Seven daughters of Eve
Only just started but looks interesting.
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Seven daughters of Eve
Only just started but looks interesting.
A very good read!
Yes, "Passage at Arms" is well done. The writer knows well the English language! He does not flaunt that knowledge but uses descriptive words to make the story live. Another war without really knowing why and the strain upon those who fight it while the glory hounds are in charge.
http://www.alibris.com/Passage-at-Ar...450?matches=93
I have read "Das Bööt" more than once and have seen both the English translation one and the German one with subtitles. This was close to them in reality.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Boo...ambiguation%29
Thank you!
I am a bit concussed..I was half way through "The Chinese Lake Murders" by Robert van Gulik. A story from the 7th century or so in old China. A bit of a stretch for my mind when"-Passage-" arrived and its far future setting was read in one 5 hour sitting.
The Chinese Lake Murders - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
~Richard
Shaping the Journey of Emerging Adults: Life Giving Rhythms for Spiritual Transformation by Jana Sundene and Rick Dunn. I have to finish it today and write a book report (1250 words) by tomorrow. Should be manageable if I can stay of here :)
I enjoyed it, but I found his overuse of metaphors and similes detracted from the story somewhat. It makes sense from the POV character, but it seemed a little overdone to me. Take it with a grain of salt though, as I'm a big fan of Patrick Rothfuss and metaphors are his stock and trade.
I am reading - again - "Through the Brazilian Wilderness" by Ted Roosevelt. Ted`s books always amaze me. African Game Trails is a superb book too.
I like travel books. There are a lot of them, mainly wrote by naturalists, in my library. I`ll soon start to read Lieut. Page book on his trip to South America.
I thought the whole idea re brazilian is that there is no wilderness...
We still have some... not a lot, unfortunately. Brazilian government goal is to turn our country the largest parking lot of the world.
Because of this these old reports amaze me.
Sorry I was referring to a different type of Brazilian... ie shaving/waxing.
He he he... sorry, English is not my mother language and sometimes is hard to detect some subtleties. Both "wildernesses" walk the same path, although. Both Jaguars, golden-faced tamarins and crab lice are endangered species nowadays.
Narrow Road To The Deep North by Richard Flanagan. WWII (1943) story of an Australian surgeon's struggle to survive in a Japanese POW camp during the building of the Burma/Thailand railroad.
I'll trade u a havana for the book when you
Are done reading it. It's on my short list
Offer is void if book has seen the inside of a bathroom
svcaramia, as much as I love my Cuban cigars the book is an e book on my ipad. : (
Sugar! No winner tonight
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, just finished it.....the guy was writing in his 3rd language!
Now reading All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr.
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
Dracula; Prince of Many Faces, His Life And His Times.
by Radu r. Florescu
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain.......I don't want to put it down.....
You just had a book,,,, you read a lot ?
I wish I took the time,,,,,
A Pirate Looks at 50 by Jimmy Buffett,Great read.
I just learned something today,,,,,,thank you ,,,,,,,,,,
Reading the Ragamuffin Gospel , Brennan Manning. A must read!!
I finished this yesterday and whilst it only took two sittings the house was rowdy and I had feared I was missing something which has prompted me to buy a cheap audio book from iTunes to listen to in the van to see if having it read to me changes my mind (Marlow's instant just add water relationship with Kurtz was causing me difficulty) . As a bonus it has a reading of "Youth" which is a great yarn and I am now inspired to read that and pretty much everything else he has written. So thanks WW243 for your post as he wasn't on my radar as a must read and who knows when I would have got around to him if ever.
i'm reading "Murdered on Orient Express" of Agatha Christie....i'm a fan of yellow/noir/thriller genre. ( The same kind also as regards the film..especially of 70/80 )
Can't recall if I posted this yet but I kind of stopped and started again: Blindness by Jose Saramago (Winner for the Nobel Prize for Literature).
I read 4 hrs a day at least,5 books per week.never fiction.
Just started a Johnny Cash autobiography, enjoying it a lot.
12 O'Clock High
by Beirne Lay, Jr.; Bartlett, Sy ~1949
A book about the heroes we deride today.
""In 1949, American attorney and former U.S. Army Air Forces officer Harvey Stovall is vacationing in Great Britain when he spots a familiar Toby Jug in an antique shop window. He asks the proprietor where he bought the jug and he is told that it came from Archbury, which is the location of the former Royal Air Force Station Archbury and USAAF station where Stovall served with the 918th Bomb Group during World War II.""
Flashbacks from there onward. a good read about when people actually were behind the ridding of the world's trash! The book underscores the price that was paid in men and minds.
~Richard
I lucked into a box of 100 nearly new WWII books and have been devouring them as they were /are the basis for my beliefs today from my original reading of them back then!
Couldn't tell you exactly when, but I was once a non fiction devotee, now it is primarily fiction with the occasional non fiction, the latest non fiction, about a month ago, was The Elephant Whisperer, My Life with the Herd in the African Wild by Lawrence Anthony with Graham Spence
I had read that short story in University and wasn't taken with it, read it again several weeks ago and it still doesn't quite resonate with me.
My biggest surprise several weeks ago was reading Rudyard Kipling's, "The Man Who Would be King", another novella, wish it had never ended!
My wife reads nothing but Fiction is addicted to,Baldacchi (sp),I just finished a tome about Soviet prisoners in the death camps of Germany
Just started a book about the Ford family and Henry ford,would rather learn somthing factual than fiction,just my way.
I just finished a short story called The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains by Neil Gaiman. Very interesting and not what I expected.
Reading is such an individual thing I believe it completely depends on the person doing the reading. I agree with you that when I read fiction I do a lot of thinking about what the author/book say about us as people and societies. But that's probably from my background as an historian and my experience wringing meaning out of all kinds of sources during periods when "factual" documents are absent. Others with different interests, backgrounds, experiences, and approaches to reading will get very different things from reading the same text. I like that. Life would be awfully boring if we saw everything in the same light.