Finished The Circle and Physics and Philosophy.
Now reading On Such a Full Sea and Galileo's Dialogues. Planning on Seveneves next, if I can find a copy.
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Finished The Circle and Physics and Philosophy.
Now reading On Such a Full Sea and Galileo's Dialogues. Planning on Seveneves next, if I can find a copy.
Technocreep by Thomas P. Keenan
I've been reading Plato's Euthypro, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo. Phaedo has me bogged down. It just doesn't hold my attention like the other chapters.
The Complete Short Stories of Flannery O' Connor
I read 6 currant Books this week about the Holocost,cannot believe the Nazis did what they did:(
Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell. This is the last of Woodrell's novels I have been privileged to read....I waited to read it because I saw the film when it was released and thought that that fact may have a negative impact on the reading experience.....the exact opposite occurred. Films and books are practically unrelated (films made from books). I guess I state the obvious but a book is so much richer and can fill one completely. To use a music analogy, a book is a chord and a film is a series of single notes. I like the film Winter's Bone a lot.......the book....well, it's a book.
Finally finished On Such a Full Sea. I did not like it. Not that it was bad, it just didn't capture me at all, and I didn't like the narration method.
Read Orange is the New Black over the last few days, and I liked it. The show is definitely only loosely based on the book.
My signed copy if Seveneves should be here tomorrow or the day after!
I am undecided whether to start reading in this summer days...Nortangher abbey of J.Austen or Marina of C.L. Zafon....mmmm....your advice?
Who can go wrong with Jane Austen? Northanger Abbey is one of her shorter novels and just as delightful as all her others.Quote:
Originally Posted by kratos86
"All The Light We Cannot See," by Anthony Doerr, this year's Pulitzer Prize winner. A story of WW II through the eyes of a German boy and a blind French girl. Outstanding writing, beautifully descriptive, and one of the best books I've ever read.
I've read it and was mesmerized from start to finish. Especially was enamored of the last few chapters as the story was brought up to present time.
Harry Turtledove, "Joe Steele" - just finished, a superb alternative history of the US starting with the untimely death of Roosevelt before he was first elected President. Fun read!
Was just wondering if you were going to like Turtledove's latest. Got another for you Phrank. Perfidia by James Elroy. I'm smack in the first third of it (900+ pages.) Its a fictionalized murder/mayhem/corruption/dirty dealing saga of Los Angeles staring a few days before Dec 7th, 1941 and going day by day of unbelievable prejudice/hate/love/intrigue/downright cold heartlessness of the human spirit. If you read it be prepared for what we now consider highly offensive language and attitudes. Can hardly put it down.Quote:
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Currently have the following on the go:
"February" by Lisa Lynne Moore
"The 80/20 Principle" by Richard Koch
"Work Rules!" by Laszlo Boch
"Sapiens" by Yuval N Harari
So far "February" is on top, although I predict I will have trouble finishing it. Not because it is bad. Rather, because it may tug too hard my heart strings.
I will report back once I am done with them.
Just finished The Martian. Excellent book, I can't really say much about it without giving much of it away. Basically a guy gets left on the surface of Mars because they thought he was dead. Excellent read and I highly recommend it.
Now I'm reading Beyond the Cosmos. It explains that there are many more dimensions to our universe than just the 4 we can see and interact with and how God can use those extra dimensions to do things that we can't figure out how He does them. This one is really stressing the limits of my mind in being able to grasp the concepts being discussed but it's fun getting my mind broadened.
Excellent novel, the guy who wrote it started it as a blog for fun, and lots of folks from NASA and other space agencies ended up helping him with a lot of the science behind it. Last I heard, they were making a movie out of it - great read.Quote:
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Yep he talks about that in the back of the book. All the details being correct added to my enjoyment of it.
Reading “Gideon’s Spies” The Secret History of the Mossad, by Gordon Thomas, it is a very interesting read, with a lot of back story on recent history, even more poignant, given the current state of world politics and rise of terror.
I was surprised of Israel’s historical role and relationship with the Vatican and in Africa.
Most interesting was background, on the battle between China and Russia, in Africa, to sponsor terror and adopt their brand of communism, the large role of Castro and Cuba in the distribution of the Russian brand and weapons.
It is interesting how quickly “we” forget and forgive Cuba’s part in the birth of modern terror, in the late 50’s early 60’s and its direct relation of the epidemic spread we face today. It is not just about cheap cigars and rum, there is a very nasty and dangerous history there and a reason for Cuba’s historic embargo.
It is in fact, a history book, an interesting, well written one. Sadly as Santayan wrote in 1905 “The Life of Reason”, and Winston Churchill made famous. “ Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
Revisionist politicians and an uneducated public, will doubtlessly cause us to repeat it.
The Space Trilogy by CS Lewis. Outstanding.
Just downloaded the Trilogy to Kobo, always loved CS. Lewis - thanks!Quote:
Originally Posted by jgjgjg
Thud by Terry pratchett. I have been reading discworld books for about 25 years I think. The characters are like old friends.
Anybody order a copy of Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman? I read a review that said the characters are portrayed very differently than they were in To Kill a Mockingbird.
Don't know anything about it, but I'll betcha a nickel that it will an emblematic example of moving from the era where a book about race had to have a white 'hero' to the era where a book about race cannot have a white 'hero'.Quote:
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The new book was actually written before To Kill a Mockingbird.
I just finish Captain Phil Harris: The Legendary Crab Fisherman, Our Hero, Our Dad [Josh Harris, Jake Harris, Blake Chavez, Steve Springer]
and I am starting to read North by Northwestern: A Seafaring Family on Deadly Alaskan Waters [Captain Sig Hansen, Mark Sundeen]
I got a new Kindle White Paper, I am not one to read books in one or two seatings , But I started reading the Capt. Phil Harris book on the 4th of July and finished it on 6th of July.
Just finished Count Zero by William Gibson. Not sure what's next. Probably The Martian or Seveneves.
Kindle fire here,love it,I read no less than 5 hrs/day.
Just finished a great read,The devils Teeth.
Have always been facinated with sharks.
This true story is about the Farrallon Island,a mere 30 miles from San Francisco.
Every Sept some of the worlds largest Great whites,(some over 20 Ft) come to feed on the seals and sea Lions.
Lots of blood and gore in this book.
MCilhennys Gold,the history of Tabasco sauce,a fun read:)
Sounds like a hot topic,,,,:shrug:
I've been rereading my Heinlein books. Currently reading Friday, one of his latter works. Love Heinlein.
Agreed - Stranger in a Strange Land is one of my favourites, first one I read and got me hooked...Quote:
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Love Turtledove's alternate history works.Quote:
Originally Posted by Phrank
I believe that Matt Damon stars in the movie. Sounds like it will be a better film than Gravity, at least.Quote:
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Right now I'm reading Windigo Island by William Kent Krueger . It's the latest in a detective series based on a sheriff working in a small town in northeastern Minnesota. Apparently there's a lot of mischief happening in small, northwoods towns.
For the last couple of days I have been reading something that I have missed *terribly* for far, far too long. Bloom County is back! OK, so it isn't War and Peace, but it does my heart good to see Opus again. :)
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I'm reading "Murderous Intellectuals" by John Maxwell. It is about the Nazis and what drove educated and cultured people to commit barbaric atrocities. Good read.
Just finished The Martian. Quite good. I had heard it was overly technical, but I didn't think so at all.
Bloom County is my all time FAVOURITE strip. So glad to see that it has returned, for however long that may be. I have not delved too deeply into the "why" of it, but it seems obvious that the fiasco that is the current Republican slate is the motivation.
I was/am a big fan of Calvin and Hobbes. Currently waiting for the complete works from the library.
Just finished the Tabasco book,some interesting stats I think,at the turn of the last century they were selling 20K bottles a year.
Today they crank out 600 thousand bottles a day,Interesting to me:)
