FilbertFlan29 Posted November 27, 2009 Share Posted November 27, 2009 Just finished Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything. Incredible read... recommend it to everyone. Starting Running Recon by John Plaster. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sirchris Posted November 29, 2009 Share Posted November 29, 2009 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BlackSummerSide Posted December 3, 2009 Share Posted December 3, 2009 Right now I'm reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, in Swedish. I first reed it in English because I've never read a Harry Potter book in English before! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Spalove Posted January 3, 2010 Share Posted January 3, 2010 The Bible murder, adultery, incest Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sirchris Posted January 13, 2010 Share Posted January 13, 2010 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Conneyfogle Posted January 13, 2010 Share Posted January 13, 2010 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Deborah J Posted January 13, 2010 Share Posted January 13, 2010 Half way through When Giants Walked The Earth Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BIGDAN Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 Half way through When Giants Walked The Earth Hi Debs, That's a "Tall Order" and must be "Very Heavy Reading" I'm reading 5 books on Aromatherapy, i need pain relief without strong drugs, and its working. Regards, Danny Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BIGDAN Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 After all closed in proper defences stopped the massed Zulu attacks at Rorke's Drift and Khambula Hi Mangani, What about Ulundi, we kicked their arses that day alright. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ulundi Regards, Danny Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Atlas Posted September 19, 2010 Share Posted September 19, 2010 http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MMAharaja Posted September 19, 2010 Share Posted September 19, 2010 (edited) Coming in at over 600 pages, it's quite a tome. It's pretty good. I think it's slightly overrated though. Edited September 19, 2010 by MMAharaja Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Conneyfogle Posted September 19, 2010 Share Posted September 19, 2010 I'm on this at the mo, sent to me from Canada from an FB friend Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kayte Posted September 19, 2010 Share Posted September 19, 2010 Lionel Lincoln, by James Fenimore Cooper (the guy who wrote Last of the Mohicans) Google Books is chock-full of all kindsa weird stuff... I'm also finishing a 2,300-page book called My Secret Life, by Walter: The sex diary of a Victorian gentleman. Highly recommend it, although he uses the word "c*nt" about 5,300 times. I hate that word! The whole text is here: http://www.my-secret-life.com/, but I'd recommend looking for it in print, or you'll go blind. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
silvermedalist Posted September 19, 2010 Share Posted September 19, 2010 The Sleep Book by Dr Seuss:o Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Electrophile Posted September 19, 2010 Share Posted September 19, 2010 1984......for probably the 100th time. I never get sick of that book. Ever. Before that, I just finished The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. Yay for unsanitary Chicago slaughterhouses and meat-packing plants! (no seriously, that's what the book exposed) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
alinds Posted September 20, 2010 Share Posted September 20, 2010 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TypeO Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 Been on a Dune kick. Over the past 5 or 6 weeks, I (in order) re-read Heretics of Dune (5th of original 6 books) and Chapterhouse: Dune (6th of original 6 books). Went looking for Hunters of Dune and Sandworms of Dune (written by Frank Herbert's son, Brian Herbert, supposedly finishing the story after Frank Herbert's death). Couldn't find them, so I re-read God-Emperor of Dune (4th of original 6 books) and then Dune Messiah (2nd of original 6 books). Decided to get Hunters and Sandworms from the library, suffered through them both, and now re-reading Children of Dune (3rd of original 6 books) to "cleanse my palate" after the horrible aftertaste that Brian Herbert left. For true fans, the crap Brian Herbert has written is shamefully pathetic and unbearably disappointing. It's depressing to even think about. And yes, if you followed all that, I have re-read all but the original/first book of the series, Dune itself. I'm sure I'll reach for it at some point in the next couple days as soon as I finish Children of Dune. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
silvermedalist Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 1984......for probably the 100th time. I never get sick of that book. Ever. Before that, I just finished The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. Yay for unsanitary Chicago slaughterhouses and meat-packing plants! (no seriously, that's what the book exposed) Who hasn't read 1984. The only thing he had wrong was the year. He was a bit early, Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Electrophile Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 (edited) You know how I know you've never read the book? Orwell was basically transposing what was going on in the Soviet Union at the time, to this fictional place called Oceania in "1984" , although knowing what we do about how time and even basic facts like what 2+2 was could be manipulated, the actual date of when the book was set was nebulous at best. The way he describes Big Brother was exactly how Stalin looked. The way he talked about how people were "vaporized" and made to appear to have never existed at all, was something Stalin was known to do, even down to the airbrushing or removing of people from photographs once they fell out of favor with him or the party. Communism was something that Orwell wrote a bit about, see also Animal Farm. Maybe the book was his way of expressing a fear that Soviet domination of the Eastern bloc would extend out to western Europe, including Britain. I don't know. It's a rather interesting read, purely from a historical context, if you keep the time he wrote it in mind. So I don't know what the hell you're talking about. The United States has not been plunged into some Orwellian dystopia. Edited September 21, 2010 by Electrophile Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Atlas Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 You know how I know you've never read the book? Orwell was basically transposing what was going on in the Soviet Union at the time, to this fictional place called Oceania in "1984" Really? Sure he wasn't aiming closer to home? Read the introductory chapter of Grundlagen zur Zeitgeschichte by Germar Rudolf. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
manderlyh Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 Currently, I'm reading many things that I've read before, as I'm teaching not one, not two, but FOUR separate English classes. The novel I'm reading is Grendel by John Gardner. Love it! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Virginia Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 "Bubbles in Trouble" by Sarah Strohmeyer. Bubbles is kind of like Stephanie Plum (Janet Evanovich); one of those mysteries where you laugh out loud. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
redrum Posted September 21, 2010 Share Posted September 21, 2010 'Christ Stopped At Eboli' by Carlo Levi He was a political prisoner under Mussolini in 1935. I'll be ordering 'The Friends Of Eddie Coyle' by George Higgins. It's a classic crime movie with Robert Mitchum and Peter Boyle (1973) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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