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    Just finished a book titled "Younger Next Year" by Crowley and Lodge. Awesome read for us old guys and you youngsters as well with some great stuff on keeping fit and enjoying life more as we get older. Definitely a recommended read.

    So, what are you Reading?

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    I'm reading 'History of the world through 100 objects'. It's a great book, written by the director of the British Museum. The objects themselves are interesting, but moreso is the way the author looks at the thinking behind them and what it meant for us and those that came before us.
    Amazon.com: A History of the World in 100 Objects (9780670022700): Neil MacGregor: Books

    Apparently there was a series on it, but I haven't caught that.
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    Thanks to both of you for your reading suggestions. I'll have to check out both of those texts.

    As for me, I just began reading Rawn James, Jr., Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall and the Struggle to End Segregation.
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    Last week I was revisiting some of my favorite chapters from The Arabian Nights. I was just thinking this morning about resuming my effort to read more from the Harvard Bookshelf. I don't own the collection so have been finding the titles separately.

    I thought some background information on the Harvard Bookshelf would be appropriate. Apparently a Harvard professor once made the claim that a man could receive the equivilant of a liberal arts degree by reading a selection of important works that would fit on a 5 foot bookshelf. A publisher challenged the professor to compile a list of titles. The collection was published with a forward to each title by the professor about that specific work and how to read it. I think there were around 50 volumes in the collection, with multiple titles per volume. The Harvard bookshelf was very popular in its day.
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    I'm actually trying to figure out what to read next. I just finished Stephen King's "11-22-63" the other night, and don't know if I want to move on to another of his books or switch gears a bit.

    Good thread, Lynn!
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    Quote Originally Posted by crouton976 View Post
    I'm actually trying to figure out what to read next. I just finished Stephen King's "11-22-63" the other night, and don't know if I want to move on to another of his books or switch gears a bit.

    Good thread, Lynn!
    i generally find reading two books by the same author consecutively problematic, unless the books are quite different, whereas watching a tv series on dvd is good because you notice all of the little bits and bobs that the producers and directors hide in the various episodes, i usually end up with series that get sropped after 2 seasons, except lost which was completely dissapointing at the end, i wish i had been left in suspense.
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    Darth, I have read a lot of L'Amour books. I always found his longer books to be much better than the short stuff. Last of the Breed, The Lonesome Gods, The Walking Drum, Jubal Sackett are some of his best works.
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    "Helmut for My Pillow" by Robert Leckie ; a book about the Pacific island battles during WW II.
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    I'm reading Greg Iles, footprint of God.

    Iles has provided me with quite a few "easy summer reads" the last couple of years.

    Not exactly masterpieces, but decent crime nonetheless
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    Um, all of them, any of them that have been in front of me over all these years....


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    Hmmm i read the back of the Cereal box every moring dose this count?
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