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Post by Lord Newport on Oct 6, 2020 18:11:57 GMT
For those of you who "can" and "do" read REAL books, what are you currently reading and when you finish... come back and edit your post to tells us if it was worth reading and why.... For my part, I just opened "Churchill, Walking with Destiny" by Andrew Roberts. After President Teddy Roosevelt, Sir Winston Churchill is my next favorite military and political figure of the 20th century. This will be the third biography on Churchill I have read. I chose it because another Churchill fan recommended it. I usually alternate my reading pattern between biographies of historical persons with fiction (mysteries/sci-fi/apocalyptic). In short, serious/trashy /serious/trashy...
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Post by pgandy on Oct 6, 2020 18:32:40 GMT
"Bloody Blades of the British Empire" by D.A. Kinsley.
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Post by Jordan Williams on Oct 6, 2020 20:51:11 GMT
My list this year and next is 12 rules for life - JBP Conquest for Bread - Kropotkin Thus Spake Zarathustra - Yknow The Gulag Archipelago - Solzhenitsyn Either Or - Kierkegaard The Wealth of Nations - Smith
I've read a little of each of these so far, the Conquest for Bread I think is best read VERY critically, as it advocated for no private property based on some very silly ideas, Zarathustra is an incredibly hard read, as is The Gulag Archipelago but for different reasons.
Either Or is a good book, especially when paired with 12 Rules for Life.
I haven't read The Wealth of Nations yet.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2020 20:54:46 GMT
My list this year and next is 12 rules for life - JBP Conquest for Bread - Kropotkin Thus Spake Zarathustra - Yknow The Gulag Archipelago - Solzhenitsyn Either Or - Kierkegaard The Wealth of Nations - Smith I've read a little of each of these so far, the Conquest for Bread I think is best read VERY critically, as it advocated for no private property based on some very silly ideas, Zarathustra is an incredibly hard read, as is The Gulag Archipelago but for different reasons. Either Or is a good book, especially when paired with 12 Rules for Life. I haven't read The Wealth of Nations yet. I remember a graduate course I took a while back where I had to suffer through some truly painful seminars because no one read Wealth of Nations with much consideration, so we had nothing to discuss. For such a consequential book, it's amazing how you practically have to pull teeth to get people to read it. I think Smith is a fantastic writer for what it's worth, and that's saying something because there are some philosophers whose work I find almost unreadable. Strangely, it's the Scotsmen I find highly readable: Smith and Hume.
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Post by treeslicer on Oct 7, 2020 6:01:00 GMT
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Post by zabazagobo on Oct 7, 2020 6:45:25 GMT
.......?
"Real Books?"
I am jostling graduate and undergraduate students regularly, so please specify.
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Post by RufusScorpius on Oct 7, 2020 13:14:18 GMT
Books? For work or pleasure?
The last book I read for pleasure was "The Iliad". And it's no secret that I believe everybody should read it once a year.
For work, the book I'm working on now is "Basic Principles of Mechanized Track Maintenance" by Leon Zaayman. I'll let you know if it has good plot pacing and a satisfying ending....
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Post by Lord Newport on Oct 7, 2020 13:17:51 GMT
.......? "Real Books?" I am jostling graduate and undergraduate students regularly, so please specify. I should have specified ...old school physical books...not books on tape or online, the ones you can carry around with you and most importantly in my case, books that you can dog ear....
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Post by Dandelion on Oct 7, 2020 14:36:14 GMT
Always reading a lot of things at the same time; but main reading actually is "White Line Fever" from Janiss Garza - Lemmy Kilmisters biography.
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Post by Lord Newport on Oct 7, 2020 15:22:10 GMT
Always reading a lot of things at the same time; but main reading actually is "White Line Fever" from Janiss Garza - Lemmy Kilmisters biography. I spent a half day with him when he came down from LA to check out the WW2 German armor that I and my friends own. Interesting guy...Im not a fan of his music and in all honesty, had no idea who he was when I was told he wanted to check out our stuff and make a video. My friends said they all grew up on his music and were so starstruck ... lol Here is the video his people made that day...
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Post by treeslicer on Oct 7, 2020 21:29:30 GMT
.......? "Real Books?" I am jostling graduate and undergraduate students regularly, so please specify. I should have specified ...old school physical books...not books on tape or online, the ones you can carry around with you and most importantly in my case, books that you can dog ear.... Yeah, but there's such a ton of useful and interesting books online now, that I do a lot of my reading using downloads, and some real keepers I've dumped to a laser printer. It still requires genuine literacy as opposed to rotting your mind with television.
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Post by nerdthenord on Oct 13, 2020 15:28:43 GMT
“On Hyperion we find, final fate of human kind, and when all we know is gone, may our lord help us move on.”
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Post by seth on Oct 13, 2020 16:53:55 GMT
“On Hyperion we find, final fate of human kind, and when all we know is gone, may our lord help us move on.” Great books! He creates such interesting worlds. Highly recommend Simmons' Illium and Olympos too.
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Post by Curtis_Louis on Oct 13, 2020 18:34:07 GMT
Always reading a lot of things at the same time; but main reading actually is "White Line Fever" from Janiss Garza - Lemmy Kilmisters biography. I spent a half day with him when he came down from LA to check out the WW2 German armor that I and my friends own. Interesting guy...Im not a fan of his music and in all honesty, had no idea who he was when I was told he wanted to check out our stuff and make a video. My friends said they all grew up on his music and were so starstruck ... lol Here is the video his people made that day... It gives me a chuckle that a guy with a tank collection is not a Motorhead fan and wasn't familiar with Lemmy. I guess I imagine someone with a tank rolling around blasting Orgasmatron to "11" with a sh*t eatin' grin from ear to ear, pissing off all the neighbors. Inquiring minds want to know... what do you listen to while tooling around town?
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Post by treeslicer on Oct 13, 2020 18:56:24 GMT
I spent a half day with him when he came down from LA to check out the WW2 German armor that I and my friends own. Interesting guy...Im not a fan of his music and in all honesty, had no idea who he was when I was told he wanted to check out our stuff and make a video. My friends said they all grew up on his music and were so starstruck ... lol Here is the video his people made that day... Inquiring minds want to know... what do you listen to while tooling around town? Stuff like this:
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Post by RaylonTheDemented on Oct 13, 2020 19:04:24 GMT
Having a re-read one of my favorite Sci-fi novel, Blindsight from Peter Watts, that now got its own short movie.
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Post by Lord Newport on Oct 13, 2020 19:21:09 GMT
It gives me a chuckle that a guy with a tank collection is not a Motorhead fan and wasn't familiar with Lemmy. I guess I imagine someone with a tank rolling around blasting Orgasmatron to "11" with a sh*t eatin' grin from ear to ear, pissing off all the neighbors. Inquiring minds want to know... what do you listen to while tooling around town? I like to listen to; conservative talk radio, current pop rock/music, Bosa Nova jazz, American folk music from the 60's, classic rock from the 70's/80's 90's, baroque chamber music. I am already a very stressed out, tightly wound type A personality...Motorhead, metal, punk etc...is the last thing I need.
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Post by MOK on Oct 13, 2020 20:16:41 GMT
Motörhead, Arch Enemy etc. actually help me wind down. No joke.
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Post by Lord Newport on Oct 13, 2020 21:47:15 GMT
Motörhead, Arch Enemy etc. actually help me wind down. No joke. When it comes to personal preferences I don't judge.
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Post by bradc on Oct 14, 2020 2:57:09 GMT
Inspired by the show (which is really well done). I just picked up the first book of the Expanse series. Enjoying it so far.
I have pretty eclectic taste in books so I jump genres quite often. Hard sci fi is always fun though.
I too have been known to wind down to some heavier music... I was just listening to the albums from Metalocalypse (If you like metal and have not watched the series do it now!) while grading exams today.
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