW2 blitz.. next chapter brings us to the present... Still wondering if I'll really get into it.
vinney
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Supercontinent: 10 Billion Years In The Life Of Our Planet
Nothing like a well-written pop-sci book to keep me professionally up to date.
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One of the moms on my daughters t-ball team just finished "Radiant Angel" by Nelson Demille. So, got it for nothing and will have it returned to her by Monday.
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David Baldacci - John Puller series. Read Book 1 "Zero Day" and Book 2 "The Forgotten" were read over the past week. Just downloaded Book 3, "The Escape", to my kindle.
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I'm reading a super old copy of "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan.
I found it in a box of books at a used book store, books by the way that they were going to throw out because no one had any interest.
Love,
Liz
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Now started reading Lullaby Girl by Aly Sidgwick... Interesting opening pages...
vinney
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Name of the Wind by Rothfuss
and
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
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14 by Peter Clines. Given to me by another one of the mom's on Lin's t-ball team.
This book is out there. Present time, but the apartment building the book is set in sci-fi. If I didn't know the author, I'd have guessed Stephen King. Not really my cup of tea, but entertaining. Should wrap it up this weekend.
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Just read Humber Boy B by Ruth Dugdall... fascinating story about a probation officer...
It's worth a read...
vinney
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Currently reading:
The Kid by Dan Savage. It's a book he wrote about him and his boyfriend's (now husband) experience of adopting a baby. Great laughs and good insights.
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van der Kolk, a fascinating psychology book on the effects of trauma on the body and chronic health.
You by Caroline Kepnes. Supposedly an erotic thriller. Fascinating and sexy, but not very erotic or exceptionally thrilling.
Yes, I like to have a few books going at the same time.
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...all these eloquent books and I just re-read the Bloom County anthologies in honor of it coming back (albeit on FB).
I haven't read much lately as I have been too busy writing. Currently on book 3 of a fiction series and just tripped writing page 1,050 of this particular one in Word with about 1/3rd to go. I should probably reign it in as it's a little longer than the first two (640 and 918 pages respectively). Scary enough, I have book 4 in mind for it but it wouldn't be as long. I hope...
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...all these eloquent books and I just re-read the Bloom County anthologies in honor of it coming back (albeit on FB).
Had to Google Bloom County and must say it looks like something I'd be into! Shame I'm allergic to Facebook...
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Calvin and Hobbs........
My parents swear that the author based his stories on my life.
(I was that bad of a child?).....
:D
Love,
Liz
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Technically, I hardly read anything anymore, but I listen to a lot of audiobooks. Truck driving, you know. I just finished Dave Barry's Money Secrets this morning, and I'm maybe a third of the way through The Atrocity Archive by Charles Stross. I figure the Laundry Files should keep me going at least till the end of next week. After that, I'm not sure what I'll listen to next. Maybe go through my H Beam Piper collection again, or maybe some Lovecraft. I'll just have to go through the list when the time comes, and see what sounds good.
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Calvin and Hobbs........
My parents swear that the author based his stories on my life.
(I was that bad of a child?).....
:D
Love,
Liz
yay Liz!
I was in college when I was introduced to Bill Watterson's C&H. A prof would start the day out with the days strip on the overhead projector. I fell in love with the cartoon. I have all the books.
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Fall of the Dynasties by Edmond Taylor. It's nonfiction about how WWI led to the collapse of the; German, Austro-Hungarian, Russian, and Ottoman Empires and that caused the rise of; Nazism/Fascism, WWII, and the Cold War. I know, real exciting stuff.
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Fall of the Dynasties by Edmond Taylor. It's nonfiction about how WWI led to the collapse of the; German, Austro-Hungarian, Russian, and Ottoman Empires and that caused the rise of; Nazism/Fascism, WWII, and the Cold War. I know, real exciting stuff.
That DOES sound exciting to me. I just added it to my reading list.
Thanks for the recommendation!
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Fall of the Dynasties by Edmond Taylor. It's nonfiction about how WWI led to the collapse of the; German, Austro-Hungarian, Russian, and Ottoman Empires and that caused the rise of; Nazism/Fascism, WWII, and the Cold War. I know, real exciting stuff.
Sounds similar to a book called Wilson's War, also an excellent work.
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Thank you Miss Barbara and Taxman (and thanks for the tip Taxman) Either of you two or any other of my fellow history nerds you might like The Thirteenth, The Greatest of Centuries by John Walsh.
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Troubleshooting with Wireshark :emot_laughing:
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Still trying to find the rest of Terry Pratchett's 'Discworld' series (I'd started re-reading them last September...), as well as a handful of urban fantasy books by Rachel Caine, Katie MacAlister, Kim Harrison, Cara Lockwood and Keri Arthur that I just picked up today to continue on with various series. :D
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I think I know the Rachael Caine series that you are talking about, I didn't like it. If you like urban fantasy, I suggest the Dresden Files by Butcher.
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Chasers of the Light by Tyler Knott Gregson.
It's very...emotional stuff, but it's almost identical to how I write. What I wouldn't give to have someone write so beautifully about me...he/she would own my heart.
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I think I know the Rachael Caine series that you are talking about, I didn't like it. If you like urban fantasy, I suggest the Dresden Files by Butcher.
I second The Dresden Files.
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Still trying to find the rest of Terry Pratchett's 'Discworld' series (I'd started re-reading them last September...), as well as a handful of urban fantasy books by Rachel Caine, Katie MacAlister, Kim Harrison, Cara Lockwood and Keri Arthur that I just picked up today to continue on with various series. :D
Abe Book Search is good for finding old books.
Try that.
:D
Love,
Liz
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Abe Books and I are dear old friends. :emot_kiss: I had to find SOMEONE when I told Amazon to kiss my ass.
I'd had an Amazon account for YEARS. I'd bought quite literally THOUSANDS of dollars worth of books through them, maybe tens of thousands. I buy a fuckload of books. At one point Amazon refused my credit card, and told me that I had to give them access to my main bank account. I told them that they could go piss up a rope, and I'd take my future THOUSANDS of dollars worth of business elsewhere. I've never gone back.
Sadly, a friend gave me an Amazon gift card last year, not knowing how much I hate Amazon. I tried to use it a few months ago, and FUCKING WELL COULDN'T. Here I have a plastic card that someone paid Amazon UP FRONT for, and Amazon refuses to honor it (place any kind of order whatsoever) UNLESS I GIVE THEM MY CREDIT CARD INFO. You can jolly well bet that I'm NEVER going to give Amazon access to any of my accounts ever again. The $25 gift card is now totally useless. Since I've 'redeemed' it, I can't give the money to anyone else, and I can't use it myself without giving a dishonest company my credit info. Not a fucking chance.
So, I wrote off the $25 and told my friend thanks, but please don't ever give me another gift card to a company that I flat won't ever do business with again. That latest stunt (requiring CC info for a GIFT CARD) absolutely pisses me off to the point that I'll happily bad-mouth Amazon FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE.
Hi, Abe. Here's my CC#. Please send me the books I've asked for. Done! Thanks!
I think I know the Rachael Caine series that you are talking about, I didn't like it. If you like urban fantasy, I suggest the Dresden Files by Butcher.
Already read that whole series. ;D
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Hmmm, then another urban fantasy series you might like is Larry Correia's Monster Hunter International series. That one is quite good and doesn't take itself too seriously. I call it "gun porn" since there is a lot of focus on guns in it.
Bartimaeus series by Stroud is good too
Those are the only other 2 urban fantasy series I can think of. I have a book called "Urban Shaman" that was recommended to me but I havnt gotten around to reading it yet.
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I'm currently reading City of Glass by Cassandra Clare. Why the hell can't I find any fantasy fiction anymore that isn't targeted at 14-year-old girls?
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I'm currently reading City of Glass by Cassandra Clare. Why the hell can't I find any fantasy fiction anymore that isn't targeted at 14-year-old girls?
Just google for fantasy books like Game of Thrones. There are lot of good gritty fantasy books out there.
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Leviathan Wakes
By Corey, James S. A.
The Windup Girl
By Bacigalupi, Paolo
Science Fiction binge confession.
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I'm currently reading City of Glass by Cassandra Clare. Why the hell can't I find any fantasy fiction anymore that isn't targeted at 14-year-old girls?
Have you tried the Dune series? That is pretty much the gold standard for fiction fantasy as well as fantasy fiction.
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I'm currently reading City of Glass by Cassandra Clare. Why the hell can't I find any fantasy fiction anymore that isn't targeted at 14-year-old girls?
Have you tried the Dune series? That is pretty much the gold standard for fiction fantasy as well as fantasy fiction.
Robert Jordan's "Wheel Of Time" while a long series of books is pretty good reading also.
Love,
Liz
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I'm currently reading City of Glass by Cassandra Clare. Why the hell can't I find any fantasy fiction anymore that isn't targeted at 14-year-old girls?
Have you tried the Dune series? That is pretty much the gold standard for fiction fantasy as well as fantasy fiction.
Robert Jordan's "Wheel Of Time" while a long series of books is pretty good reading also.
Love,
Liz
Love it! One of my favorite series of all time for sure.
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Started the Liad Universe audiobooks, by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller, last week. I'm a couple hours into #4 - Trade Secrets. It's always been one of my favorite scifi series.
I'm currently reading City of Glass by Cassandra Clare. Why the hell can't I find any fantasy fiction anymore that isn't targeted at 14-year-old girls?
I'd recommend the following, for non-14-year-old-girl, high-grit fantasy:
The Dresden Files, by Jim Butcher (Urban fantasy, set mainly in Chicago)
Codex Alera, also by Jim Butcher (best described as Romans with Pokemon, according to tvtropes)
The Black Company series, by Glen Cook
Garrett PI, also by Glen Cook
The Malazan Book of the Fallen, by Steve Erikson
MythAdventures, by Robert Asprin (low-grit fantasy, as I recall)
Paksenarrion series, by Elizabeth Moon
The Recluse series, by L E Modesitt, Jr
Of course, none of these are really new, and it occurs to me that you probably already know about them.
I could go on, but I need to get my ass moving for Michigan. Happy reading!
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The Back Road by Rachel Abbott...
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"And the Sea Will Tell" by Vincent Bugliosi
Interesting book. Not sure what to think. The author (who is also the defendants lawyer) obviously has his bias so I'd be curious for an objective perspective. Anyone know the story?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_the_Sea_Will_Tell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_the_Sea_Will_Tell)
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I'm slowly plowing through Game of Thrones. It's so depressing!
And in between I'm reading Cesar's Legions, and The Monuments Men.
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And in between I'm reading Cesar's Legions, and The Monuments Men.
"Monuments Men" is a great book.
The movie, however, was really lame...
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Another captivating Rachel Abbott book, Only the Innocent.
vinney
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'The Art of Stealing Time' by Katie MacAlister :emot_kiss:
(another Urban Fantasy that's perilously close to porn...) ;D
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'A Flash of Hex' by Jes Battis,
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I picked up a series at #2... that's the breaks when you preferentially shop at second-hand book stores. On the plus side, it's a good read, so I'll have to hunt down the other 4 books in the series.
The only annoying thing is that he occasionally spends way too many words describing Vancouver. That may be wonderful for people that KNOW Vancouver, but to me it's merely an annoying distraction. There's a delicate balance on 'setting the stage', and the characters should be the focus, not the scenery.
Jes is a member of the Vancouver LGBT community, so if you're a flaming homophobe you might want to pass on his book. It's not 'gay porn' (not even close), but two of the lead characters are hot for each other, and he plays a bit with gender issues during the book. ;)
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The Evil Beneath by A J Waines... Set in London... murders and mystery... what else...? It's a good read... a good mystery although I have read better...
vinney
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Half-way through with the last <SOB!> book of The Hollows series by Kim Harrison:
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I'd been trying to find it for a year, and finally broke down and did another big AbeBooks order. It showed up 2 weeks later, with a bunch more books to fill out various series I've mostly read. It apparently hasn't come out in paperback yet, I could only find a hardback for a few dollars.
Damn... I'm really gonna miss Ivy & Rachel. I've been following that series since 2004.
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http://seananmcguire.com/toby.php
This is a series I've been reading by Seanan McGuire. She also writes some cool Zombie fiction under the name of Mira Grant.
The first book in her zombie series is called FEED.
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Terry Brooks
New novel in the sequence (also on TV).
The Chronicles of Shannara...."The Elfstones of Shannara".
(If you are thinking of diving into the Chronicles, be advised at there are at least a dozen books by Brooks preceding this one, it will be an expensive endeavor).
:D
Love,
Liz
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Just got this book for a Christmas present... Am about to start reading it but it's pretty good shit it seems...
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Just got this book for a Christmas present... Am about to start reading it but it's pretty good shit it seems...
(http://i.imgur.com/A5oXDSl.jpg)
Except when you are a Zombie...then you are not "quite" dead.
:emot_laughing:
Love,
Liz
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Just got this book for a Christmas present... Am about to start reading it but it's pretty good shit it seems...
(http://i.imgur.com/A5oXDSl.jpg)
Except when you are a Zombie...then you are not "quite" dead.
:emot_laughing:
Love,
Liz
You're dead right there Liz... :emot_laughing:
:emot_kiss:
vinney
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Oh Vinney, Vinney.....what to do with you...??
Let me Count the ways.....
(1) Cover you with honey and let ants have at you??
(2) ......"Giggles".....
(3)......."Giggles More"......
(4).......Duct tape you to the yellow line on the highway......
(5)........ :emot_laughing:
(6)........ I can't think of anything right now, but give me awhile...... :D
Love Ya....
Liz
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Oh Vinney, Vinney.....what to do with you...??
Let me Count the ways.....
(1) Cover you with honey and let ants have at you??
(2) ......"Giggles".....
(3)......."Giggles More"......
(4).......Duct tape you to the yellow line on the highway......
(5)........ :emot_laughing:
(6)........ I can't think of anything right now, but give me awhile...... :D
Love Ya....
Liz
I can think of all sorts of things you could do to me... and I don't mean a horse whippin' in the stable either... :roll:
luv ya
vinney
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OOOOOOOOHHHHHH..........
There's a thought that I could go with...!!!!
Thanks for the idea............
Note to self...."go to tack shop and buy a bull whip"..... :D
Love,
Liz
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OOOOOOOOHHHHHH..........
There's a thought that I could go with...!!!!
Thanks for the idea............
Note to self...."go to tack shop and buy a bull whip"..... :D
Love,
Liz
It's a long time since I've been called a bull... thank you honey... :emot_laughing:
vinney
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OOOOOOOOHHHHHH..........
There's a thought that I could go with...!!!!
Thanks for the idea............
Note to self...."go to tack shop and buy a bull whip"..... :D
Love,
Liz
It's a long time since I've been called a bull... thank you honey... :emot_laughing:
vinney
You mean Steer, not Bull.....You might be fulla Bull, but you are a Steer...... :D
:emot_laughing:
Love,
Liz
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OOOOOOOOHHHHHH..........
There's a thought that I could go with...!!!!
Thanks for the idea............
Note to self...."go to tack shop and buy a bull whip"..... :D
Love,
Liz
It's a long time since I've been called a bull... thank you honey... :emot_laughing:
vinney
You mean Steer, not Bull.....You might be fulla Bull, but you are a Steer...... :D
:emot_laughing:
Love,
Liz
:emot_weird:
A steer Liz...? I sure ain't been castrated... and don't aim to be... and as for being full of bull... nope... no bull's gonna invade me... Now if you want some action... ;)
love
vinney
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LOL....If I want some action?.....No worries there, I have Katie or we have each other.
:D
Love,
Liz
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Just finished 'Side Jobs' by Jim Butcher. It's a trade pb with 11 short stories set in-between the Dresden Files novels, roughly. I'd already finished all of the Dresden Files books last year and loved 'em, so it was fun to revisit Jim's world with Harry Dresden again. They were all new stories to me; most had appeared in other compilations that I hadn't read.
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Just finished the Song of Fire and Ice series (The 5 books for The Game of Thrones).
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Two Books....Both really good, and both out of print.
Author is: Penina Keen Spinka.
The Books are: Picture Maker
Dream Weaver
They are about Native American's (from 800 years ago) The books are based on History and Fiction. Well worth reading.
Love,
Liz
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As a recently joined member, this is my first visit to this thread. I've just read 25 pages of previous postings, and I'm not really surprised to find so many well-read people here, but it was a pleasant fulfillment of my hopes and expectations.
Liz, I am a sympathetic reader of the history of the Americas before Columbus' arrival on the scene. One book along this line that impressed the hell out of me was Eduardo Galeano's Las Venas Abiertas de America Latina, which I read in Spanish, but I know his books are available in English as well. Translation of the Spanish title would be 'The Open Veins of Latin America,' although I'm not sure the English version would carry that exact title.
In the world of horsery, a book I enjoyed recently is The Horse, the Wheel and Language: How Bronze Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World, by David Anthony. The book digs into archeology and paleography going back five thousand years or so, looking for the roots of the proto-languages which evolved into the hundreds of languages and dialects that have been and are spoken across Europe and Asia today. The book has a lot to say about the role played by domesticated equids and wheeled carts in migrations throughout Eurasia from the area around the Black and Caspian Seas.
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Liz, I am a sympathetic reader of the history of the Americas before Columbus' arrival on the scene. One book along this line that impressed the hell out of me was Eduardo Galeano's Las Venas Abiertas de America Latina, which I read in Spanish, but I know his books are available in English as well. Translation of the Spanish title would be 'The Open Veins of Latin America,' although I'm not sure the English version would carry that exact title.
I read that book (in English) a couple of years ago, and I enjoyed it immensely. The English title was, indeed, "The Open Veins of Latin America." It's not without certain biases (though, to the author's credit, he makes no effort to hide them), it's wonderfully written, and the author is a highly engaging story-teller.
It's a nice complement to Bartolome de las Casas' books, which were written contemporaneously with the events described (de las Casas was an eyewitness to many of the depredations wrecked by the Spanish conquistadors).
Thanks for sharing!
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Every time I see de Las Casas mentioned I tell myself I have to check him out. Maybe now is the time. Thanks for bringing him up.
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Every time I see de Las Casas mentioned I tell myself I have to check him out. Maybe now is the time. Thanks for bringing him up.
I highly recommend him, but with a big caveat: Read critically. Though he was a firsthand witness to many of these events, he's a polemicist promoting a cause. Many of his assertions are highly suspect, he presents only one point of view, and his biases run through the whole narrative.
But read him nonetheless....
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Payback by Kimberley Chambers... just into the first few pages... will see how it goes from here...
vinney
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Immortal: why consciousness is not in the brain
By: Sergio Canavero MD
http://www.amazon.com/Immortal-Why-CONSCIOUSNESS-NOT-BRAIN/dp/1503085929
Dzogchen Teachings
Chögyal Namkhai Norbu
The Coffeeist Manifesto Learn How to Make Coffee and Espresso YOURSELF! - Steven Ward
The Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo
http://www.amazon.com/Zen-Teaching-Homeless-Kodo/dp/1614290482/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1455053231&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Zen+Teaching+of+Homeless+Kodo
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Sergio Canavero, the guy who says he will do a human brain transplant sometime next year. Well, that's certainly a fascinating project, and I say good luck to everyone involved. The idea that consciousness does not originate in the brain has been around for a while, at least as far back as William James' days as founding professor of the Harvard School of Psychology over a hundred years ago.
I enjoyed reading Julian Jaynes' The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, back in the 1960's I think it was. Since then the attempts to build a theory of consciousness have interested me off and on.
I remember some scenes from a British anthropological adventure to Papua, New Guinea back in the 70's, broadcast on PBS in a five-hour series under the title Ring of Fire (available from Netflix) in which the Dream Wanderer religion of a remote jungle tribe was explored at some length, and that seemed to partake of the Universal Consciousness world-view. The whole series was good entertainment, as well as a very stimulating look at how life goes in pre-industrial cultures.
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Wait... you mean it's all looping and interwoven? Each piece a part of a larger picture?
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like this?
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Threads like this put KB on the cutting edge of education. If you have a high school honors student in your family, you should slip him or her a link to this site. Think where I'd be now if I'd been reading this stuff decades ago.
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Picked up and finishing The Hollows series by Kim Harrison. It's urban fantasy about how society changes when the presence of mythical creatures is revealed. This occurs after a global pandemic virus spread initially through mutated tomatoes wiped out a good portion of the worlds population. The occurance is called The Turn. Vampires, witches, Weres, pixies, fairies, elves, even banshees come out into the open and basically save the mundane humans and society.
The protagonist is a witch.
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"Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front”
By Günter Koschorrek
It was a dark and bitter time.
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Ghosts of Manhattan, by George Mann
http://www.amazon.com/Ghosts-Manhattan-George-Mann/dp/1616141948/
Only part-way in, but so far it's got a steampunk/supernatural/Batman vibe going on - 1920s New York, but Britain still has an Empire, cars are steam-powered, there's a mob king-pin who may be an immortal, a vigilante with gadgets and no hesitation to kill, a beleaguered cop in between them, and a bunch of golems just showed up.
That sounds like a jumbled mess, but it works.
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I'm into the second book of the Dark Days series by Jocelynn Drake (Nightwalker was the first one). So far it's a good series, and I'm interested to see where she's taking it.
One of the comments at Goodreads calls the series a "dark urban fantasy" with a some romance elements. That's a close-enough description for me.
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Robert A. Heinlein: Stranger in a Strange Land. The complete uncut edition. God, what a dolt I was in high school, and what a timeless, amazing perspective on the human situation is this book.
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I didn't really start reading books until I got a kindle for a present 5 years ago. At first I didn't like it because of the cost of books. I'm a lil bit frugal. Then I discovered Bookbub.com They send out a daily email listings of the best deals on whatever platform you might read from. In my case Kindle-Amazon. I haven't paid for a book in six months. Free entertainment.
Right now I'm reading The Dangerous Edge of Things a crime/suspense/fiction. Just getting into it.
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Cuchulain of Muirthemne, by Lady Augusta Gregory: published 1927. This is a modern English compilation of ancient Gaelic legends from the days of spears and chariots. I guess this work is more popularly known in Ireland than here in the US. I would never have heard of it except it was commended by W. B. Yeats as an aside in the introduction to his collected works. I got the hardcover book, but it's available as an e-book. Wonderful stuff, if you are into warrior hero legends.
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"Downbelow Station" by C.J. Cherrhy.
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Robert A. Heinlein: Stranger in a Strange Land. The complete uncut edition. God, what a dolt I was in high school, and what a timeless, amazing perspective on the human situation is this book.
My big brother gave me the leather bound edition years ago. Uncut was so much better.
Currently I'm reading "The Princess Bride," the classic story of true love and high adventure, The Good Parts Version.
Aaron
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Slow Sex The Art and Craft of the Female Orgasm - Nicole Daedone .epub
Survival Chinese - How to Communicate Without Fuss or Fear Instantly! - 3rd Edition (2016)
Eat Fat, Get Thin Why the Fat We Eat Is the Key to Sustained Weight Loss and Vibrant Health by Mark Hyman
How to be Anonymous Online 2016 (ePub, Mobi)
The Way of Energy - Mastering the Chinese Art of Internal Strength with Chi Kung Exercise - Master Lam Kam-Chuen - Mantesh
I Ching - The Eranos Foundation - by: Rudolf Ritsema and Shantena Augusto Sabbadini
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Nowhere Girl by Ruth Dugdall... set in Luxembourg it tells the story of kidnap for a starter... Good read.
vinney
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I'm most of the way through the 'Dark Days' series by Jocelynn Drake. I like it.
I'm a little slow, at times. :D I *just* found out that there's a whole slew of comic books based on The Dresden Files. I'm busy googling in the background to find 'em all.
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Exclusion Zone... by J Hewitt... set in Chernobyl... a bit grim and bloody but a helluva good read...
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vinney
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I'm most of the way through the 'Dark Days' series by Jocelynn Drake. I like it.
I'm a little slow, at times. :D I *just* found out that there's a whole slew of comic books based on The Dresden Files. I'm busy googling in the background to find 'em all.
I started reading a Dresden File book at Christmas flying home from to Florida. I don't recall why I quit reading it. Will have to pick it back up.
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'Wee Free Men" Terry Pratchett
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I've been enjoying the work of John Michael Greer, books and blogs relating to the rotting foundations of the New World Order, global capitalism and the corporate-fascist state. You can get the feel of all this by reviewing his posts at http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2016/01/donald-trump-and-politics-of-resentment.html
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Reading "Black Horses For The King"
Written by Anne McCaffrey (Who is also the author of the series "Dragonriders of Pern").
Love,
Liz
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Twenty-eight and a half wishes by Denise Grover Swank...
vinney
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"Final Argument" by Tom Bucy
https://www.amazon.com/Final-Argument-Perpetrated-Stephanie-Subsequent-ebook/dp/B00SQI549K?ie=UTF8&keywords=final%20argument&qid=1462460889&ref_=sr_1_5&s=books&sr=1-5 (https://www.amazon.com/Final-Argument-Perpetrated-Stephanie-Subsequent-ebook/dp/B00SQI549K?ie=UTF8&keywords=final%20argument&qid=1462460889&ref_=sr_1_5&s=books&sr=1-5)
It's a counter to the book "And the Sea Will Tell" by Vincent Bugliosi
http://www.amazon.com/Sea-Will-Tell-Vincent-Bugliosi/dp/0393327965?ie=UTF8&keywords=and%20the%20sea%20will%20tell%20by%20vincent%20bugliosi&qid=1462460984&ref_=sr_1_1&s=books&sr=1-1 (http://www.amazon.com/Sea-Will-Tell-Vincent-Bugliosi/dp/0393327965?ie=UTF8&keywords=and%20the%20sea%20will%20tell%20by%20vincent%20bugliosi&qid=1462460984&ref_=sr_1_1&s=books&sr=1-1)
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Been trying to read a few books but due to busy life it's been taking me months.
Iron John: a Book about Men
by Robert Bly
Nordic Gods and Heroes
by Padraic Colum
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Just started 'Time Heals No Wounds' by Hendrik Falkenberg...
vinney
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Wizards First Rule, by Terry Goodkind.
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The Long Descent: A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age,
by John Michael Greer
I caught wind of peak oil around the same time I woke to the fact that we had a certifiable moron in the White House, which clued me in to big trouble brewing under the foundations of the delusion passing as western democracy. That led me to John Michael Greer, who is probably the weirdest intellectual hero as well as the straightest thinker I have come across in my long years of nosing around trying to dig out the truth, if there is any, about our human predicament.
Good druid that he is, Greer takes the long view of things, long as in sidereal. When you think in terms of saeculae saeculorum, that really puts things in perspective.
Thinking on that time scale brings to mind the views of the psychologist Rollo May, who classified human thought into rough categories of chicken shit through bullshit to elephant shit. When you contemplate the long run, that cuts through a lot of the tiny elements that feed our day-to-day streams of thought. We appreciate the deep currents more, and learn to disregard the tiny ripples on the surface.
We live in the ripples, and we are occasionally battered by the storms that take a few days to blow by. The unlucky ones are those who live most of a lifetime in turmoil. Sadly, that happens a lot, and for them, death may come as a relief. Moments, hours, days, decades, maybe a century is the time span which we can wrap our attention around.
When we look to recent history for guidance as to what we can expect over the next year or decade, even the experts get fooled on a regular basis. Who knows what another year will bring? Who knew a year ago that Trump would snatch the nomination from the Republican placeholders? Who knew in 2013 that Germany would call back their gold from 'safekeeping' at Fort Knox, and that the US would say you can't have it, dunno when, won't say why? In 2007 with the Dow over 14,000, that 18 months later it would be be down by half? That banks would charge you for holding your money instead of paying you interest? Or just take your money, 'legally,' because they need it?
So we see lots of things everybody thought would never happen, they happen, and keep happening. Something ain't right here!
John Michael Greer keeps coming up with lessons on how the ripples play out against the perspective of the deep currents. One of his best posts is up on his weekly blog right now at http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/
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Right now my 4 year old and I are just about to start Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. I love reading with her :D
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The Holy Roman Empire by Friedrich Keer
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The Forgotten Girls by Alexa Steele... Good read so far... and it'll get better...!
vinney
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Succubi are Forever by Jill Myles (aka Jessica Clare and Jessica Sims)
Intro to chapter 5:
"Come on. What woman hasn't had to wrap her lips around something unsavory and sell it to the crowd?" -- Memoirs of a Flesh Peddler, by Remy Summore
Unlike her earlier Succubi novels, this one took a LONG time to get their clothes off (well, in any DETAIL, that is!). :emot_kiss:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2923539.Jill_Myles
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I'm done, that's it, the series is over. Unfortunately Jill's publisher didn't want to print any more of that group since the sales weren't high enough. Jill still has stories in her head about that world, and I'm dismayed that financial circumstances keep her from writing them. She had to self-publish Succubui are Forever to get it printed. That's got to be a gruesome ordeal, and a true labor of love.
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From 1933.
Author: Otis Adelbert Kline
"The Swordsman Of Mars"
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Kline was also a notable assistance in writing the original "Conan Books"
of Robert E. Howard (as Kline was Howards Literary Agent).
Love,
Liz
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I'd read the rest of that series years ago, and finally found the one missing book with Abe. It's REALLY, REALLY hard to find some of these authors when they use off-brand publishers.
I loved this book... the action was decently paced, the scenes well played, the characters fleshed-out enough to seem real. It ended too soon for me, somewhere between a novella and a short book in length.
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My brother-in-law has a lot of books. Just came across Clan Of The Cavebear a couple weeks ago. I'm finding it very interesting.
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My brother-in-law has a lot of books. Just came across Clan Of The Cavebear a couple weeks ago. I'm finding it very interesting.
Just wait till you dig into the entire series.....
six very long volumes
Love,
Liz
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Just wait till you dig into the entire series.....
six very long volumes
Love,
Liz
What? I thought it was just one book. I'm not good at finishing series because they never hold my interest, or I don't like where the author takes it in the third. Usually they'll hold true for the 2nd book but then go off course.
Ugh, this first book is already long. At the pace I read it'll take me 3 years to read it. I like to read a couple of books at a time.
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Yep, you were right.
The Clan of the Cave Bear, The Valley of Horses, The Mammoth Hunters, The Plains of Passage, The Shelters of Stone. The Land of Painted Caves
I don't even think he has these in paperback or if he ever read them. Will have to get into his kindle account.
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WAS reading: Mark Henry, "Happy Hour of the Damned"
Too many adjectives, too much flowery description, and TOO MANY DAMNED FOOTNOTES.
39 pages in, I put it down and decided to grab something else. I also crossed his OTHER book off of my "find it later" list, based on this example.
Christ on a crutch, one page had 3 different footnotes from the earlier text on the page. That's a bit much, kiddo. I might tolerate it from Terry Pratchett, but he's a GOOD author that keeps the story flowing. At page 39 of THIS beast, he still hadn't gotten the story out of the gate. There were footnotes on every page, or thereabouts. WAY too distracting, Mark. It'd lost it's charm by page 20.
There's too many good books out there to waste my time on something that's impossible to read. NEXT!!
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The Hope That Kills...by Ed James. A detective novel set in an area of East London that I know from the past... Pretty good read so far...
vinney
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Laura Ann Gilman, 'Freefall' (urban fantasy, trade pb from Luna)
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It's #5 of 6 in Laura's 'Retrievers' series, Abe finally came through for me. Finding off-brand trade paperbacks is frequently hard. I'd read the others previously, and loved this one. It's fast-paced, full of action with good visualization. As an author, Laura reminds me strongly of Kim Harrison. Highly recommended series, if you're into the genre.
Now that I'm done with *that* series, I'm starting on Laura's 'Paranormal Scene Investigations' 4-book series in the same 'Cosa Nostradamus' universe. AbeBooks delivered last month. :D
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Angel, a murder mystery and number four in a series by L J Ross. Good read.
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Sales strategy books. B O R I N G
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The girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins...
vinney
I am reading The Girl On the Train now. Wife reads mostly fiction while I mostly read non-fiction but when we think the other may like a certain book, we put it in our reading queue.
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I think its been made into a film now Watcher...
And I've just started reading 'Blood on the Tracks' by Barbara Nickless... Only about four pages in but it has the feel of a good read...
vinney
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The girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins...
vinney
I am reading The Girl On the Train now. Wife reads mostly fiction while I mostly read non-fiction but when we think the other may like a certain book, we put it in our reading queue.
I loved Girl On The Train. It's one of those books I couldn't put down. I won't watch the movie, though I didn't know it was made into one.
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I decided to pick up a "Classic Novel" to read.......so.....
I'm re-reading (and I haven't read it since school)......"Treasure Island".
Love,
Liz
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I'm in the process of re-reading Tom Clancy's books (the ones he actually wrote and not the ones with characters he created but written by somebody else). Reading them in order. Just finished The Sum of All Fears.
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Got Ghosts? - The Ghost Buster Gals
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Working on a three volume set of books by Patrick Rothfuss
(1) The Name Of The Wind.
(2) The Wise Mans Fear.
(3) The Slow Regard Of Silent Things.
Excellent series about a magician who was of all things evil, but finds himself in a position to be a hero. The third book is told by a woman who observed everything in the first two books and lives underground (under the castle in a maze of tunnels).
It's an incredible twist in the story of the first two books.
Love,
Liz
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I've started reading another novel by an author I have not read before (nor even heard of) ... It's called "Evelyn, After" by Victoria Helen Stone... Seems a pretty good opening chapter which augurs well for the rest of the book...
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East of Eden by John Steinbeck.
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East of Eden by John Steinbeck.
Classic Book..........
Love,
Liz
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I just started Eileen Wilks' "World of the Lupi" series, and I'm already in love...
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81617.Tempting_Danger
... wow, I sucked down the first book in the series in 2 1/2 evenings after work, only a few hours per night. Sadly, none of my favorite specialty sellers has ALL of the books in the series; I only have about 2/3rds of the books so far. Hopefully it won't be too jarring if I can find them later.
Those of you that enjoy Kim Harrison or Jim Butcher will probably like Eileen.
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"Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut. A short story about the surrender of the mind we are witnessing in America today. Perhaps the greatest piece of postmodern fiction I've ever read...
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Murder at the Lighthouse... by Frances Evesham... That's it, a murder story...
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Something in the Woods is Taking People
by Stephen Young
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Brass in Pocket by Stephen Puleston - a British crime story...
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"Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven" John Elliott Gardiner
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I'm new here and love to read. Can anyone suggest a good series. I liked fifty shades and the crossover series.
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I'm new here and love to read. Can anyone suggest a good series. I liked fifty shades and the crossover series.
That depends what you like. If you want something 'similar' to 50 shades... try KitKat's The Weekend in the stories section. It involves a girl rather than a woman, but the dominance factor is there. You might like it.
Also, every time you read a story, you should give the author a woo and a comment - it's just good manners, since we don't get paid for this.
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Black Edelweiss: A Memoir of Combat and Conscience by a Soldier of the Waffen-SS
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Homeland - John Jakes
Just started. I loaded it on my father's kindle and it seemed like an interesting read so I put it on mine.
Also currently reading Jean Auel series that my brother in law had laying around. Long books and lots in the series. Taking a bread from it. I love it though
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Thanks for doing this Katie...
Deep Sleepers... by Adrian Wiles... not the best read but it has some gripping sections...
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I just finished The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver. This is the second book by this author I've read, the first being The Poisonwood Bible.
The book follows the life of a young man who lived in both Mexico and the United States. His story follows that of the Bonus Army. post WWI, to his friendship with Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and Leon Trotsky. After the war he settled in the United States and becomes a popular author, until his past association with communists destroys his life at the young age of 34.
I found that this book details both the greatest highs of the American experience and its lowest low. The red scare and the witch hunts that is a great stain upon our nations history. Definitely worth a read.
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I just finished The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver. This is the second book by this author I've read, the first being The Poisonwood Bible.
The book follows the life of a young man who lived in both Mexico and the United States. His story follows that of the Bonus Army. post WWI, to his friendship with Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and Leon Trotsky. After the war he settled in the United States and becomes a popular author, until his past association with communists destroys his life at the young age of 34.
I found that this book details both the greatest highs of the American experience and its lowest low. The red scare and the witch hunts that is a great stain upon our nations history. Definitely worth a read.
Thanks for the recommendation!
I've read several of her novels -- Poisonwood Bible, Animal Dreams, Pigs in Heaven -- and I look forward to reading this one.
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I LOVED Poisonwood Bible. It had a rare sense of humor. I think I'll find my copy and read it again.
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I LOVED Poisonwood Bible. It had a rare sense of humor. I think I'll find my copy and read it again.
That one was my favorite.
I liked the way she portrayed the husband, a Baptist in Africa. A less talented writer would have made him into a caricature, mocking and belittling him for his beliefs, and his actions based on his beliefs. Kingsolver never does that. Though she does portray him as misguided, she never condescends, and never resorts to mockery.
My favorite character was the daughter Leah. What a spitfire! She's possibly even more dogmatic than her father, but she's a full-blown three-dimensional character, with heart, soul, and brains. She struck me as someone I'd enjoy hanging out with in real life.
You should also check out "Animal Dreams," a story about a woman who returns to her hometown somewhere in the Southwest to care for her father who's suffering from Alzheimer's. The two main characters are fascinating, and the novel is rich in both Spanish and Native American culture.
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I shall MissB. I think it's time for a trip to the library.
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I'm a HUGE fan of Jim Butcher's 'Dresden Files' series, so I figured I'd dig in and get his earlier 'Codex Alera' series. Read the first 4 of 6 and they're pretty good, but not up to 'Dresden' par.
Jim's working on a *NEW* Harry Dresden book, as of now titled 'Peace Talks'!
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My own freaking stories over and over and over until I can finally finish them! I mean jesus, a girl can't orgasm all day! It's exhausting!
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I decided to go back to the book shelves and just grab any book......
Ended up with Richard Mason's Novel "The World Of Suzie Wong".
Old book, but very good, better than the movie.
Love,
Liz
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I just re-read Stalin: In the Court of the Red Czar.
It is a very well written biography and shows a lot of insight into the Soviet regime of the time.
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Just starting to read Descent by Kristina Stanley... hope its better than the book I just gave up on -Never Again So Close... couldn't get on with that one...
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One of my favorite historical fiction writers wrote a history. I'm finding solace in reading it.
Bernard Cornwell,
"Waterloo The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Theee Battles".
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Stalked In The Woods by Stephen Young
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Born In Fire by Nora Roberts
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Belinda by Anne Rampling (Anne Rice)
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48 HOURS... by J Jackson Bentley. Best crime thriller I've rad in a long time... I want to get to the end of the book - but also I want the story to continue on...
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The Camp of the Saints
Written in the early seventies, coming true today.
"The migrants make their way north, having no desire to assimilate to French culture, but continuing to demand a First World standard of living, even as they flout laws, do not produce, and murder French citizens."
:facepalm:
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The first book of a three book series by Jaclyn Dolamore:
1. The Sorcerer's Concubine.
2. The Sorcerer's Wife.
3. The Sorcerer's Equal.
Love,
Liz
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The Nightside series by Simon R. Green, currently 12 books in all.
Imagine Harry Dresden authored by Doug Adams, and you'd be fairly close. :emot_laughing:
edit: I've finished the 8th book in the series, and enjoyed it enough that I ordered the other 4, as well as filling out another similar series by Simon R. Green that I hadn't started reading yet (was missing the first 4 books).
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Just finished Valley Of The Horses by Jean Auel. A story set in prehistoric time that follows a young girl of the Cro-Magnon people, that is orphaned and raised by Neanderthals (Clan Of The Cave Bear - book 1). In Valley Of The Horses (which is book 2) she sets out to find her own people. It is fascinating reading how she survives on her own and the struggles a person faces during this time.
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Just finished The Hunger Within by J Hewitt... a story based in Ireland during the troubles...
Now starting My Sister and Other Liars by Ruth Dugdall... Looks promising...
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The Cocktail Waitress by James M Cain
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Just finished Valley Of The Horses by Jean Auel. A story set in prehistoric time that follows a young girl of the Cro-Magnon people, that is orphaned and raised by Neanderthals (Clan Of The Cave Bear - book 1). In Valley Of The Horses (which is book 2) she sets out to find her own people. It is fascinating reading how she survives on her own and the struggles a person faces during this time.
You need to read a two book set by Penina Keen Spinka (yes that's her name).
The first book is: Picture Maker.
The Second is: Dream Weaver
You won't be disappointed. They are both fantastic books.
Love,
Liz
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Just finished Valley Of The Horses by Jean Auel. A story set in prehistoric time that follows a young girl of the Cro-Magnon people, that is orphaned and raised by Neanderthals (Clan Of The Cave Bear - book 1). In Valley Of The Horses (which is book 2) she sets out to find her own people. It is fascinating reading how she survives on her own and the struggles a person faces during this time.
You need to read a two book set by Penina Keen Spinka (yes that's her name).
The first book is: Picture Maker.
The Second is: Dream Weaver
You won't be disappointed. They are both fantastic books.
Love,
Liz
Thank you Liz! Just ordered book 1 on Amazon in hardcover. They don't have it on Kindle, which fits in my purse. :(
My brother in law has the remainder of the books of Auel, some in kindle format, some in paperback. Paperback might be tough with as small as the print is. I need a short break anyways from it anyways. Was looking for something to read. This will be perfect.
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" Killers of The Flower Moon "
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Remorseless... a British Crime thriller by Will Patching... A deadly story... but a terrific read...
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" Killers of The Flower Moon "
Good choice!
I read that about a month ago, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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8) Dan Brown,s new book. Good so far.
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I just started a book by another Dan,
"The Templars, The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors"
He takes a look at this mysterious group from their start up to the wiping out of the order. Just got past the introduction, but it should be very interesting as there's still so much not known about the Templars.
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Dragonsworn by Sherrilyn Kenyon
The beginning was terrible. Too many characters introduced too fast so I could not remember who they all were during the dialogue. By chapter 3 I finally got a sense of who was who, which made it possible to follow what was going on.
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I've given up on it. No plot. And no point.
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" Killers of The Flower Moon "
Good choice!
I read that about a month ago, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I've written it down. Next trip to the library I'll see if they have it.
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1969 by Rob Kirkpatrick. Since I was on an all expense paid vacation to a far off land, courtesy of Uncle Sam, for most of 1969, I thought it would be interesting to read about things that had happened while I was away. It was pretty interesting until I got to the part on how the Chicago Cubs melted in September and was upstaged by the Miracle Mets.
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:o Dan Browns new book "Origin" good so far.
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I've finished "Killers of the Flower Moon", and then watched "FBI Story" for good measure. The book was excellent, and it was interesting to see the inaccuracies in the 1959 film.
I've also just finished reading "Parasite" by Mira Grant. Good read! I can't wait to read the rest of the series.
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:emot_101010: Dan Browns new book ( Origin)
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The Peloponnesian Wars by Thucydides
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"The Accidental President," by A.J. Baime, subtitled "Harry S. Truman and the Four Months that Changed the World."
When running for his fourth term, FDR selected Truman, a long-serving senator from Missouri, as his running-mate. FDR was inaugurated on January 20, 1945, and died suddenly less than three months later. When Truman succeeded to the presidency, the war in Europe was grinding to its close, but the war in the Pacific was still raging, and the Cold War was in its infancy stages. And FDR left Truman woefully uninformed and unprepared for the presidency -- including failing to tell him about a certain top secret project underway.
It's fascinating to read about how Truman, thrown into the maelstrom, was able to rise to meet the many challenges.
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Dodge City by Tom Clavin. The author relates both the myths and facts of Wyatt Earp and his brothers, Bat Masterson and his brothers, and Doc Holliday. I did learn that after Bat Masterson left the West and came to New York City at the request of Teddy Roosevelt, he did go into the newspaper business and became a celebrated sports reporter for one of the NYC papers. He took a fledgling reporter by the name of Damon Runyon under his wings and years later, when Runyon wrote Guys and Dolls, he named his main character, Sky Masterson, after Bat Masterson.
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Coyote Blue by Christopher Moore.
I read a few of Christopher Moore's novels. I enjoy the quirky humor he imbibes his stories with.
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8) Stephen Kings new book.
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I just started re-reading Raymond Chandler's Farewell, My Lovely, but am considering switching over to Time's Arrow, by Martin Amis. The Chandler is Phillip Marlowe - hardboiled detective fiction, and the Amis is allegorical scifi, sort of, for anyone unfamiliar with these.
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Then she ran... by Charlie Gallagher. Just started it, the first chapters flow nicely and have the makings of a good read...
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https://www.amazon.com/My-Sister-Milly/dp/B073C5KZT3 (US)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/My-Sister-Milly-Gemma-Dowler/product-reviews/1405927577 (UK)
Quick snyopsis: A predator snatches a teenage girl of the street in broad daylight. He kills his victim, Amanda 'Milly' Dowler and moves on. This is the harrowing tale of her family - their struggle to make their voices heard in the aftermath of her murder. This story is of a normal family -- how they were betrayed by the police and the English court system. Their struggle for answers goes from day to day to month to month to year to year in the search for the truth, and more importantly, answers.
The book was written in collaboration by the Dowler family, but mainly Gemma, the long suffering sister of the victim Milly. I have no idea how the Dowlers got the strength to continue after what happened, but what I do know is that Milly should be known by everyone, no matter where they are in the world.
I couldn't put it down - it, to me, was and is a must read, but I can't help but wonder what Milly could have been had that monster not met her that fateful day.
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8) Reading Stephen Kings new book. " The Outsider"
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Appropriately.........I'm reading (or re-reading) 1984 by George Orwell.
:D
Love,
Liz
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Now reading "Payback" by Kimberley Chambers. It seems loosely based on the Kray Twins... or at least that was the way it appeared in the beginning. The main character is a brute called... Vinny… who has a son Little Vinny.
I confess, here and now, those Vinny characters bear no resemblance to this, the real, and only, vinney…
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Saberthorn
by Sheri-Lynn Marean
A new author (first book March 2016). The book caught my eye on the Kindle page. 50 Reviews with 86% a 5 star.
Dragon/Fantasy. I like it so far. I haven't read a fantasy book in ages.
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Day of the Triffids, by John Wyndham
The starting context is getting a little dated, especially for non-Brits, but there are still aspects that ring chillingly true (such as the middle-class religious fundamentalist colony), and I really shouldn't have been reading it just before I fell asleep.
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I Spy, I Saw Her Die by Ian C.P.Irvine.
Quite a challenging and absorbing tale... nearly half way through it and am rivetted to it...
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Don't Laugh........
But I found a couple of copies of "Prince Valiant" (The Sunday comics one).
Bought volumes 1 thru 6........Even though they are comics, they are really good.
Love,
Liz
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“The Only Pirate at the Party” by Lindsey Sterling. Her autobiography. I love her performances, she is a great role model and inspirational.
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JANE EYRE by Charlotte Bronte
Not an easy read, considering the time it was written and the employment of the language, but the moving story and the wonderful insights of the author/narrator make up for the
difficulty translating the material.
Not my usual cup of tea, but then I don't read a book just to say I am reading a book, not like some people I know who move from one to another like they are turning the pages of magazines.
A book has to say something to me, and this one started speaking to me from the first page.
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I love our library!
I just got "likeWar" The weponization of Social Media.
Found an author I like for his reworking of history. Harry Turtledove. Just finished" "Joe Steele" It is a what if we had a president starting in about 1933 who was like Joe Stallin?
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I'd lost track of Kim Harrison's 'The Hollows' series (paranormal / urban fantasy), and didn't know she'd released another book in the series last year, The Turn. It goes all the way back to the beginning of the story in the late '60s and explains how The Turn happened.
(https://i.imgur.com/tVERnQ1.jpg)
Looking at her website, she's working on a new book in the series titled 'American Demon'.
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Longstone by LJ Ross a murder mystery set in the Northeast of England. It's the tenth in a series of excellent police tales in the same area. LJ Ross has proved herself an excellent author.
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Michelle Obamas'
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THE HISTORY OF JIHAD. from Muhammad to lSIS.
Just started. According to author Robert Spencer, From the beginning it has always been the “One True Religion “ to its believers and everyone else must submit or die. So it looks like we non-believers will never win or even tie.
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Got it from my dad..... "IS PARIS BURNING"..
WW2 book about the Germans evacuating Paris while the American's are entering Paris.
Love,
Liz
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The Killer Collective by Barry Eisler... Only just started reading it and pleased to say it looks a promising read...
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The Aerodynamics of Pork - Patrick Gale - he is a great gay author who knows how to produce a story that is redolent to gay or straight readers. look for him.
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At moment reading "Kiln People" by David Brin.
And while driving, audio booking the entire Spellsinger series by Alan Dean Foster. Mid book 4.
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Finishing Assassination of Margaret Thatcher by Hillary Mantel and have the her Wolf Hall novel in line.
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I just finished reading "The Harrad Experiment " by Robert Rimmer.
Pretty good book even if it is something like 50+ years old.
They even made it into a movie.
Love,
Liz
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The Infirmary by L J Ross. A good detective story as always from this author...
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The Shut-in by James Patterson.
I can buy the rare disease that keeps the heroine confined to her apartment, and the drone technology that allows her to 'see' the outside world.
After that it breaks down rather badly. The plot relies on things that stretch credulity to the breaking point. If you can get past that, it's a well written story and quite enjoyable.
Remmy
PS: Moving on the The Reckoning by John Grisham.
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The Havoc Machine by Steven Harper, the 4th novel of The Clockwork Empire
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It's pretty good... I started the series backwards, but that's OK 'cos this one is a standalone novel of the 4. I read the first half in the jury selection waiting room, and I'm finishing it this evening.
https://www.goodreads.com/series/65880-clockwork-empire
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Girl Most Likely... by Max Allan Collins... A bit of a disappointment... I'm thinking of ditching that in favour of my next read I found on Amazon... Colette by Abigail Summer... It's romantic transgender fiction … set in Guernsey (Channel Isles). Looking forward to reading that one...
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A suspense novel called Every Secret Thing by Laura Lippman, best known for her series featuring Baltimore PI Tess Monaghan. This is a standalone book published in 2003.
The prologue grabbed my attention as it described an event that had taken place seven years ago.
Then it's back to the present day and more questions as she describes the events taking place in the lives of the central characters. I'm enjoying it immensely so far.
Remmy
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May 3 is National Paranormal Day and that is the perfect intro to the book I just started. It's called On Borrowed Time and was written by David Rosenfelt.
It's an audio book and the first half hour was mundane but interesting as the main character described a little about his life, how he met his girlfriend, and a visit to her parents' house where he proposes to her.
The next half hour got very strange very quickly. There are five more CDs and I can't wait to listen to the rest of it.
** Edit: Having finished the book, please note that there are no paranormal or supernatural events in the story. It's a super-villain conspiracy thriller.
It is a good well written story and I enjoyed it, but I didn't want lead fans of the supernatural astray. **
Remmy
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The Moor by L.J.Ross, a superb double murder investigation surrounding a circus on Newcastle's Town Moor.
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Eat. Move. Sleep.
Because my stepdaughter is. To get in her mindset and support her in her mission to better her health.
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GOOD ME BAD ME by Ali Land
Been a long time since a book grabbed me by the neck from the first page and didn't let go.
Also been a long time since I've read a book where the Present Tense (which has become an obsession rather than a trend) is actually appropriate.
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I bought my sons a number of literary classics. With a few exceptions, they were not read. So I’m working my way through a stack of books. Which I enjoy.
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I’ve had a list of books on the refrigerator for years. My offer to the offspring is to read a book on the list, and provide an oral book report. I’ll pay you $50. One child has refused to read anything. The other has read about 15. I think I would have read them all. In a month or less.
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I read a book that was gifted to me during my hospital stay. It was from lDans coworke that loves bourbon
https://www.amazon.com/Bourbon-Curious-Simple-Tasting-Drinker/dp/0760347409
It was interesting to read and but I already knew most of what was said. But for the novice or the person just beginning to enjoy bourbon I think it would be a perfect book. The main thing I took away from it was the nose and tasting notes a few tips.
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Fifty Shades of Gray
I had to see what so many women love about it. About a hundred pages in wondering who in the hell wrote this piece of shit. I keep waiting for the writing to get better, for something to happen, but all I am left with is this feeling that it is extremely easy to trick some people into liking something.
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I think I got to page three or four before the bad writing gave me a headache.
Currently reading "Sophistication"
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B07KYVD3YT/ref=ya_aw_dod_pi?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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The Silent Patient by Alex Michaleides. New author and looks promising. Whodunit.
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A Catcher in the Rye. J. D. Salinger’s book that was an alleged favorite of Oswald, Chapman, and Hinkley. Haven’t read it in 40 years. Has an eerie way creeping up on you. Depressing as hell.
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The Innocent Man... John Grisham... good read...
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Just finished Where the Forest Meets the Stars.
A trio of characters. A 20 something girl, a 20 something guy, a child. All with their own troubles. It developed nicely throughout. The child helping to guide the relationships and other things through quarks. ;)
I loved the dialogue. I cried a few times. I loved the book. I can see it becoming a movie. Or as Dan says a chick flick.
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Imposter by L J Ross - the first of a new series of series of books by a great author this one about a police profiler. Great read so far.
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Dan had read one of his favorite authors, so when he was done, I picked it up.
Just finished The Guardians (https://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/aclk?sa=L&ai=DChcSEwjAk6H03pfmAhVnIK0GHT8TBG8YABAMGgJwdg&ohost=www.google.com&cid=CAESQeD25pu_yxuTxgLS34j7aAcwW0fpaoK6SylyKVK4OdThDKxqvA-WXNRiMz3sFU2AdSUi2GysaVIKyHI71jWJ3tyE&sig=AOD64_15S5uym1dSWk4oPAdMFm-AIHnAGw&ctype=46&q=&ved=2ahUKEwiu1pX03pfmAhWN_J4KHUg5CMgQ9aACegQIExBB&adurl=) by John Grisham
Why do I suddenly feel the need to make a donation to an innocence project organization.
A little slow at the beginning, but so worth it. I teared up a few times. I'm an easy crier though.
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Long Gone by Paul Pilkington... about a Transport police detective tracing a missing young woman... Good read so far...
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The Floating Book by M R Lovric
Set in 15th century Venice. Extremely lush and poetic writing.
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Stephen King's Doctor Sleep
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I have a bit of a backlog going in my book collection. I just finished Soul Music by Terry Pratchett, and am now working on Armageddon Outta Here by Derek Landy, then move onto Bedlam by the same, then The Essential Sandman Volume 5 by Neil Gaiman.
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Just got into the newest book from a favorite author, Nevada Barr. A former Park Ranger with the U. S. Forest Service, she's written many fun books about Anna Pigeon, a Park Ranger who moves around to several National Parks.
The new book, "What Rose Forgot" is a big departure and is deeply chilling. Rose wakes up outside in just a hospital gown and totally confused about who she is, what's going on and soon finds herself picked up and back in a locked memory care unit.
The author lets us know soon into the book that Rose is being drugged and it seems family is involved. She plots another escape and begins to fight to take back her memory and her life.
I finding the book so disturbing, maybe because I'm old too. A friend is now dealing with his mother starting to loose her memory and we have a neighbor who's wife is now in long term care. She's forgotten her husband and even how to stand up...just sits in a wheel chair.
Nevada Barr, who delighted me with her depictions of National Parks while spinning a tale of adventure, now brings to her pages the horrors old people may have to face...and indeed many are along with their family's.
I've just started the book, but I'll give it four stars.
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I finding the book so disturbing, maybe because I'm old too. A friend is now dealing with his mother starting to loose her memory and we have a neighbor who's wife is now in long term care. She's forgotten her husband and even how to stand up...just sits in a wheel chair.
My aunt died of early onset Alzheimer’s at the ripe old age (not) of 58. We all watched in horror as she lost her faculties one at a time. Then she couldn’t recognize her own children, then finally, her husband of 37 years. He visited her every day, swearing somehow that she was still cognizant deep inside. So difficult to watch.
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I finding the book so disturbing, maybe because I'm old too. A friend is now dealing with his mother starting to loose her memory and we have a neighbor who's wife is now in long term care. She's forgotten her husband and even how to stand up...just sits in a wheel chair.
My aunt died of early onset Alzheimer’s at the ripe old age (not) of 58. We all watched in horror as she lost her faculties one at a time. Then she couldn’t recognize her own children, then finally, her husband of 37 years. He visited her every day, swearing somehow that she was still cognizant deep inside. So difficult to watch.
Hugs to you both. It's a sad thing to happen to someone. And very difficult to be a loved one of these sweet souls.
Currently reading another of Dan's books. Daniel Silva's "The New Girl"
I'm having a tough time putting it down. Spy stuff, which isn't my normal genre.
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Just finished reading "The Authorized Roy Orbison" a superb history of the singer written by those who knew him best, his sons Roy Jnr, Wesley and Alex Orbison. It tells of the highs and lows of his life and career, the loss of his first wife Claudette in a motorbike accident and then the devastating fire that claimed the lives of two sons, Tony and Roy DeWayne.
My read of the year so far.
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Relic
SciFi by Alan Dean Foster
Set in the very far future. Mankind had built and lost several galactic empires until one of the inevitable and recurring ‘dust ups’ led to an engineered plague getting out of control.
Aliens find the last surviving human on one of the many dead human planets and decide our species is worth saving. They obviously never heard of Trump.
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The Last Days of August.
True story about the death of porn actress August Ames that made a comment on Twitter about not wanting to work with a gay male. She was lambasted on Twitter. Within a week she committed suicide.
It delves into the interactions of porn actresses, actors, producers.
It's sad to read.
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The Woolgrowers Companion
Fiction/mystery
A young woman living on the family sheep farm in Australia. Having lived out on a property this is as close as it gets. I love the way the book reads, the pace. The people, and the casual exploitation of local indigenous people. Plus the advice of the ‘Woolgrowers Companion’.
‘The Burnt Country ‘is the follow up by the same author.
Where the Crawdads Sing
Fiction/ murder mystery.
A young girl brings herself up in the coastal Bayou country of the USA. A life story woven around the love of wildlife , with a murder tossed in.
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Darkness on the Fens by Joy Ellis...Murder maniac on the loose... too many actual characters for my liking but still a gripping story...
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Okay, so I'm starting to chew through my backlog at the moment. (It's not very long, but I'm not the world's fastest reader, and I have Munchkin to deal with.) Right now, I have "Armageddon Outta Here" by Derek Landy by my bedside table. It's a short story anthology, based in the Skulduggery Pleasant universe. (Yes, I'm a 35-year-old male reading supernatural young adult fiction and writing supernatural/sci-fi very adult fiction. As you can guess, I am not worried about what people think of me.) Fortunately I have plenty of blood and plasma donations lined up, so I can chew through a bit more than I would just from five minutes a night before sleepytimes.
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The Institute by Stephen King, his latest
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Recently came across a copy of the original Lolita. I was surprised how much it relied on innuendo and reading between the lines.
I don't want to give anything away that could be considered a spoiler but one thing that was revealed about Dolores cracked me up.
The movie made from the novel was released in 1962 and one of my news feeds reported the obituary of the title character played by Sue Lyon, who was 14 at the time. She died over the weekend, at the age of 73.
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Recently came across a copy of the original Lolita. I was surprised how much it relied on innuendo and reading between the lines.
I don't want to give anything away that could be considered a spoiler but one thing that was revealed about Delores cracked me up.
The movie made from the novel was released in 1962 and one of my news feeds reported the obituary of the title character played by Sue Lyon, who was 14 at the time. She died over the weekend, at the age of 73.
I read that. Remember Humbert (I think I fucked up his name) is not very reliable, so you have to remember that everything is tinted rose.
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Recently came across a copy of the original Lolita. I was surprised how much it relied on innuendo and reading between the lines.
I don't want to give anything away that could be considered a spoiler but one thing that was revealed about Delores cracked me up.
The movie made from the novel was released in 1962 and one of my news feeds reported the obituary of the title character played by Sue Lyon, who was 14 at the time. She died over the weekend, at the age of 73.
I read that. Remember Humbert (I think I fucked up his name) is not very reliable, so you have to remember that everything is tinted rose.
No, you got it right. First name Humbert, last name Humbert.
Apropos of nothing, I knew a kid in high school named Alan Allen.
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:o I am reading " The Family" by Jeff Sharlet It is also a Netflix Documentary.
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"A Field Guide to Mesozoic Birds and Other Winged Dinosaurs" by Matthew P Martyniuk
It's fascinating...
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Just started reading "When I was You" by Minka Kent... an intriguing mystery story that is growing on me with each page turned...
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Read "I Found You" during the drive to and from Niagara Falls.
It's a chick book, boys. No need to read further.
I really enjoyed it. Lisa Jewell is a very good storyteller. Half way through I found myself comparing it to "A Girl On A Train", but it's not. It is suspenseful and kept me guessing throughout. And it turns out my guesses were not correct.
Don't want to give too much away, but.....
A single woman of 3 living on a seaside beach discovers a man on the beach one day. He has lost his memory and doesn't know who he is or where he is from. 60 miles away, a newly married woman's husband of 3 weeks disappears. The story bounces back and forth between them, and also to the same seaside town except 20 years in the past.
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I have found this book very helpful. For others that are suffering like me you can purchase it at Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1594743061/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_Op4mEbWHPSHX1
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The second author is a reverend? LOL
Blessed be those who are blessed.
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Now we know why our Jules is always so happy. As a "small" guy, I never thought the the "big boys" had such problems they needed a book. :emot_laughing:
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The real story is, Toe lent it to Dan. Dan had no reason to read the book, let alone have it in his possession.
I should Boo him for even posting that.
Now we know why our Jules is always so happy.
mmm-hmmm, Mr smarty pants
Jules does have a smile on her face much of the time. Partly because, though Mr Durango Dan is not well endowed in the penile department, he is highly skilled in methods in which to use it.
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Now we know why our Jules is always so happy.
mmm-hmmm, Mr smarty pants
Jules does have a smile on her face much of the time. Partly because, though Mr Durango Dan is not well endowed in the penile department, he is highly skilled in methods in which to use it.
I stand corrected. :facepalm: In my weak defense, it was such an easy "cheap shot". Being the perv I am, I was unable to resist. :emot_kiss:
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he is highly skilled in methods in which to use it.
I'm sorry love, but the first thought I had was him using it to turn the pages of the book. :emot_laughing:
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The real story is, Toe lent it to Dan. Dan had no reason to read the book, let alone have it in his possession.
I should Boo him for even posting that.
My ex wrote a book by that title about our marriage. :emot_laughing:
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The real story is, Toe lent it to Dan. Dan had no reason to read the book, let alone have it in his possession.
I should Boo him for even posting that.
My ex wrote a book by that title about our marriage. :emot_laughing:
Was at a party with my first wife’s coworkers, where she got way too drunk way too early (a frequent occurrence). As I was hustling her out the door, she made a comment towards those saying goodbye about my size. There were surprised and amused looks on their faces, so I said, ‘The 3 of us will be leaving now,’ including my junk in the departure. That got a few laughs, and one guy asked if there was room in the front seat for all 3 of us.
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My ex wrote a book by that title about our marriage. :emot_laughing:
My ex wrote a book with an almost identical title. The old battleaxe changed the last word to Dick. It wasn't flattering.
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A fantasy fiction series I've been reading for years. Great characters and plot lines. Even named my car after my favorite character.... who just died.... i stopped reading it I cried for about an hour last night.
:'( :'( :'(
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I read the Sword of Truth series. It was my brother in laws favorite and had all the books. I picked up Wizards First Rule one day, read one chapter and never put it down. I don't remember the title Warheart.
This book was the conclusion? Maybe I just forgot the title name.
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I had thought the series ended after "confessor" but a while ago I found he added 4 more books.
Omen Machine
The Third Kingdom
Severed Souls
Warheart
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Reading "The Family" by Jeff Sharlet . After see clip of Ass Hole TRUMP today at The Brayer Breakfast every one should read this book !
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The Hobbit. Dan was shocked I never read it. So I'm reading it.
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Calico Joe by John Grisham.
Apparently not about the legal profession. The narrator weaves his family stuff among the MLB debut of baseball phenom Joe Castle from Calico Rock, Arkansas during the summer of 1973.
Only three chapters in but it's riveting so far.
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Calico Joe by John Grisham.
My brother in law was a fan of his and has about every one of his books. Just looked and yes it is on the bookshelf. I mentioned to Dan that you said it was good so far. He's a baseball fan. He is going to make it his next read. thx Purple
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Just finished Jack London’s ‘The Call of the Wild’. I last read it as a boy. This time I read it in small amounts sitting in a comfortable chair, read so slowly it took about 3 weeks.
Been drinking a local variety pack of RavenBeer, so I pulled out a collection of stories by Edgar Allan Poe to read next, starting with ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’.
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Just finished Jack London’s ‘The Call of the Wild’. I last read it as a boy. This time I read it in small amounts sitting in a comfortable chair, read so slowly it took about 3 weeks.
Been drinking a local variety pack of RavenBeer, so I pulled out a collection of stories by Edgar Allan Poe to read next, starting with ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’.
A favorite of mine. We have several copies here, and everyone in the house has read it at least once.
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Escort in Training by James Grey. Turning into quite an erotic read...
and it's a hot story...
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Some of the books on my reading list:
“Amelia Earhart’s Guide to the Pacific Ocean”
“America’s Most Popular Lawyers”
“Career Opportunities for History Majors”
“Detroit: A Travel Guide”
“Different Ways to Spell ‘Bob’”
“Dr. Kevorkian’s Collection of Motivational Speeches”
“Easy UNIX”
“Ethiopian Tips on World Dominance”
“Everything Men Know About Women”
“Everything Women Know About Men”
“French Hospitality”
“Guide To Dating Etiquette” by Mike Tyson
"How To Build Your Own Airplane” by John Denver
“How to Sustain a Musical Career” by Art Garfunkel
“Human Rights Advances in China”
“Intelligent Quotes” by Strom Thurmond
“My Book Of Morals” by Rev. Jessie Jackson
“My Life’s Memories” by Ronald Reagan
“My Plan to Find the Real Killers” by O. J. Simpson
“My Super Bowl Highlights” by Dan Marino
“One Hundred and One Spotted Owl Recipes” by the EPA
“The Book of Virtue” by Bill Clinton
“The Wild Years” by Al Gore
“Things I Can’t Afford” by Bill Gates
“Things I Love About Bill” by Hillary Clinton
“Things I Wouldn’t do for Money” by Dennis Rodman
“To All the Men I’ve Loved Before” by Ellen DeGeneres
“Staple Your Way to Success”
“The Amish Phone Book”
“The Differences Between Reality and Dilbert”
“The Engineer’s Guide to Fashion”
“The Microsoft Guide To Data Security”
George Foreman’s “Big Book of Baby Names”
Janet Reno’s “Beauty Secrets”
Most of them shouldn't take too long to read. ;)
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Just completed The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling. While quite well known for the Harry Potter series (none of which I've ever read) this was her first novel written for an adult audience.
Set in a small town 120 miles outside of London, the plot revolves around the aftermath of a town councilor's abrupt and unexpected death. Three men want to be elected to the casual vacancy this creates.
I thought Rowland's character development was slow. Even nearing the middle of the book I had to stop and think about the character each time the focus shifted to a different one. Once you can seamlessly identify each of the characters, it gets more interesting.
Overall it's a bit of a grim story delving into the foibles of human nature in general and the specific insecurities of the main characters.
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Rowling also wrote the Cormoran Strike series under the pen name Robert Galbraith.
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Confessions of a Prairie Bitch, an autobiography by Alison Arngrim, who will forever be identified as the character Nellie Oleson on the iconic television series Little House On The Prairie.
(https://i.postimg.cc/N0KTLwpw/000-7284508.jpg)
A surprisingly entertaining read. I learned that her mother, Norma MacMillan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma_MacMillan), was quite a famous cartoon voice (Gumby, Polly Purebred and Casper the Friendly Ghost) and her older brother, Stefan Arngrim (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Arngrim), was a teen idol in the late 60s during his role on Land of the Giants.
I came away from reading this book with a lot more respect for Ms. Arngrim both as a performer and a person.
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Confessions of a Prairie Bitch, an autobiography by Alison Arngrim, who will forever be identified as the character Nellie Oleson on the iconic television series Little House On The Prairie.
(https://i.postimg.cc/N0KTLwpw/000-7284508.jpg)
A surprisingly entertaining read. I learned that her mother, Norma MacMillan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma_MacMillan), was quite a famous cartoon voice (Gumby, Polly Purebred and Casper the Friendly Ghost) and her older brother, Stefan Arngrim (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Arngrim), was a teen idol in the late 60s during his role on Land of the Giants.
I came away from reading this book with a lot more respect for Ms. Arngrim both as a performer and a person.
This sounds very interesting. I may look into this one. Thank you, Purple!
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Stranger in the Woods by Anni Taylor. Mystery about a missing young girl who was drugged and died in hospital. A real whodunnit complete with additional plot lines...
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Everything's Eventual by Stephen King. I just started the short story "The Man In The Black Suit".
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Confessions of a Prairie Bitch, an autobiography by Alison Arngrim, who will forever be identified as the character Nellie Oleson on the iconic television series Little House On The Prairie.
(https://i.postimg.cc/N0KTLwpw/000-7284508.jpg)
A surprisingly entertaining read. I learned that her mother, Norma MacMillan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma_MacMillan), was quite a famous cartoon voice (Gumby, Polly Purebred and Casper the Friendly Ghost) and her older brother, Stefan Arngrim (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Arngrim), was a teen idol in the late 60s during his role on Land of the Giants.
I came away from reading this book with a lot more respect for Ms. Arngrim both as a performer and a person.
Off subject, but she posed for some pretty hot photos. Nothing nude, but she was hiding an amazing body under those old-fashioned clothes.
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Off subject, but she posed for some pretty hot photos. Nothing nude, but she was hiding an amazing body under those old-fashioned clothes.
She was not unaware. Chapter 12 is called BOOBS, BOYS AND SATAN. :D
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Off subject, but she posed for some pretty hot photos. Nothing nude, but she was hiding an amazing body under those old-fashioned clothes.
She was not unaware. Chapter 12 is called BOOBS, BOYS AND SATAN. :D
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The Dirty Parts of the Bible by Sam Torode.
In spite of the eye-catching title, the Bible is not what this book is about. It is a coming of age novel about one Tobias Henry, a 19-year old son of a Baptist preacher who is struggling with things any of us who were once 19-years old can identify with.
The adventure, set in 1936, begins when his father compels him to travel from a small town in Michigan to the family farm in Texas for the purpose of retrieving a bag of money hidden years ago in an abandoned well on the property.
Predictably, the naive young man loses all his money in Chicago but then is befriended by an old Negro hobo named Craw who travels with him all the way to the farm in Texas and stays on to work there.
A whimsical tale, somewhat reminiscent of Huckleberry Finn if Huck had ever traveled outside of Missouri. An entertaining story about young Tobias growing into his manhood.
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I finished "The Underground Railroad," by Colin Whitehead, last night, and I cannot recommend it more highly.
The novel starts out seeming like an oft-told story that I've read several times before. A woman is captured in Africa, sold to slave traders, transported across the Atlantic in horrifying conditions, sold to a slave-owner who has a cotton plantation in southern Georgia, and forced to endure life as a slave. Forty years later, her granddaughter, who's around 16, after receiving severe mistreatment from her master, hears of a white man nearby who helps runaway slaves escape to the North, and she escapes the plantion with another slave, seeking his assistance.
So, far, it's a well-written, but otherwise "standard" story.
And then, about 40-50 pages in, everything changes completely, in a way that I won't describe, to avoid giving anything away. It's astonishing, compulsively readable, and plainly yet elegantly written.
Don't miss it.
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Thanks MissB. I'll be looking for this one.
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Listened to the audio sample on Audiobooks. Not a fan of the narrator. Bought the Kindle version. Thank you Barb. :)
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Isaac's Storm by Erik Larsen. He intertwines the story of the U.S. Weather Bureau's beginning with the devastating hurricane that hit Galveston, TX in 1900.
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Isaac's Storm by Erik Larsen. He intertwines the story of the U.S. Weather Bureau's beginning with the devastating hurricane that hit Galveston, TX in 1900.
I LOVED that book. In fact, I think it's one of the most enthralling nonfiction books I've ever read.
After reading it, I've gone on the read all of his books, and I would recommend all of them, especially "The Devil in the White City" (which takes place in Chicago), "Thunderstruck," and "In the Garden of Beasts."
Great recommendation, Rick!
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Little White Secrets by Carol Mason... a family tale of sorts.
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Isaac's Storm by Erik Larsen. He intertwines the story of the U.S. Weather Bureau's beginning with the devastating hurricane that hit Galveston, TX in 1900.
I lived on Galveston Island while my father attended UTMB. 120 years later, the Great Storm is still a topic of conversation. The island never fully recovered.
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Isaac's Storm by Erik Larsen. He intertwines the story of the U.S. Weather Bureau's beginning with the devastating hurricane that hit Galveston, TX in 1900.
I LOVED that book. In fact, I think it's one of the most enthralling nonfiction books I've ever read.
After reading it, I've gone on the read all of his books, and I would recommend all of them, especially "The Devil in the White City" (which takes place in Chicago), "Thunderstruck," and "In the Garden of Beasts."
Great recommendation, Rick
Thank you, Miss B. I had read The Devil in the White City when it was first published. I have also read his Lethal Passage, about the story behind the sinking of the Lusitania. Both good reads.
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Marion Keyes - Murder at Mystery Close
Pretty good though I'm only a quarter way through.
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Water for Gotham, a History by Gerard T Koeppel
Interesting history on how clean water is taken for granted by us but wasn't the case not too many years ago.
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Water for Gotham, a History by Gerard T Koeppel
Interesting history on how clean water is taken for granted by us but wasn't the case not too many years ago.
Wow, that sounds right up my alley!
I read a book Koeppel wrote about the building of the Erie Canal, so he seems a natural to over this topic.
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An improbable life by Trevor McDonald.
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Moral Theology by St. Thomas Aquinas.
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Bedlam by LJRoss...Infiltrating a mental institution to trace a missing young Mafia wife... I'm a third way through now and it is compulsive reading...
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Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor - I did not realize the extent of her racism
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Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor - I did not realize the extent of her racism
If you put your judgements aside, and recognize it as coming from a specific time and place, you'll find it one of the most penetrating American novels ever written.
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Devil in the Grove by Gilbert King
Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America.
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"Long Range" by C. J. Box
About a Wyoming game warden, his wife, and his friend who is a Falconer.
They are trying to unravel a very long range hi power rifle shooting.
Very enjoyable read as is his his other books.
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April, 1865 - The Month That Saved America by Jay Winik
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Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man
by Mary L. Trump. I wish Ms. Trump had collaborated with a professional writer. She is a seasoned professional mental health expert, so she writes in a clinician’s style. It’s rather dry and methodical in its tone. But fascinating information about Trump’s childhood and family. Confirming again he’s one fucked up dude.
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Welcome To The World Baby Girl by Fannie Flagg, published 1998.
The story starts in the small town of Elmwood Springs, Missouri in the late 1940s. Knowing what I do about the author I expected a humorous, even whimsical story about life in small town America.
I was surprised to find a much deeper story, one that bounces around from the 40s to the 70s. The first half was entertaining, if a little hard to follow, but the second half of the book turns out to be a heart rending tale about covert racism in America.
As the story unfolded, I was reminded of another book I read recently, Underground Railroad by Colin Whitehead (thank you MissBarbara).
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Started in the Earthsea novels by Ursula K Le Guin but I've been doing my own writing and sitting worrying so much (distractions) that I haven't done much reading or writing. Need to get through all this crap. Bad news seems to come daily.
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The Iliad. The Lattimore translation. Lots of bronze spears through the head. Nothing sexy. Women as chattel. Seems like all the prize lists are, well, you can have this woman or this tripod.
Now Peleides set forth the prizes for the third contest,
for the painful wrestling, at once, and displayed them for the Danaans.
There was a great tripod, to set over fire, for the winner.
The Achaians among themselves valued it at the worth of twelve oxen.
But for the beaten man he set in their midst a woman
skilled in much work of her hands, and they rated her at four oxen.
-- The Iliad of Homer, Lattimore translation, Book 23, lines 700-705
Apparently those Achaians liked them some tripods.
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Don't Ever Forget by Matthew Farrell... a gripping murder mystery and more...
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John Franklin's Bride by Edith Mary Gell.
A collection of letters exchanged between Arctic explorer John Franklin and his bride-to-be Eleanor Anne Porden.
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“Old Man’s War” by John Scalzi. Best science fiction book ever written IMHO.
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My eldest daughter and I have been reading books to each other over the phone since the lockdown. First we read The Unbearable Lightness of Being, then The Iliad, and now Old Man’s War. I thought she had read it, but she hasn’t, so it’s being a treat to share it with her. We’ll probably read the series.
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"The Alienist", by Caleb Carr.
About my third or fourth time "reading" this book. (I've been listening to audiobooks for many years)
I find it fascinating each time. I love the gritty descriptions of old New York City. Add to that the twisting plot ooand early day forensics, it makes for a fun listen/read.
I'm still amused by how I first got the book, back when I still flipped pages. There was an old firehouse that was now a store selling used books. We'd pass by on Sunday nights on the way to meet friends, when it was closed.
One day we were in the area and it was open. Took time to stop in. We were met by a fellow with a full beard and twinkling eyes. Instant "like" appeal.
I started checking the shelves of thousands of paperbacks, when the owner approached me and ask just a couple questions about my tastes in books. He then went to a nearby spot and pulled out "The Alienist". Looked it over and bought it. I'd never have selected that book on my own. I'm still amazed how this guy picked a book for me based on just a couple questions.
Yes, the former fire station now book store still had the brass pole the firemen slid down when answering a call. Sadly, the city made the owner board it over.
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Congrats on finding "The Alienist". When I was working in forensic nursing many of us urged others to read the book. An enjoyable read.
I am currently reading "Edgar Allan Poe, Complete Tails and Poems". I had read bits of Poe over the years and I found this book in a used book store (where I do most of my book shopping). Wow... I learned some new things about Poe and now reading the first story in the book is the world's introduction to Sci Fi titled: The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfall. Imagine the idea of using a balloon to get to the moon....
Keep on reading folks
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Enjoy your Poe, watasch.
Just remember:
If you're reading on a midnight dreary, you may hear a rapping as of someone gently tapping on your chamber door.
Don't let 'em in. Those damn Ravens will shit all over everything...and the feathers... :emot_laughing:
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Oh man, don't I know that. My wife is a staunch Steeler fan and the Ravens? Nah..don't even want to go there. :emot_laughing:
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I finished the Harry Potter series of 7 books for the second time.
And just today I finished reading The Alchemist. I absolutely loved this book. It was wonderfully written and a beautiful story. Through his journey across the desert, Santiago discovers self understanding and spiritual enlightenment. It makes you think about your own purpose in life. This book was an omen that presented itself to me along my life journey.
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I finished the Harry Potter series of 7 books for the second time.
And just today I finished reading The Alchemist. I absolutely loved this book. It was wonderfully written and a beautiful story. Through his journey across the desert, Santiago discovers self understanding and spiritual enlightenment. It makes you think about your own purpose in life. This book was an omen that presented itself to me along my life journey.
"The Alchemist" is on my to read list. I may move it up a slot or three because I'm feeling the need for a little spiritual enlightenment just about now. Thank you.
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Since the Covid-19 began, my eldest daughter and I have developed the routine of reading books out loud to each other for half an hour every evening. So far we have read:
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
The Illiad by Homer (several translations, about 1/2 Richmond Lattimore)
Old Man's War by John Scalzi
The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi
The Last Colony by John Scalzi
Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
We're only up to chapter 5 in the last one. They haven't even made it to Buckland.
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On Dublin Street by Samantha Young
I don't even know how I came to possess this book. Maybe a garage sale.
I knew nothing about this book when I opened the cover other than a steamy cover photo. Half way through and I'm still not sure what it is about, other than a girl who lost her parents at the age of 14, ended up with a foster family and now at the age of 22 has left the states and she is in Dublin trying to write a book. She resists the advances of her roommates brother who is wealthy. And now, they've decided to be friends with benefits. The 22 year old has a lot of baggage that hasn't come out in the story. That's where I'm at.
Right now on a scale of 1-5, I give the story a 3.
The sex descriptions from the author are a 6 (out of 5) though.
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I finished the book. I liked it. Didn't love it.
I wasn't sure where the book was headed, but assumed it was the main character struggling with her past and having to get over it. And that's pretty much what it was.
4 out of 5 stars.
Did I mention the sex scenes were frickin HOT!
Now, what do I read next. hmmm
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Ummmm, doesn't this thread require the book title be posted. Just asking for a friend. :-[
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It was a continuation from the post before it. Should have explained that, Sorry!
On Dublin Street by Samantha Young
:)
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Thanks.
(looking for a copy and checking supply of tissues)
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Ego Maniac by Vi Keeland.
Great little light hearted read.
Drew is a cynical divorce lawyer, he himself is divorced.
Emery is a positively and hopeful marriage councillor.
They have offices next to each other.
Many grin worthy and witty banter moments between the two.
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First Date, a novel by Sue Watson
A chilling story of love gone bad and betrayal, set in the UK.
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I just finished Empire Falls by Richard Russo about a fictional small town in backwoods Maine filled with personable and sometimes violent characters that has fallen on hard times after the textile mill closed.
And I just started Under the Dome by Stephen King about a fictional small town in backwoods Maine filled with personable and sometimes violent characters that has fallen on hard times after the textile mill closed, except with an inexplicable force field around it.
My father that died 4 months before I was born was born in such a small town in Maine, except it was a paper mill town.
I read Empire Falls because I read an article about Ivanka Trump’s best friend from school who suggested Ivanka read it, whereupon Ivanka replied, “Why would I read a book about poor people?”
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Right now I'm reading Rick Coleman's "Blue Monday: Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock 'n' Roll". I've read a lot of biographies of the pioneers of Rock 'n' Roll, and this certainly goes on my top 5 of them. It's very well written, easy to read for me too who's not talking English as a mother language, and it very interestingly also draws a picture of coloured peoples culture and living situations in 20th century's southern Louisiana.
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The story of WWll by Donald L.Miller 😎 very informing on how our slodiers fought for our freedom 🇺🇸 Very humbleing 👍
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The story of my life...
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I just bought the visual novel adaptation of the podcast Bubble. I need to start reading it now.
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GREG ILES, Cemetery Road
About half way through. So far so good. If it finishes strong I may have found a new fiction author with plenty of books written that I can spend the next few months on.
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As you may recall, I've been reading books back and forth with my eldest daughter since I moved East. She is still Out West. We just finished Dune by Frank Herbert last night. We are starting Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen tomorrow night. War and Peace is coming.
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As you may recall, I've been reading books back and forth with my eldest daughter since I moved East. She is still Out West. We just finished Dune by Frank Herbert last night. We are starting Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen tomorrow night. War and Peace is coming.
Wow, I'm about half way through Dune. I've seen so many adaptions of Pride and Prejudice (BBC's 6-Part from 1990s is the best I believe) that I probably wouldn't bother now, plus it's a bit Oprah Book Club.
Ah, War and Peace. Well. It took me around 6 months, reading some most days, back when I used to get a train to work. Spoiler alert perhaps, but the end is terrible. It just fizzles out into an unreadable essay. Awful. Tolstoy got so big for his boots he thought he was reinventing the novel form.He didn't.
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I've seen so many adaptions of Pride and Prejudice (BBC's 6-Part from 1990s is the best I believe) that I probably wouldn't bother now, plus it's a bit Oprah Book Club.
So far, Pride and Prejudice is being a great read, just for the language and the writing. I think it would be difficult to capture the subtle hilarity of the book in any other medium. Her depictions of both male and female characters are more accurate than mere truth could manage.
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A fantasy fiction series I've been reading for years. Great characters and plot lines. Even named my car after my favorite character.... who just died.... i stopped reading it I cried for about an hour last night.
:'( :'( :'(
My favorite is the Mord-Sith from the Sword of Truth series
OMG. Terry Goodkind. Mordsith are bad ass bitches. This is one of my favorite series. Have we had this discussion?
Zedd, Richard, Kahlan, Nikki. Gawddd I loved that series.
It is without a doubt my favorite fantasy fiction series, and The Wheel of Time is a close second.
He was supposed to do a short series based on Nikki and Nathan Rahl, but unfortunately he passed away last year.
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Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
Book by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
To date I have almost finished reading the title 🧐
A question. Does listening to audio books count as reading?
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Yes. Audiobooks are books. Most of my "reading" is done with my ears.
I'm able to listen to favorite authors as I do chores around the house, ride herd on the cats when they're outside and during my workout at the gym.
No matter how the words get to your brain, it's reading.
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Yes. Audiobooks are books. Most of my "reading" is done with my ears.
I'm able to listen to favorite authors as I do chores around the house, ride herd on the cats when they're outside and during my workout at the gym.
No matter how the words get to your brain, it's reading.
Thanks.I think so to. For millions of years information was shared through our ears, while writing has only been around tens of thousands, maybe. Then my list of what I'm reading now just got a whole lot longer.
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I'm enjoying a recent book by Andy Weir, the author of "The Martian" which became a hit movie. It's called "Project Hail Mary". The earth is impearled by strange particles that are causing the sun to cool and an extinction event is just several years away. Three astronauts are sent on a one way trip to Tau Ceti with hopes of finding an answer to saving earth. On arrival only one has survived the induced coma needed for the long flight. He's earth's only hope and on waking he doesn't even remember his name. Uh-oh!
It's a very entertaining read (listen, I do audiobooks)
Weir was an IT guy but always wanted to be a writer. The success of "The Martian" has given him the money to pursue his dream of being an author instead of a computer nerd. I'll be watching for more books from this guy.
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I read the books by Edgar Rice Burroughs as a boy and many times thereafter. I found a collection of his John Carter of Mars works on my iPad from some book download I must have done and recently reread the first 3 books.
I came to a conclusion today. I think I can credit at least some of my chivalry towards women coming from the romantic nature of Burroughs stories I read so thoroughly in my youth.
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Last book I've read,
Master of the Game https://g.co/kgs/JumFsH
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I'm reading Police and Crime in India by Sir Edward C. Cox (London: Stanley Paul, 1911), probably as a reaction to binge-reading several dozen sugar-sweet romantic novels of the same period. I also have a pile of books waiting to be read, including three biographies: two of guitarists (Jorma Kaukonen & Richard Thompson) and one of a Pakistani aristocrat whom I knew at university, though at that time I had no idea of his background.
- Richard Thompson. Beeswing: Fairport, Folk Rock and Finding My Voice 1967-75. London: Faber & Faber, 2021.
- Jorma Kaukonen. Been So Long: My Life and Music. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2018.
- Terry Williams and Raza Mohammed Khan. The Vanishing Indian Upper Class: Life History of Raza Mohammed Khan. London: Anthem Press, 2020.
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Is that APA or MLA format? Been so long since school I can't remember 😁💋
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Is that APA or MLA format? Been so long since school I can't remember 😁💋
I formatted those references from memory, but they're based on Chicago, with the date at the end. I didn't follow the convention of swapping first/last name of author. I haven't used MLA in years and don't know what they're recommending these days. I drift from APA to Chicago and then back again.
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Is that APA or MLA format? Been so long since school I can't remember 😁💋
I formatted those references from memory, but they're based on Chicago, with the date at the end. I didn't follow the convention of swapping first/last name of author. I haven't used MLA in years and don't know what they're recommending these days. I drift from APA to Chicago and then back again.
What are APA & MLA formats? ???
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What are APA & MLA formats? ???
Sorry! APA = American Psychological Association and MLA = Modern Language Association.
Both associations publish author guides, defining how citations and book references should be formatted in academic papers.
APA and Chicago (named after the Chicago Manual of Style) are the most popular, but there are dozens of other formats required by academic journals.
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What are APA & MLA formats? ???
Sorry! APA = American Psychological Association and MLA = Modern Language Association.
Both associations publish author guides, defining how citations and book references should be formatted in academic papers.
APA and Chicago (named after the Chicago Manual of Style) are the most popular, but there are dozens of other formats required by academic journals.
Thank You for answering my question. Happy to give you your first woo.
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The book I'm reading at this moment is:
F. E. Penny. Magic in the Air. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1933.
Fanny Emily Penny was a best-selling author who wrote Anglo-Indian novels set, for the most part, in Southern India, where her husband was stationed as a military chaplain.
She passed away in 1939, so Magic in the Air is one of her last books, and perhaps not as good as some of her earlier work. The "magic" of the title concerns a jungle shaman with hypnotic powers.
One of the things I like about Penny's work is her sympathetic approach to Indian folk religions and superstitions, unusual in the wife of a Church of England minister.
Next up on my reading list is Suknia i Fartuszek (The Skirt and the Apron), a collection of papers about women's freemasonry in Poland from the 18th century to the present day.
So much to read, so little time. :-[
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Eric Berger. Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX. HarperCollins, 2021.
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==> B. M. Croker. Miss Balmaine’s Past. London: Chatto & Windus, 1898.
Forty pages in, and it looks set to be just another sugar-sweet romance featuring a naive heiress and a handsome (aren't they all?) lover.
I'll plough on to the end as I'm interested in B. M. (Bithia Mary) Croker's work, and have enjoyed her Anglo-Indian stories.
Fun fact: Croker's literary success was assured when reporters spotted Prime Minister Gladstone reading her first novel during a sitting of Parliament. How's that for publicity?
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John Grisham’s
The Rooster Bar.
Truly a fascinating story!
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I'm on the second book of Cassandra Clare's The Mortal Instruments series. I just discovered Clare's books, and I love them.
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==> Flora Annie Steel. Mistress of Men. London: Heinemann, 1918.
A fictional biography of Nur Jahan (1577-1645), consort of Mughal emperor Jahangir. A intriguing book about a remarkable woman, written by the queen of Anglo-Indian literature.
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==> Flora Annie Steel. Mistress of Men. London: Heinemann, 1918.
A fictional biography of Nur Jahan (1577-1645), consort of Mughal emperor Jahangir. A intriguing book about a remarkable woman, written by the queen of Anglo-Indian literature.
Fascinating.
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==> Flora Annie Steel. Mistress of Men. London: Heinemann, 1918.
A fictional biography of Nur Jahan (1577-1645), consort of Mughal emperor Jahangir. A intriguing book about a remarkable woman, written by the queen of Anglo-Indian literature.
Fascinating.
Fascinating, yes, but very heavy going if you’re looking for a relaxing read.
Flora Annie Steel was one of the few Victorian authors who preferred to write about Indian India, not British India. The only other one that comes to mind is Meadows Taylor.
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There is some great Indian porn on asstr.org. One story in particular stands out, about a boy who seduces his mother on an overnight train trip. But I love that whole brown skinned and hairy muffed Indian thing.
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There is some great Indian porn on asstr.org. One story in particular stands out, about a boy who seduces his mother on an overnight train trip. But I love that whole brown skinned and hairy muffed Indian thing.
I owe you one, PornHubby. :emot_kiss:
Your mention of Indian porn sent me looking for Charles Devereaux' Venus in India, one of only two porn books listed in Gupta's India in English Fiction 1800-1970. (The other is one of those cheap paperbacks published by the Olympia Press in Paris, back in the 1950s).
There's a copy of Venus in India in the Internet Archive, but for copyright reasons it's read-online-only, and has to be checked out, one hour at a time.
https://archive.org/details/venusinindia0000deve/mode/2up (https://archive.org/details/venusinindia0000deve/mode/2up)
Soooo. Something made me do what I should have done a long time ago, which is search my own 1TB archive of ebooks, and. . . . . Yay! I had a copy of Venus in India all along, though without the introductory essay that's included in the Internet Archive version. Color me happy!
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==> Sydney C. Grier. Like Another Helen. Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1899.
A novel about the early days of the East India Company, in the form of letters sent by a young Englishwoman to her friend at home.
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Thirty minutes later:
I'm about to give up on Like Another Helen. It's quicker and less tedious to read the relevant chapter of a history book. But. . . . Just as I was about to say goodbye to Miss Sylvia Freyne, the heroine of the story, I came across this sentence:
Mr Dash was announced, and the two gentlemen sent for their hookers.
The footnote informs us that *hooker* = huqa, "a strange sort of tobacco-pipe, with a vessel of water and a long tube like a serpent and all manner of outlandish additions belonging to them."
Good to know, but I think my first guess was more fun.
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I owe you one, PornHubby. :emot_kiss:
https://www.asstr.org/~Kristen/53/yatra.txt
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I owe you one, PornHubby. :emot_kiss:
https://www.asstr.org/~Kristen/53/yatra.txt
Thanks for the link. Until someone on this board mentioned a story set in Japan, I had no idea there was an Asian section of the Kristen Archives. So much to explore.
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My daughter and I are now reading “Into the West,” a sprawling Chinese mythology book. An English translation of it, at least. We have a practice where on weeknights we have a half hour phone call and alternate reading.
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My daughter and I are now reading “Into the West,” a sprawling Chinese mythology book. An English translation of it, at least. We have a practice where on weeknights we have a half hour phone call and alternate reading.
I don't know if we're talking about the same book, but if we are, I remember reading Arthur Waley's abridged translation a long, long time ago. I also remember reading his translations of
classical Japanese literature. An amazing scholar who taught himself classical Chinese and classical Japanese, but couldn't speak either language.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Waley (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Waley)
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==> John Travers (Eva Bell). Those Young Married People. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1922.
I'm halfway through this 320-page novel, and so far it's been a rather tedious psychological study of a young dissatisfied wife.
After four years of marriage to a all-round nice guy, she decides she wants more out of life, and entertains dreams of getting divorced and becoming rich and famous.
I don't know whether the author intended to make this lady as unsympathetic as possible, or whether it's a veiled criticism of attitudes to marriage, but I can't help thinking that, one hundred years later, this annoying lady would make a perfect social media influencer.
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I thought I'd share an anecdote I came across yesterday. After working my way through four books by an author called R. J. Minney, about India in the 1920s, I had this image of him as a civil servant who lived and worked in Calcutta. I decided to look him up and was astonished by what I found. After writing those four books he went on to an illustrious career in movies, wrote several best-selling biographies, and also went into UK politics.
This is the anecdote that caught my attention:
[He] wrote both the book and play ‘Clive of India’, which ran for over a year in London and was later filmed. The Royal family unexpectedly arrived for the opening night of the play. On the same night RJ took a call from Daryl Zanuk, the legendary 1930’s impresario and film-maker, asking RJ to call at Claridges. In Zanuk’s suite the next day Zanuk invited RJ to Hollywood, RJ declined as he was due to leave for Russia to work on a biography on Rasputin, to which Zanuk reputedly responded; “Now Mr Minney sit down a minute, we haven’t talked about money yet.” The next day RJ left for Hollywood.
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==> John Travers (Eva Mary Bell). Hot Water. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1929.
A satire about a bumbling, misguided government fact-finding commission.
On p. 36 I came across this line:
“[He] greeted her with an expression as flagrantly gay as bunting.”
If the author had written “gay as bunting” I wouldn’t have noticed, but the flagrantly + gay caught my attention.
I couldn’t help smiling as images of colorful Pride Parades flashed through my mind.
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Forbidden Sexual Behavior and Morality. I guess I have done most of these. LOL. R. E. I. Masters. 1962, Julian Press.
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There’s been some chat today about smutty reading. And I am a lover of smutty reading. So I got on my favorite Abe‘s Books (thanks again Hilda), and ordered four new ones. Can’t wait to pollute my mind with some more vile pornographic obscenity.
Fifty Shades of Louisa May : A Memoir of Transcendental Sex
Author: Anonymous, Louisa May
Black Pearl: The Memoirs of a Victorian Sex Magician, Vol. 3
Author: Anonymous
House Of Incest
Author: Nin, Anais
Delta of Venus
Author: Nin, Anais
I’ve read Delta of Venus before. Really one of the most erotic books of my youth. Can’t wait to see if it’s still affects me the same way it once did.
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I am reading Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue. A wonder De Sade book.
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==> Linda Stratmann. Greater London Murders. Cheltenham: The History Press, 2010.
My pile of unread books is threatening to tip over, but I'm reading this book out of sequence. I'd never heard of Linda Stratmann until she appeared in a TV feature about the Whitechapel murders. I was impressed, and ordered her A-Z compendium of London murders. They're in alphabetical order, so I'm still working my way through the Bs — Barking, Barnet, Bexley, Brent. She has so much geographical area to cover that each murder gets only a few pages, but her research is meticulous.
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"...unread books is threatening to tip over,...".
I would have guessed you as a real book reader, instead of a Kindle. Probably never even picked up a Kindle. Classy lady.
Enjoy your Linda murder series.
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Just finished Cool With Her, by Kenny Wright.
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Delta of Venus, Anïs Nin.
:emot_thdrool: :emot_thdrool: :emot_thdrool:
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Delta of Venus, Anïs Nin.
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Excellent choice. I'm re-reading The Lymond Chronicles by Dorothy Dunnett yet again. And Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson.
Steven Pinker nonfiction as well
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Starting Upon Further Review - The Greatest What-Ifs In Sports History, by Mike Pesca.
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Just finished reading The Last Paladin, by PT Deutermann. It is a WWII ship vs sub story based on a true story.
And always enjoying short stories at Kristen's archive! Love the ones about adult male and female with young.
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The Perfect Daughter by Daniel Palmer (2021) Psychological thriller/murder mystery/courtroom drama
Sixteen year old Penny was adopted at the age of four. She has been diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder (multiple personalities) and is charged with murdering her birth mother. Very entertaining story.
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reading 2 books. Biloxi Boys by J Grissom and Fairy Tales by s King. Both good.
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Where the Crawdads Sing.
Read the book before, still on my kindle. Saw the movie. Rereading until I can download a new book on Kindle.
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The First Wife by Jill Childs
Just getting going on it.
Have I mentioned Libby here before. It's an app. Free books with a library card. Have to wait a bit for some, but they deliver right to your kindle account. Love it. Haven't paid for a book in a year now.
Logging off to read now. Goodnight.
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The First Wife by Jill Childs
Just getting going on it.
Have I mentioned Libby here before. It's an app. Free books with a library card. Have to wait a bit for some, but they deliver right to your kindle account. Love it. Haven't paid for a book in a year now.
Logging off to read now. Goodnight.
Good night :emot_kiss:
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Once again I've started re-reading all of Sir Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories. I've read through them several times but every few years I come back and pick up the volume again. What the heck, it only 1100+ pages, and I have the time
I find the writing from the turn of the century easy to fall into. I'll be spending a few weeks in.old London and shadowing Holmes and Watson. The game is afoot. :D
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Farie Tales by S King
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This is me. Especially the first part.
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This is me. Especially the first part.
I remember reading the second half of Frank Herbert's "Dune" in one long sitting, coming to the end, and finding myself back in the real world. Through the window of my shabby room I could see rain pouring down and smell the moisture in the air.
I can't put into words the feelings that I experienced. I almost cried at the blessed beauty of rain.
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I can just imagine "coming back from the dry sands of Dune" to a rainy day.
As a Sci Fi fan from my youth I've often been drawn into other worlds and cultures. Back here on earth I got wrapped up in the life of the young girl in, " Where The, Crawdads Sing". Guess it was my love of nature that had me relate to her.
When am author can transport you into another world like that, it's magical.
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I'm reading "That State of Life" written in 1938 by British author and broadcaster Hilton Brown. The theme is people dissatisfied with their work and relationships.
I've read other novels by Brown and never noted anything strange. Well-written, well-researched, and spiced with the right amount of humour.
For some reason the current novel has got me consulting my favourite dictionary (Chambers) every few minutes. Words, expressions, acronyms, and abbreviations I've never come across. Chambers, which is excellent for dialect, tells me that some of the problem words are First Word War slang and corruptions of French picked up by British soldiers. Many of the acronyms and abbreviations have to do with the Spanish Civil War, which plays a significant part in the narrative. The thing is, I'm sure the people who read this book when it was published had no difficulty deciphering these cryptic items.
Coming across books like this makes me think of the power of current events to mould vocabulary and change language. I tell myself that I'm better off not knowing the meaning of "napoo" (from the French il n'y en a plus) or "gaby" (dialect for simpleton). But it still irks me that I'm struggling with fairly straightforward text that was abundantly clear to the readers of 85 years ago. George Steiner wrote a lengthy study of this very phenomenon. After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation (1975).
I had absolutely no luck finding a meaning for "airwoman". Dictionaries tell me it's a female flier, but the context is ". . . except for charwomen, airwomen and fallen women, there were no women in [her] world"
Women who air washing, or air rooms, or air something? Women who come and go like air, i.e. unreliable? Women who daydream and are up in the air? Can anyone help?
And while I'm on the subject of the Spanish Civil War, there's a scene in the book that made my skin crawl. A bunch of International Brigade volunteers are billeted in a deserted convent. Two of them come back drunk from a visit to the nearest town. One of them points to a small gateway at the entrance to the convent and asks his companion if he knows what's in there. "Sure, it's a cemetery," his friend replies. "Do you know what's buried there?" "The nuns?" "No, babies!"
Dear oh dear. Memories of the Magdalene Sisters scandal in Ireland. And the same thing happening in Spain decades earlier.
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==> Terry Welbourn. T. C. Lethbridge: The Man Who Saw the Future. Alresford, Hants, UK: O-Books, 2011.
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I first came across Lethbridge in a book by Colin Wilson, who wrote a foreword for the above.
Lethbridge was an eccentric who experimented with mapping the 'vibrations' of metals and archaeological objects. He used a pendulum to determine the frequencies of elements. I tried it myself and found that a homemade pendulum responded well. I used it to triangulate the location of a watch that had gone missing, with no luck. I suspect that my daughter dropped it in the rubbish bin. It was one of those with a lid you open by stepping on a small pedal. When she was 3-4 yrs old she loved dropping anything that moved into the bin.
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I picked up a volume of Dashiell Hammett stories. Just started "The Maltese Falcon". Yes, I've read it a few times plus.have see the movie many times.
I still find it an enjoyable read. It's one of the few stories where Hammett gives the main character a name, Sam Spade. Most of what I've read have been about the Continental Op. He never got a name, just that he worked for the Continental Detective Agency.
Giving Sam Spade a name made it easier to take it to the silver screen.
The book is enjoyable as Spade peels back the layers of the woman who first hired him. Then the rest of the gang gets involved but Spade is up to the task
Sidebar:
The movie for the most part follows the book. Much of the dialogue is taken right off the pages of the book.
It was also the first film John Huston directed. I remember seeing him on a talk show. He talked about how everyone was ready to shoot the first scene. Actors all in place, crew ready to film but nothing was happening. Finally somebody leaned over and whispered to Huston, You need to say action. :D
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Great flick with Bogey. I have a copy in my Prime account.
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It being the spooky season, I am sitting here at my desk reading a book with a collection of gothic horror stories from a long time ago. Also Poe is the good read for the horror that needs no monsters, but shining the light on the evil of humanity.
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It being the spooky season, I am sitting here at my desk reading a book with a collection of gothic horror stories from a long time ago. Also Poe is the good read for the horror that needs no monsters, but shining the light on the evil of humanity.
Growing up I had a book called Scary Stories to tell in the dark. The monochromatic sketches inside the book made the stories all the more creepy and scary. I had nightmares about some of those sketches.
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Jeez Shiela after seeing those pics you dug up from that old book of scary stories, I can see why you posted in "Can't Sleep" topic. Those are scary. :eek: