christain
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Post by christain on Oct 26, 2017 20:51:05 GMT
The first 'grown-up' book I ever read was Erik Von Daniken's (sp?) 'Chariots of the Gods'. Pretty hefty stuff for a 12 year old, but I've been reading books on ancient mysteries(the pyramids, ancient civilizations, Atlantis, etc.) ever since. Now, that stuff is all on-line and I just watch videos on youtube. I need to turn some paper again. Nothing helps me get to sleep better than going to bed with a book. .....Chris
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christain
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Post by christain on Oct 26, 2017 22:49:47 GMT
Yeah....I guess I understood most of it when I first read it. It wasn't until re-reading it a few years later that I got the full effect of it. Erik mostly asked questions. Any actual facts he presented were pretty well researched, I think. And---yes---there are some real doozies out there when it comes to conspiracy theories, government cover-ups, and the whole genre in general. I laugh at most of them. I am, however, currently quite interested in the possible release of the 'Kennedy papers'. That could be reeeeeally interesting. .....Chris
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Post by Jordan Williams on Oct 27, 2017 3:01:34 GMT
I personally just finished one Dr. Seuss's novel, "Cat in the Hat", a step up from the previous "One Fish Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish", very sophisticated.
In all seriousness, I've been reading D.A. Kingsleys Book "The Swordsman Of The British Empire" and it's been really eye opening to just how brutal war was.
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Post by legacyofthesword on Oct 27, 2017 4:14:32 GMT
In all seriousness, I've been reading D.A. Kingsleys Book "The Swordsman Of The British Empire" and it's been really eye opening to just how brutal war was. I'm currently reading that one too. What I find most interesting is how much Victorian society, which we tend to think of as very refined and moralistic, was, in certain areas, almost Norse in it's love of war. At least many of the military men were: you can just feel it in the way they write about battles and combat. Some of them really seemed to enjoy it - there's very little of the modern horror of war.
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