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02-09-2023, 03:31 PM #1
That's a great one. My daughter and I looked at that one. We still try to read together but it's harder since she's in nursing school. She's 21 now but still lives at home so I try to make the most of those opportunities before they disappear. Plus she has that.... boyfriend ......that takes up her time. We like to read the classics. We started reading Treasure Island but haven't read from it for a while. Before that we read The Picture Of Dorian Grey. She likes all that Jane Austen and Bronte Sisters dribble and I like things Victor Hugo and John Steinbeck but we settle on classics somewhere in the middle.
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02-09-2023, 03:41 PM #2
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Thanked: 227I'm trying to flesh out the bookshelf with some classics to give my kids something to read as they get a older. The benefit is I get to read em first. Trying to choose which is next, treasure island, Frankenstein or hound of the baskervilles
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02-09-2023, 11:59 PM #3
Ah! Hound Of The Baskervilles is one of my favorites? I think my very favorite piece of fiction is a tie between 2 very different books: Of Mice And Men and Les Miserables. Although The Count Of Monte Cristo is right up there...as is The Man With The Twisted Lip... HELL, I could go on all night like this.
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02-10-2023, 02:17 AM #4
I'm not such a culture vulture as you Paul.
Ken Follett - Robin Cook and Stephen King at the moment I've also read Whispering To Cairo by Obie
I used to read Sven Hassel but I've outgrown him.
If you want an amazing read that you will re read at once a year.
Give Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett a try.- - Steve
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02-10-2023, 06:09 PM #5
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Thanked: 599After that, you'll want to read the sequels: World Without End and A Column of Fire
You can have everything, and still not have enough.
I'd give it all up, for just a little more.
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02-10-2023, 09:17 PM #6
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02-10-2023, 10:33 PM #7
Well, to my discredit (maybe) I still like to read Lloyd Alexander's The Chronicles Of Prydain again every so often. I read those 5 books probably three or four time when I was a teen and I still enjoy them. It's more nostalgia now than anything. I liked the other fantasy chronicles of the time too, Narnia, Lord Of The Rings and the Shannara Trilogy but I enjoyed the Prydain series more.
The Chronicles of Narnia I read more than once too but now though I read C.S.Lewis' apologetics books more.
I'm currently really stuck on Luther though. He was so brilliant and fun but sometimes challenging. He is similar to Einstein in that he could teach small children and also graduate students.Last edited by PaulFLUS; 02-10-2023 at 11:14 PM.
Iron by iron is sharpened, And a man sharpens the face of his friend. PR 27:17
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02-10-2023, 11:30 PM #8
I feel that if I have to read a book more than once to understand it the author didn't do their job.
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02-11-2023, 12:15 AM #9
I understood the chronicles fine. I just like the stories. Now the philosophy and theological writings are a different story. There's a lot of meat on the bone and lots of leftovers. Of course with Luther there's too much of it to read over and over if you plan to read any amount of it. The German and Latin version (Weimar Edition) is 127 volumes and not reader's digest size books. I think this is a complete set.
What's been translated into English is 79 volumes so far. I only have 23 of them so far.Iron by iron is sharpened, And a man sharpens the face of his friend. PR 27:17
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02-25-2023, 05:13 PM #10
Not sure I completely agree with that. It depends on the book and the reader. For most of my life every day has been a school day. I don't tend to reread fiction but there have certainly been books I've returned to.
We read Shakespeare when I was at school, coming back to it as an adult was not the same. At another extreme 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' was a different book the second time around.'Living the dream, one nightmare at a time'