Thread: What are You Reading?

I checked out two books from the Harvard Classics, or the"Five Foot Shelf" series. The first book I started is a selection of American historical readings in chronological order from the dicovery of the new world to the Declaration of Independence to the Gettysburg address to the treaty clising the Spanish-American war. The second book is Two Years Before the Mast. In the early 1800s a college student signs on up for two years at sea to improve his health after having measles. The book is a factual account of the author's two years at sea, based on his diary, of the life of an ordinary seaman.

"Two Years Before the Mast." this one sounds good to me, if you like it, then let me know, please.

I read "The Broken Sword" by Poul Anderson earlier, and I really liked it (fantasy, as an alternative to Lord of the Rings which I love, and Song of Ice and Fire which I could never get into except on TV). So now I am checking out other Poul Anderson books.

I'm about halfway through Two Years Before the Mast. The books is a bit of a slow read but it has been worth the time investment so far-descriptions of California, daily life aboard a ship, occasional poetic passages, and tyranny. This book is a Volume from the Five Foot Bookshelf.

The collection includes several plays. It occurred to me that instead of reading the plays I should see them performed. So, I have been checking them out at the library. I watched the first half of Shakespeare's The Tempest last night and have already watched Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and Sophicle's Antigonne. The two English plays were performed at the Globe in London, which I think is modeled on the original theater.

This morning I saw a preview for a new movie production based on Murder on the Orient Express. It looks like it was made by Ridley Scott. Im intrigued.

Got a technical interview this week. So currently reading python crash course. With a couple more lined up before Friday....

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I just started on Astrophysics for People in a Hurry. There's a fair amount
of terminology, which is to be expected, but very well written.

Its not a textbook, and its very interesting.

Originally Posted by PaulKidd

I just started on Astrophysics for People in a Hurry. There's a fair amount
of terminology, which is to be expected, but very well written.

Its not a textbook, and its very interesting.

I could be in for reading that.... I'm starting an open uni physics degree in January.

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Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche

It's not exactly a fast read.

Fleeing ISIS Finding Jesus by Charles Morris. Great book

1949 repair manual for a 1947 Remington Rand Model KMC typewriter I inherited from my father in law.