What book are you reading now

[logroller]

Not only do I consider myself an Introvert, but have tested to be one more than once.

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Ironic you'd divulge such information.

Im currently reading road to nowhere, by Howard Kunster. It's required reading though. I hate it. It's the second book I've read by him, the long emergency being the first. I can only take so much self-loathing before I feel the need to say fuckit, if I'm going down, I'll do so in excess.

[Wind Song]

The Snowman by Jo Nesbo

The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon

[Wind Song]

The Litigators by John Grisham

[Trigg]

my son is reading

A child called IT. non-fiction

it's a story about child abuse, sad.

[Nukeman]

"Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA" by Tim WeinerRead that one.. Kind of pathetic when you think about it!!!! Just saying

[cadet]

"The House of Chains"
The malazan book of the fallen series,
-Steven Erikson.

[Wind Song]

How to LIVE: A Search for Wisdom from Old People by Henry Alford.

[Wind Song]

A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

[Wind Song]

Why You Should Give a Damn About Gay Marriage by Davina Kotulski, PHD

[tailfins]

C# 2010 for Programmers (4th Edition) (Deitel Developer Series) by Paul J. Deitel , Harvey M. Deitel

[revelarts]

Classified Woman-The Sibel Edmonds Story: A Memoir


"the most gagged women in American legal history"


In this startling new memoir, Sibel Edmonds—the most classified woman in U.S. history—takes us on a surreal journey that begins with the secretive FBI and down the dark halls of a feckless Congress to a stonewalling judiciary and finally, to the national security whistleblowers movement she spearheaded. Having lived under Middle East dictatorships, Edmonds knows firsthand what can happen when government is allowed to operate in secret. Hers is a sobering perspective that combines painful experience with a rallying cry for the public’s right to know and to hold the lawbreakers accountable. With U.S. citizens increasingly stripped of their rights in a calibrated media blackout, Edmonds’ story is a wake-up call for all Americans who, willingly or unwillingly, traded liberty for illusive security in the wake of 9/11.

I've just started it. She's a remarkable patriot, been following her ordeal for years from her 1st brief 60 minutes appearance, trying to expose spies in the FBI, odd 9-11 connections, traded nuke secrets and the bribery of a few Congress people. Mostly alternative media have covered her story. I've heard interviews with her over the years and witnessed her transformation from someone who had real faith in the reality the U.S. constitutional system to self correct to someone who now see that her rosy picture was an just of a facade and that our federal system is terribly if not fatally corrupted.

[ConHog]

Classified Woman-The Sibel Edmonds Story: A Memoir


"the most gagged women in American legal history"



I've just started it. She's a remarkable patriot, been following her ordeal for years from her 1st brief 60 minutes appearance, trying to expose spies in the FBI, odd 9-11 connections, traded nuke secrets and the bribery of a few Congress people. Mostly alternative media have covered her story. I've heard interviews with her over the years and witnessed her transformation from someone who had real faith in the reality the U.S. constitutional system to self correct to someone who now see that her rosy picture was an just of a facade and that our federal system is terribly if not fatally corrupted.

Sounds like a porn, I'll wait for the movie.

[Wind Song]

Believing the Lie by Elizabeth George.

[Toro]

Sounds like a porn, I'll wait for the movie.

rofl

[revelarts]

Classified Woman-The Sibel Edmonds Story: A Memoir


"the most gagged women in American legal history"



I've just started it. She's a remarkable patriot, been following her ordeal for years from her 1st brief 60 minutes appearance, trying to expose spies in the FBI, odd 9-11 connections, traded nuke secrets and the bribery of a few Congress people. Mostly alternative media have covered her story. I've heard interviews with her over the years and witnessed her transformation from someone who had real faith in the reality the U.S. constitutional system to self correct to someone who now see that her rosy picture was an just of a facade and that our federal system is terribly if not fatally corrupted.

Just fished the 1st hundred pages.
UH... I knew the outline of her story but ... Unholy crap... I've never imagined the level of incompetents, nepotism, wholesale spying and 3 dimensional C.Y.A. activity that that she walked into in the translation dept which spiraled outward to the rest of the FBI. truly horrific.

Probably the biggest issue I've read here so far is that She and 4 other translators had personally heard the warnings of 9-11in early 2001 from Iranian informants, Pakistani informants, the French, and others and that after the fact the records of those warnings where put in storage never to be mentioned because the executive FBI and WH policy was that those warnings never happened. "we could not have known they were gong to fly airplanes into buildings" riiiight...they knew exactly that. But the full reports never made it to the 9-11 commission or the subsequent congressional hearings.

She names names in this as well, if shes lying shes got jail time coming for libel.
She may end up in jail with Bradly manning more likey, jezz Lousie it's terrible.

[Nell's Room]

I'm making my way through 'Cross Country' by James Patterson. I'm enjoying it, but its just not engaging me as much as his other novels.

[revelarts]

Just fished the 1st hundred pages.
UH... I knew the outline of her story but ... Unholy crap... I've never imagined the level of incompetents, nepotism, wholesale spying and 3 dimensional C.Y.A. activity that that she walked into in the translation dept which spiraled outward to the rest of the FBI. truly horrific.

Probably the biggest issue I've read here so far is that She and 4 other translators had personally heard the warnings of 9-11in early 2001 from Iranian informants, Pakistani informants, the French, and others and that after the fact the records of those warnings where put in storage never to be mentioned because the executive FBI and WH policy was that those warnings never happened. "we could not have known they were gong to fly airplanes into buildings" riiiight...they knew exactly that. But the full reports never made it to the 9-11 commission or the subsequent congressional hearings.

She names names in this as well, if shes lying shes got jail time coming for libel.
She may end up in jail with Bradly manning more likey, jezz Lousie it's terrible.

I want to say a lot here but, I'll leave it at this,
I highly recommend this book.

[WiccanLiberal]

As usual I am reading several books at the same time. At home I am reading Einstein: His Life and Universe. On the train to and from work I carry my Nook so I am reading a volume of classics, presently Emma. Also on the Nook, a silly romance called Bear Meets Girl. That doesn't count the bathroom library and this months National Geographic.

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

Currently I am reading three books , Lives of Hancock and English by John W. Forney 1880 edition , The Autobiography of Franklin by John Bigelow 1868 edition and A Journey to India 1921-1922 by Albert Farewell Bemis private printing Boston 1923. All from my library. This year I am only reading books from my collection that I havent read before or else read over 30 years ago. I usually do 3 or 4 at a time. Lately, I've been a bit slack because of my health issues and my plunge back into playing more chess games via internet correspondence sites... Of course I read daily an hour or so of chess developements and studying old games..--Tyr

[Nell's Room]

Reading The Taking Of Pelham 123 by John Godey. Its addictive. I've seen the movie (not the recent one, or the old one, but the one in between) an loved it, and the book is also amazing.

[Noir]

My current recently read/to read shelf. (minus 'Storm of swords, Part two' as my gfs taken that). Trying to pace myself at one book per week with two weeks for 'Song of ice and fire' books, 21 down, 15 to go. Currenlty on book two of 'The Hunger Games'.

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j176/jonathan-mcc/reading.jpg

[mundame]

Whoa, that's a very exciting bookshelf, Noir. You're a reader, clearly.

I am switching to ebooks and audiobooks, but so many older books, histories, texts one can't get that way yet, so I have "the stack," always in danger during vacuuming.

I started the Game of Thrones disks and want to work thru them before reading: clearly cutting-edge video, like LOST or Primeval. People say the books are even better, so I got a four-volume set for ebooks.

But ironically, I am just finishing "Codex" on audiobook after reading 3x as an codex..... by Lev Grossman. That's his first novel, and he went on to the two blockbuster Magicians books, really great.

"Codex" is a joy, for gamers, for book lovers, and for fantasy readers. If you look at the gazumpteen reviews, you see that it is like Joe Hill's "Heart-Shaped Box" --- "I love it!" alternates one on one with "I hated it!" These are the best books, I've found, for me at least, because it means they are difficult, subtle, with lots of demand on the reader ---- and lots of reward. But many people looking for an easy read can't hack them, somehow. I thought this time through that "Codex" was simply set in Grossman's magic world of the next two books, and that was its secret, its mystery. Not so, though, it is wholly self-contained and the mystery makes perfect sense in the end and isn't about magic. At least in the audio version............I need to recheck the codex of Codex before I write a review, though. I think there may be a bit at the end that throws it all up in the air, literally. Pages, flying into the air.

[Noir]

Got my first 1st edition 1st impression set =D (only 22 years old, but still)

Not really worth its on thread so i'll just post 'em here

Tolkiens Siilmarillin, Hobbit, and Lord of the Rings
http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j176/jonathan-mcc/LOTR.jpg

[Abbey Marie]

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[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

Started this month reading , RIENZI-THE LAST OF THE ROMAN TRIBUNES by Edward Bulwer Lytton ,
Charles Scribner's Sons New York 1902

Starting next month on Irving's Works, The Life and Letters , Vol.2 by his nephew Pierre M. Irving 1869
New York G.P. Putnam's Sons

My time for reading has been greatly diminished but I do try to read a few new books and even often reread books that I read when first collected 30 to 40 years ago. Were it not for my time here at this forum and my time on my chess games I could read as much as I once did but now life, family duties and new distractions have broken my reading discipline and I HAVENT YET FORCED ITS RETURN!-Tyr

[WiccanLiberal]

Been revisiting the classics. I downloaded collections of classic novels and biographies for major cheap when I got my Nook. Currently working my way through Dostoevsky's The Idiot. However, at home I still prefer paper and have a biography of Einstein. My TBR shelf is still loaded. Not sure what I want to tackle from there next.

[hjmick]

First Blood by David Morrell

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

Been revisiting the classics. I downloaded collections of classic novels and biographies for major cheap when I got my Nook. Currently working my way through Dostoevsky's The Idiot. However, at home I still prefer paper and have a biography of Einstein. My TBR shelf is still loaded. Not sure what I want to tackle from there next.

I made another book collecting pilgrimage early last week and found a few real gems. My problem is that I spend too much time on the comp to do my reading. Its been suffering greatly ever since I joined this and two other message boards recently. One of the books , AN ANTHOLOGY OF MYSTICISM AND MYSTICAL PHILOSOPHY-Author ,William Kingsland , 1st edition 1927 I started reading yesterday. Usually I read a book twice a day until its completed, once early morning and once late night but that too has been changed. I have to force myself back into my regular decades old regime. -Tyr

[Shadow]

I made another book collecting pilgrimage early last week and found a few real gems. My problem is that I spend too much time on the comp to do my reading. Its been suffering greatly ever since I joined this and two other message boards recently. One of the books , AN ANTHOLOGY OF MYSTICISM AND MYSTICAL PHILOSOPHY-Author ,William Kingsland , 1st edition 1927 I started reading yesterday. Usually I read a book twice a day until its completed, once early morning and once late night but that too has been changed. I have to force myself back into my regular decades old regime. -Tyr

I have the same problem. After I get home from work,run errands/Kids around...make dinner....the only energy I have left is playing around online for a little while and listening to music. If I try to sit/lay down to read a book or watch TV...I usually end up passed out asleep.

I haven't really read anything book related lately...just news articles...but I did buy my daughter 'Phantom Of the Opera' for her birthday since she seems to be getting into more of the classics. She was shocked. Said..."I'm glad you bought this book for me...it's my friends favorite movie and she has been bugging me to watch it". :)

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

I have the same problem. After I get home from work,run errands/Kids around...make dinner....the only energy I have left is playing around online for a little while and listening to music. If I try to sit/lay down to read a book or watch TV...I usually end up passed out asleep.

I haven't really read anything book related lately...just news articles...but I did buy my daughter 'Phantom Of the Opera' for her birthday since she seems to be getting into more of the classics. She was shocked. Said..."I'm glad you bought this book for me...it's my friends favorite movie and she has been bugging me to watch it". :)

If only God had made 30 hours to a day!!!!--;)--Tyr

[aboutime]

My wife discovered a book I've had for more than ten years as she was cleaning our bedroom closet. So I guess I now have something else to take me away from the keyboard more often.
It's called "Rediscovering American Values" (Foundations of our Freedom for the 21st Century) By Dick DeVos.
DeVos is the former CEO and co-founder of AMWAY corp.

It really has a lot of information that more than applies to today's political, and economic World.

[Gaffer]

First Blood by David Morrell

Read that back in the 70's when it came out. It's a good one, and nothing like the movie.

[hjmick]

Read that back in the 70's when it came out. It's a good one, and nothing like the movie.

Definitely not like the movie.

It's been sitting on my shelf for a few years. My dad picked it up for me at a book signing Morrell had and I just hadn't gotten around to reading until now.

I've read quite a few of his books and they're very good, he's tad arrogant (went to one of his signings myself) but a good writer.

[jafar00]

I'm reading Surat Al Yaseen from the Qur'aan. During the month of Ramadan, Muslims are supposed to read the Qur'aan from beginning to end.

[Noir]

New books! Was able to get the set of four for £25, when really they sbould of been about £20/25 each, bless second hand bookshops =D

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[WiccanLiberal]

I'm currently tackling Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander, the first of his Aubrey/Maturin Novels and the partial basis for the movie. Other later novels have more elements. V4R is engaged in S.M.Stirling's The Tears of the Sun. If any of you have not read Dies the Fire and it's sequels please do. I have read that NBC is doing a new TV series called Revolution. It sounds like a complete rip-off of Stirling's universe except that network bigshots obviously believed the pagan influence permeating Stirling's post-apocalyptic world wouldn't play in Iowa. For sure they couldn't have the witchy folk be the good guys. Only funny thing is the book V4R is into is on my Nook. I know now I have to get him one for his birthday next month. Then I can just loan him the copy from mine.

[Abbey Marie]

The Borgias: Two Novels in One Volume
by Jean Plaidy
I am always fascinated by the Popes from a long time ago. They certainly led "interesting" lives.

[Nukeman]

Mistborn trilogy by Branden Sanderson

[Robert A Whit]

Some of you may know of this scientist that loves cooking. He published a full 5 volumn set that goes into full details as to what cooking is, what it does and has recipies.

I watched a program on PBS so if anybody is interested in the science of cooking, you might want to check it out.

I know he has been on some major shows such as Jimmy Kimmel and I think Jay Leno.

Martha Stewart had him on and claims she is a huge fan of his books.

In that one hour, I learned a lot about cooking science that I did not know about.

I will see if I can get the title to anybody that wants it. I expect his books are not cheap. He did say he has a home edition though that I hope is cheaper.

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

Currently I am down to reading only two books, Ishi by Theodora Kroeber
and The Purple Land by W.H. Hudson. --Tyr

[Robert A Whit]

the title of the book is

The science of cooking

I located it on Amazon but won't post it since I am not trying to advertise and besides the book is available all over. I won't post the author but you can figure it out.

Check out the reviews.

[aboutime]

Waiting for my copy of KILLING LINCOLN.

[CSM]

Currently reading "James Madison: A Biography" by Ralph Ketcham. Very interesting.

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

Sons of the Yellow Emperor, A history of the Chinese Diaspora by Lynn Pan, 1990 first U.S. edition.
Quite simply fascinating and well written.

[darin]

Proof of Heaven - Eben Alexander



A highly trained neurosurgeon who had operated on thousands of brains in the course of his career, Alexander knew that what people of faith call the “soul” is really a product of brain chemistry. NDEs, he would have been the first to explain, might feel real to the people having them, but in truth they are simply fantasies produced by brains under extreme stress.

Then came the day when Dr. Alexander’s own brain was attacked by an extremely rare illness. The part of the brain that controls thought and emotion—and in essence makes us human— shut down completely. For seven days Alexander lay in a hospital bed in a deep coma. Then, as his doctors weighed the possibility of stopping treatment, Alexander’s eyes popped open. He had come back.
Alexander’s recovery is by all accounts a medical miracle. But the real miracle of his story lies elsewhere. While his body lay in coma, Alexander journeyed beyond this world and encountered an angelic being who guided him into the deepest realms of super-physical existence. There he met, and spoke with, the Divine source of the universe itself.

[revelarts]

The Plan of Salvation
By Benjamin B. Warfield
1914


..."There are fundamentally only two doctrines of salvation: that salvation is from God, and that salvation is from ourselves." This is pretty much Warfield's passion in this book. It is written by an intellectual zealot for the Christian faith and the Reformed Tradition. Warfield's erudition may mean that his modern readers get stretched a bit, but if you want to understand how the various denominational distinctive views on salvation are fundamentally to be understood, this book is where to start.

The book is based on a series of lectures, as with Kuyper's Stone Lectures on Calvinism, and are therefore oriented toward an audience inclined to systematic study. The language on the whole is accessible and not overly technical. The lecture format gives the material a "bite-sized" nature which allows for reading in segments rather than having to carry a theme through the whole. All in all, this book will become indispensable to anyone who cares about the doctrines of salvation and needs grounding for their own understanding or for presenting it to others....

[Gaffer]

Under the Dome by Steven King.

[tailfins]

http://www.amazon.com/Life-Code-Dr-Phil-McGraw/dp/0985462736/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1355251359&sr=8-1&keywords=Life+Code


“I call these people BAITERs: Back stabbers, abusers, imposters, takers, exploiters and reckless,” Dr. Phil says. “They are people that will sell a patient fake medicine and are just being reckless with life itself.”



“One of the things I want to do is teach people how to spot these folks coming and how to understand specifically how they do what they do,” Dr. Phil says.

Detect a BAITER by noticing these telling characteristics:


The Evil 8

1. See the world through a lens of entitlement.
2. Lack of empathy.
3. Incapable of feeling remorse or guilt.
4. Self-destructive behavior.
5. Feed off drama and crises.
6. Try to brag and outsmart you.
7. Have short-lived relationships.
8. Have delusions.

The Nefarious 15
1. They infiltrate your life with promises and flattery.
2. Define you as a conspiratorial confidant.
3. Are focused on getting your approval.
4. They gather data to build a file on you.
5. Misdirect and maintain a mystery about who they really are.
6. Constantly blame others when confronted.
7. They will lie to the point of destruction.
8. Tendency to cheat and steal.
9. Isolate their victims to foster dependency.
10. Abuse positions of power.
11. Know your hot buttons to gain leverage.
12. Selective memory.
13. Two-faced: Spread lies and gossip.
14. Paranoid.
15. Passive aggressive.

[Nukeman]

Just received my copy of "A memory fo Light" the 14th and final installment of The Wheel of Time series started by Robert Jordan (James Rigney) and finished by Braden Sanderson. I have been waiting over 20 years for this epic tale to come to a conclusion. I have mixed feelings of not getting a new book to read vs seeing the end of the story....:rolleyes:

[mundame]

Currently I am down to reading only two books, Ishi by Theodora Kroeber
and The Purple Land by W.H. Hudson. --Tyr

Ishi! I remember the cover of that book well because my stepmother was always trying to get me to read it. But I never did; don't know what it's about.


I'm reading "Citizens," by Schama, a history of the French Revolution that came out in the bicentennial year. (1789--1989) I'm making a whole study of the French Revolution, and it's verrrrrrrrry instructive about things going on now here. They guillotined well over 10,000 people, catching the heads in large wicker baskets day after day. Once mob terror starts, it takes an effective strongman dictator (Napoleon) to stop it.

I want to read the new novel "Pure" as soon as I get up to Bastille Day in the histories -- it's about a young engineer who comes to Paris before the Revolution, hired to move all the thousands of corpses from the cemetery of Les Innocents, where they had grossly polluted the whole area, to a seriously disgusting point that had to be dealt with. He did that and dumped them into a gravel quarry where they still are, a tourist attraction today. He gets caught up in the Revolution, of course, that's the relevance. And getting rid of the old, polluting bodies is a metaphor or symbol for the French getting rid of the Old Regime and ushering in modernity.

[WiccanLiberal]

Just finished Team of Rivals, the biography of Lincoln that was the partial basis of the recent movie. It was excellent. It approaches the Lincoln presidency from an interesting perspective, exploring the relationships that made his Cabinet work. The author depicts a much more politically savvy manager than is often the case with Lincoln biographers. Also hit the local library and borrowed a James Patterson. I am trying to catch up on his Alex Cross novels.

[WiccanLiberal]

BTW, my library also has electronic borrowing so I can load stuff on my Nook for my train ride reading. Double win. Patronize and support your local public library - one of the nation's great resources.

[mundame]

Is anyone else getting addicted to audiobooks? Amazon bought Audible and they have an ever-increasing catalog of books read by professional readers or performers. I'm listening to "I Am Not a Serial Killer," a young adult boy's book, and a course on science fiction, and Candide to go to sleep by and I want to listen to next "Defending Jacob," a novel by Landay about a father and attorney whose son keeps getting accused of being a mass murderer or serial killer and he keeps believing he isn't and defending him.

[revelarts]

Love Audio Books,
I get a lot more "reading" done by them.
Just Re-listen to
"do as I say" not as i do
http://www.audible.com/pd/ref=sr_1_1?asin=B002V0JRQU&qid=1358697309&sr=1-1


an audio sample is there as well.
It's a GREAT expose of Left leaders hypocrisy. I wish there was sequel for the right. But the 1st chapter makes some great point even before getting into the meat.

Publisher's Summary

Members of the liberal/left exude an air of moral certitude. They pride themselves on being committed and selfless and seem particularly confident of the purity of their motives and the evil nature of their opponents. To correct economic and social injustice, liberals support a whole litany of policies and principles: progressive taxes, affirmative action, greater regulation of corporations, raising the inheritance tax, strict environmental regulations, children's rights, consumer rights, and more.But do they actually live by these beliefs? Peter Schweizer decided to investigate in depth the private lives of prominent liberals. What he found was a long list of contradictions.
Schweizer's conclusion is simple: liberalism in the end forces its adherents to become hypocrites. They adopt one pose in public, but when it comes to what matters most in their own lives, they jettison their liberal principles and adopt conservative ones. Schweizer's book thus exposes the contradiction at the core of liberalism: If these ideas don't work for the very individuals who promote them, how can they work for the country?
©2005 Peter Schweizer; (P)2005 Random House, Inc.



What the Critics Say

"An entertaining exposure of the hypocrisy among some prominent liberals....Schweizer reveals that the most vocal liberals do not practice what they preach." (The Weekly Standard)

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

Ishi! I remember the cover of that book well because my stepmother was always trying to get me to read it. But I never did; don't know what it's about.


I'm reading "Citizens," by Schama, a history of the French Revolution that came out in the bicentennial year. (1789--1989) I'm making a whole study of the French Revolution, and it's verrrrrrrrry instructive about things going on now here. They guillotined well over 10,000 people, catching the heads in large wicker baskets day after day. Once mob terror starts, it takes an effective strongman dictator (Napoleon) to stop it.

I want to read the new novel "Pure" as soon as I get up to Bastille Day in the histories -- it's about a young engineer who comes to Paris before the Revolution, hired to move all the thousands of corpses from the cemetery of Les Innocents, where they had grossly polluted the whole area, to a seriously disgusting point that had to be dealt with. He did that and dumped them into a gravel quarry where they still are, a tourist attraction today. He gets caught up in the Revolution, of course, that's the relevance. And getting rid of the old, polluting bodies is a metaphor or symbol for the French getting rid of the Old Regime and ushering in modernity.

Ishi in two worlds.
The life and death of a California Indian tribe and the story of Ishi, its last survivor, who emerged from the stone age into the modern world in 1911. True story and vastly interesting , at least it was to me..-Tyr

[mundame]

Ishi in two worlds.
The life and death of a California Indian tribe and the story of Ishi, its last survivor, who emerged from the stone age into the modern world in 1911. True story and vastly interesting , at least it was to me..-Tyr

Yes, that was the very one. She had that book for decades.



Revelarts cited: But do they actually live by these beliefs? Peter Schweizer decided to investigate in depth the private lives of prominent liberals. What he found was a long list of contradictions.
Schweizer's conclusion is simple: liberalism in the end forces its adherents to become hypocrites. They adopt one pose in public, but when it comes to what matters most in their own lives, they jettison their liberal principles and adopt conservative ones.

There is a whole lot of truth in this. I have often noticed this in some relatives of mine who are great liberals, they say, but they move to a better and better neighborhood, send their children to the best private schools and colleges; they aren't willing to live as small-d democrats, whatever they profess to believe. This worries me, somehow.

[cadet]

I'm rereading "The Wheel of Time"
Since the new one is coming out soon... Or already is. Idk, I just know that when I finally go back home dad'll let me borrow it.

I'm also finishing up "The rose of the profit" and "The malazan book of the fallen."

Know what I hate about kindles? The power dies. Give me a good book any day and you won't see me till i finish it. (Friends are worried, oh well, i love my books)

[mundame]

I'm rereading "The Wheel of Time"
Since the new one is coming out soon... Or already is. Idk, I just know that when I finally go back home dad'll let me borrow it.

I'm also finishing up "The rose of the profit" and "The malazan book of the fallen."

Know what I hate about kindles? The power dies. Give me a good book any day and you won't see me till i finish it. (Friends are worried, oh well, i love my books)

You must love your books, you are reading several at once.

I do that too; I try to keep it under control, but now that I can read codices, ebooks, and audiobooks, it's hopeless.

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

Yes, that was the very one. She had that book for decades.




There is a whole lot of truth in this. I have often noticed this in some relatives of mine who are great liberals, they say, but they move to a better and better neighborhood, send their children to the best private schools and colleges; they aren't willing to live as small-d democrats, whatever they profess to believe. This worries me, somehow.

^^^ We that cite that hypocrisy by liberals are condemn as loons, reprobates, liars, dumbasses and violent soon to be terrorists. The book likely points out that contradiction in morality as well.

[cadet]

You must love your books, you are reading several at once.

I do that too; I try to keep it under control, but now that I can read codices, ebooks, and audiobooks, it's hopeless.

I REALLY try not to read so many at once, but they're so good...

Only issue i have when i read so often is that I don't pronounce some words correctly. Seeing as I've only read and never heard quite a few, and when i use them people look at me funny, either for not understanding, or for pronouncing wrong.

Idk about all of you, but when i read i blank out the rest of the world, and feel as if i'm living my story. And then it takes quite a bit to get me out of it.
Not like Nukeman, he has to have total silence to read anything. :laugh:

[Kathianne]

I REALLY try not to read so many at once, but they're so good...

Only issue i have when i read so often is that I don't pronounce some words correctly. Seeing as I've only read and never heard quite a few, and when i use them people look at me funny, either for not understanding, or for pronouncing wrong.

Idk about all of you, but when i read i blank out the rest of the world, and feel as if i'm living my story. And then it takes quite a bit to get me out of it.
Not like Nukeman, he has to have total silence to read anything. :laugh:

I hear you. I'm able to read while kids are in groups arguing any number of topics. Every 5 minutes I get up to see what they are writing down, not just verbalizing. During tests, read while checking for cheating, not as easy as in 'old days' as have to watch for eyes going for crotch or desk checking smartphones. That is an ongoing task, accomplished by reading a paragraph or two long sentences, scanning, getting up to walk around, then resuming reading. LOL! I've finished some big tomes in a matter of days.

[mundame]

Only issue i have when i read so often is that I don't pronounce some words correctly. Seeing as I've only read and never heard quite a few, and when i use them people look at me funny, either for not understanding, or for pronouncing wrong.


I have the dictionary.com app on my iPad and it's a pronouncing dictionary! Knowing a lot of words you have never heard pronounced is the curse of the highly literate. This dictionary pronounces ALL their words by just touching the icon for it, and includes many, many names (like Frenchies from their Revolution and other historical figures with names one doesn't know how to say) and even some foreign words.

And nooooooooobody tells me "that's not how you say it" anymore because I whip out that iPad and say, "Let's look it up!"

[mundame]

Idk about all of you, but when i read i blank out the rest of the world, and feel as if i'm living my story. And then it takes quite a bit to get me out of it.


I envy you.........I have always skimmed, since a small child, I read way too fast. And I read for plot! What is happening. I think I don't have the visual or auditory imagination to get into it deeply, or perhaps it's just long-term bad habits.

So I read the same books many times over the decades, the good ones. Nowadays I'm trying to slow myself down the first time. The audiobooks show how incredibly much potential there is in books, more than "what happens." I read the Count of Monte Cristo in very large type last year to force myself to read slowly --- first time I have ever really understood it!!

If you feel like you are living the story, that's a description of how I wish I read.

[Kathianne]

I'm with Cadet, I read the characters. Books can make me LOL and cry. Sometimes at embarrassing moments. One of the benefits of being deaf, it's very easy to avoid outside, just not look. If I keep my eyes on page, nothing else unless a 'boom' will lift my eyes. I've trained myself to scan a room of students as perhaps 30-45 second intervals. As stated earlier, watching for activities that shouldn't be seen.

For obvious reasons, an audio book fan I'm not. I like the written word. Heck for that matter, I like my DVD's with captioning! LOL!

[ConHog]

I'm with Cadet, I read the characters. Books can make me LOL and cry. Sometimes at embarrassing moments. One of the benefits of being deaf, it's very easy to avoid outside, just not look. If I keep my eyes on page, nothing else unless a 'boom' will lift my eyes. I've trained myself to scan a room of students as perhaps 30-45 second intervals. As stated earlier, watching for activities that shouldn't be seen.

For obvious reasons, an audio book fan I'm not. I like the written word. Heck for that matter, I like my DVD's with captioning! LOL!

not to derail, but wow I did't know this.

I'm rereading my Tom Clancey books from Hunt for Red October to Catch a Tiger by the Tail. I love the Jack Ryan series. follows actually from his dad being a Baltimore cop to him being a CIA agent to becoming President to his son becoming a spy. Pretty cool series even if some of his early work gets pretty bogged down in military technical details that slow the story down.

I've probably read them each 50 times over the years , but it's been awhile and they are just great books.

[WiccanLiberal]

With all the current news about finding Richard III I decided my English history needed a little brushing up so I am reading Allison Weir's Wars of the Roses. It's very readable history and does a good job of detailing some of the personality of the main players.

[Abbey Marie]

The Fallen Angel- Daniel Silva


Art restorer, assassin, spy—Gabriel Allon returns in The Fallen Angel, another blockbuster espionage thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva. The acclaimed author of Portrait of a Spy, Silva (“a world class practitioner of spy fiction” —Washington Post) is an undisputed master of the genre who has brought “new life to the international thriller” (Newsday).
A breathtaking adventure that races around the globe, The Fallen Angel begins in Rome, where Allon is called upon to investigate a murder at the Vatican, one with disastrous repercussions that could plunge the world into a conflict of apocalyptic proportions. If you haven’t yet
been drawn into Daniel Silva’s thrilling universe of intrigue, danger, and exceptional spycraft, start here—and see why the Philadelphia Inqurer declares that, “The enigmatic Gabriel Allon remains one of the most intriguing heroes of any thriller series.”






From: Amazon

[Nukeman]

Well the last book I read was "Leadership and Self Deception" Highly recomend it for anyone that has to deal with others (so everyone). It really gave me a new perspective on how I deal with others and my own thought process. (fast read only 200 pages)

I am currently reading the sequal to that book (The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict). These two books are put out by the Arbinger Institute. I will say all of us here would see ourselves in these books and see how our own interactions and "thoughts" affect not only ourselves but others.

They really delve into how to effectively communicate/see others without jusgement. Some on here could really use a mild dose of that:laugh:

[Abbey Marie]

Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Thomas Hoving. From Amazon:
A former Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art reveals his bold and
brash life at its pinnacle: the clandestine deals which secured
blockbuster exhibitions for the museum and made him a legend. If you have an interest in this amazing museum, this is a fascinating read. Couldn't put it down over vacation.

[revelarts]

Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Thomas Hoving. From Amazon: If you have an interest in this amazing museum, this is a fascinating read. Couldn't put it down over vacation.

When i 1st went to met in my 20's. I went into the Egyptian area and was literally stunned by the craftsmanship and design of the hieroglyphics. It was/is breathing. on multiple levels. as someone who works with graphic design. it awe inspiring stuff.

[Abbey Marie]

It is a world-class treasure for sure. So thrilling to see in person the Renoir that has hung on my wall since I can remember. I too really love the ancient art. Last time we went (last January), I got in trouble with a guard for touching a sarcophagus. I just couldn't help it! Hoving doesn't pull any punches describing the people involved (mostly negative) and behind-the-scenes action.

[hjmick]

Abby...


First, I love Daniel Silva's books. Gabriel Allon is a fantastic character.

Second, if you liked the book on the Met, let me suggest you try Dinosaurs in the Attic: An Excursion into the American Museum of Natural History by Douglas Preston. Preston is a very good author of fiction and non-fiction (as is his brother)...

From Amazon:


Dinosaurs in the Attic is a chronicle of the expeditions, discoveries, and scientists behind the greatest natural history collection every assembled. Written by former Natural History columnist Douglas Preston, who worked at the American Museum of Natural History for seven years, this is a celebration of the best-known and best-loved museum in the United States.


From Library Journal:


New York's American Museum of Natural History, one of the outstanding science museums in the world, contains an extraordinary collection of objects: dinosaur skeletons, human mummies, tiny beetles, birds of paradise, and massive totem poles. Only a tiny fraction of the millions of catalogued specimens is on public view, and Douglas, with a series of judicious choices, takes us on a tour of the great labyrinth of storerooms and vaults that houses the bulk of the collection. Of equal interest are the people who built up and continue to maintain this extraordinary collection. This is a delightful book filled with fascinating stories, anecdotes, and personalities. Highly recommended.

[Abbey Marie]

Abby...


First, I love Daniel Silva's books. Gabriel Allon is a fantastic character.

Second, if you liked the book on the Met, let me suggest you try Dinosaurs in the Attic: An Excursion into the American Museum of Natural History by Douglas Preston. Preston is a very good author of fiction and non-fiction (as is his brother)...

From Amazon:




From Library Journal:

Thanks for the suggestion- sounds interesting!

[red state]

Well, I was going to say that I'm a Conservative Christian and read only the "GOOD BOOK" but I see that someone beat me to the draw in adding a little humor at the beginning of the thread by mentioning PLAYBOY. HA!!!! Not sure that is a book but it was certainly very popular years ago.

Seriously though, I have a few that are excellent reads (if you're into sci-fi, action, drama and gore). The last one below is non-fiction and is an account of the author's view points and experiences in God's Country.

So....here is my list that some may wish to at least google:
For fiction/SciFi, I suggest:
The Catarbie Conspiracy by Sabrina deSouza. She is about to finish book TWO of a 6 part series.
For fiction/action/dark themes, I suggest:
The HALCYON series by Mike Holder. He is currently working on his fourth book within a 5 part series of books that may also be a graphic novel and possibly a feature film that is much like The Punisher and I Am Legend.
I like fiction and Sci-fi and often refer to Darwin's The Origin of Species (short version title). For nonfiction with historical, fulfilled prophecy and prophecy yet to be (as well as other fascinating stories), I refer to the KJB.


For a good read that if great to simply REFLECT on our lives and how to live a fulfilled life, "A Look at Life from a Deer Stand" by Steve Chapman. He has authored and illustrated several books with one very nice publication (book III I believe) with large, gorgeous photographs of America's Wildlife.


Great thread.....can't believe I've over looked it.

Lunch time!!!!

[Wild Duck]

Haven't started it yet but have Trident K9 Warriors. It's about the training of dogs for Navy SEALs and other specialized units.

[Abbey Marie]

Abby...


First, I love Daniel Silva's books. Gabriel Allon is a fantastic character.

Second, if you liked the book on the Met, let me suggest you try Dinosaurs in the Attic: An Excursion into the American Museum of Natural History by Douglas Preston. Preston is a very good author of fiction and non-fiction (as is his brother)...

From Amazon:




From Library Journal:

I just ordered it from Amazon. :cool:

[hjmick]

I just ordered it from Amazon. :cool:


Nice, I hope you enjoy it. I've read all of his fiction which then led me to his nonfiction works.

His brother, Richard Preston, mostly writes about infectious disease and bioterrorism. He wrote a very interesting book about the ecosystems in the tops of the redwood forests.

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

Currently reading, The Sack of Rome, by Alexander Stille--The Penguin Press , New York 2006. Just started chapter 4 last night. Title is a bit misleading as its about modern day Rome and the deeds of Berlusconi and his associates not Rome's destruction by the barbarians.;) Although that's why I bought it only to discover when arriving home it was about modern day Rome. :laugh: I picked it up on the way out of the book store by reading the title only. Still its an interesting book. I have to admit since being a regular here both my reading, my chess and all my shooting have suffered greatly. Life is like that, never enough time and then you die! ;)-Tyr

[SassyLady]

I just picked up two Alex Cross books today. Need to finish newest ODD book by Dean Koontz first.

[Marcus Aurelius]

For about the 20th or so time in my life... The Hobbit.

[SassyLady]

For about the 20th or so time in my life... The Hobbit.

Have you read any of Christopher Paolini's books?

[Marcus Aurelius]

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For about the 20th or so time in my life... The Hobbit.


Have you read any of Christopher Paolini's books?
Of course. I found it fascinating that he wrote Eragon when he was 15.

[SassyLady]

Of course. I found it fascinating that he wrote Eragon when he was 15.

Me too. And to have such a grasp on the subtleties of "racial prejudices" even with fantasy characters, and how they had to drop the barriers and band together to fight a greater enemy.

[DragonStryk72]

Me too. And to have such a grasp on the subtleties of "racial prejudices" even with fantasy characters, and how they had to drop the barriers and band together to fight a greater enemy.

I like that they still didn't "like" each other, it's more of a "we've got bigger fish to fry" kind of thing. That and the point that he didn't beat the readers over the head with it. Eragon still distrusted them, but realized that, for the greater good, he had to give the urghals a chance at redemption.

[DragonStryk72]

I keep running out of books. I'm all caught up on Song of Fire & Ice, finished up the Inheritance Cycle, The Sword of Truth series, and now I'm stuck waiting for more books to come out since I'm caught up or finished with all of my series.

I read the entire Dresden Files series as well, and I'm going back through some of my older novels again, including my Nora roberts books.

[SassyLady]

I keep running out of books. I'm all caught up on Song of Fire & Ice, finished up the Inheritance Cycle, The Sword of Truth series, and now I'm stuck waiting for more books to come out since I'm caught up or finished with all of my series.

I read the entire Dresden Files series as well, and I'm going back through some of my older novels again, including my Nora roberts books.

Have you read any of James Rollins? Nice series and he always starts with an element of truth but turns it into fiction to the point that it scares the hell out of you to think it is really happening. Series featuring Sigma Force. The one about the seed vault hit me the hardest. I think it's called Doomsday Key.

[KitchenKitten99]

Right now: Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain

Should have read this a long time ago, but for whatever reason, never got to it until now.

So far, two burnt & cut thumbs up. He actually tells stories well, but many cooks/chefs can, especially those trained on the East Coast.

Very entertaining. My favorite parts so far are when he describes his liking working with women line cooks that don't take shit and things they have done to thwart the harassment and debauchery within the staff, and telling about a place he worked at that was in a high rise near Central Park and for entertainment, cooks would toss profiteroles out the one window you could open that high up to hit pedestrians with them.

[Thunderknuckles]

Have you read any of James Rollins? Nice series and he always starts with an element of truth but turns it into fiction to the point that it scares the hell out of you to think it is really happening. Series featuring Sigma Force. The one about the seed vault hit me the hardest. I think it's called Doomsday Key.
I just finished a biography on Thomas Jefferson called The Art of Power by Jon Meacham which I checked out from the Library. I liked it so much, I asked my wife to order my own hard copy so I could re-read and make my own "scholarly" notes on the matter. In addition to the Jefferson book, my wife purchased another Jon Meacham biography on Andrew Jackson called American Lion. I have eagerly awaited both of their arrivals.
In the meantime I picked up the first and second books in the Sigma Series by James Rollins. I'm on Map of Bones and today my biographies arrived.
Sorry Jefferson and Jackson, you have been put officially on hold :laugh:

Seriously, while Rollins starts with little nuggets of truth and takes them to crazy proportions, not unlike Dan Brown, those little nuggets of truth are fascinating enough to send you to the library on your own research project!

[Arbo]

Recently finished Uranium by Tom Zoellner. Was actually quite interesting. From the first realization of what that 'waste rock' was, to developing the bomb to the current focus on expanding nuke power.

[SassyLady]

I just finished a biography on Thomas Jefferson called The Art of Power by Jon Meacham which I checked out from the Library. I liked it so much, I asked my wife to order my own hard copy so I could re-read and make my own "scholarly" notes on the matter. In addition to the Jefferson book, my wife purchased another Jon Meacham biography on Andrew Jackson called American Lion. I have eagerly awaited both of their arrivals.
In the meantime I picked up the first and second books in the Sigma Series by James Rollins. I'm on Map of Bones and today my biographies arrived.
Sorry Jefferson and Jackson, you have been put officially on hold :laugh:

Seriously, while Rollins starts with little nuggets of truth and takes them to crazy proportions, not unlike Dan Brown, those little nuggets of truth are fascinating enough to send you to the library on your own research project!

Well, I don't go to the library to do research but I like to delve further into his references. I was all over the internet about the Seed Vault and discovered that Bill Gates has a huge stake in Svalbard. Sources say he has invested over $30M.


So when Bill Gates decides through the Gates Foundation to invest some $30 million of their hard earned money in a project, it is worth looking at.No project is more interesting at the moment than a curious project in one of the world’s most remote spots, Svalbard.
Bill Gates is investing millions in a seed bank on the Barents Sea near the Arctic Ocean, some 1,100 kilometers from the North Pole. Svalbard is a barren piece of rock claimed by Norway and ceded in 1925 by international treaty (see map).On this God-forsaken island Bill Gates is investing tens of his millions along with the Rockefeller Foundation, Monsanto Corporation, Syngenta Foundation and the Government of Norway, among others, in what is called the ‘doomsday seed bank.’ Officially the project is named the Svalbard Global Seed Vault on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, part of the Svalbard island group.

The seed bank is being built inside a mountain on Spitsbergen Island near the small village of Longyearbyen. It’s almost ready for ‘business’ according to their releases. The bank will have dual blast-proof doors with motion sensors, two airlocks, and walls of steel-reinforced concrete one meter thick. It will contain up to three million different varieties of seeds from the entire world, ‘so that crop diversity can be conserved for the future,’ according to the Norwegian government. Seeds will be specially wrapped to exclude moisture. There will be no full-time staff, but the vault’s relative inaccessibility will facilitate monitoring any possible human activity.

Did we miss something here? Their press release stated, ‘so that crop diversity can be conserved for the future.’ What future do the seed bank’s sponsors foresee, that would threaten the global availability of current seeds, almost all of which are already well protected in designated seed banks around the world?http://www.globalresearch.ca/doomsday-seed-vault-in-the-arctic-2/23503

PS ... has anyone other than myself invested in their own seed vault? Maybe this should be a completely separate thread?!

[Abbey Marie]

Well, I don't go to the library to do research but I like to delve further into his references. I was all over the internet about the Seed Vault and discovered that Bill Gates has a huge stake in Svalbard. Sources say he has invested over $30M. PS ... has anyone other than myself invested in their own seed vault? Maybe this should be a completely separate thread?!

Yes! I'd be fascinated to read about what you've learned.

[Nukeman]

I keep running out of books. I'm all caught up on Song of Fire & Ice, finished up the Inheritance Cycle, The Sword of Truth series, and now I'm stuck waiting for more books to come out since I'm caught up or finished with all of my series.

I read the entire Dresden Files series as well, and I'm going back through some of my older novels again, including my Nora roberts books.
Have you read the "Wheel of Time" series by Robert Jordan. Its a 13 book series that was finally finished a few years after Jordan death by Brandon Sanderson.. You could also try the "Mistborn Trilogy" by Sanderson. Very good books and LOTS to read....

[Gaffer]

Just finishing book 3 of the Inheritance Cycle. Book 4 is still in the mail, should have been here days ago. It's nice to escape from this bizarro world into some good fantasy.

[cadet]

Reading linear algebra. With applications!
By Bernard Kolman/David R. Hill.

[SassyLady]

Just finishing book 3 of the Inheritance Cycle. Book 4 is still in the mail, should have been here days ago. It's nice to escape from this bizarro world into some good fantasy.

Awesome series from a very talented young writer. I look forward to his next book. Any word on whether he's written anything else?

[SassyLady]

Have you read the "Wheel of Time" series by Robert Jordan. Its a 13 book series that was finally finished a few years after Jordan death by Brandon Sanderson.. You could also try the "Mistborn Trilogy" by Sanderson. Very good books and LOTS to read....

Nuke ... was talking to someone about the Game of Thrones and he mentioned Wheel of Time. I want to buy the entire series and read them during the upcoming winter when it's too cold to be outside. Snuggle down and bury my nose in a good book!

[Nukeman]

Nuke ... was talking to someone about the Game of Thrones and he mentioned Wheel of Time. I want to buy the entire series and read them during the upcoming winter when it's too cold to be outside. Snuggle down and bury my nose in a good book!
Its a great series, You can tell when Brandon Sanderson took over the writing though. Jordan has a slower more descriptive pace and Sanderson is more action related. Sometimes I felt Jordan could get a little wordy but he is an awesome story teller. If you like fantasy books you will LOVE these.. I have read the series from start to finish at least 4 times....

[Gaffer]

Awesome series from a very talented young writer. I look forward to his next book. Any word on whether he's written anything else?

I haven't heard what he's done since this series. It took me years to find out book three was published and then discover there was a book four. Don't book publishers advertise any more?

The wheel of time series sounds interesting. I do kind of cringe when I hear another author has stepped in to finish a series. Most authors will tell you, the stories will write themselves as they progress.

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

Now reading , again my signed copy of , Famous Are Thy Halls by Rupert Norval Richardson. Enjoying it very much . I read it back in the early 70's the first time. I am amazed at how much I've forgotten from that first reading..:laugh:

[SassyLady]

I've just started reading the Mitch Rapp novels by Vince Flynn. Halfway through Transfer of Power.

[Arbo]

I've just started reading the Mitch Rapp novels by Vince Flynn. Halfway through Transfer of Power.

I only have a couple of those I have not read, and was quite sad when he recently passed away, as of course there will be no more. I thought all of them very good.

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

Just started reading this morning--Tancred or The New Crusade volume XVI EARL'S EDITION 1904 by Benjamin Disraeli Earl of Beaconsfield..

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

I am now reading, The Charm of the Middle Kingdom by James Reid Marsh, Boston, Little Brown ,and Company first edition Sept. 1922.

[hjmick]

Just finished Mad River by John Sandford and just started Phantom by Ted Bell.

[KitchenKitten99]

Just about to read "Lessons In Excellence" by Charlie Trotter. Just finally finished Kitchen Confidential.

[Nukeman]

Just started "The Critique of Pure Reason" by Immanuel Kant. Little tough since its translated from German but I think it will be a good read. Will come back with a "critique" of my own.

[Arbo]

Finished Blood of Tyrants, George Washington & the forging of the Presidency. By Logan Beirne. Great read in my opinion.

Just a bit into Stephen Kings new one Doctor Sleep.

[revelarts]

Just started "The Critique of Pure Reason" by Immanuel Kant. Little tough since its translated from German but I think it will be a good read. Will come back with a "critique" of my own.

That's a book i've read ABOUT, and an author/philosopher i've read fairly a lot about.
I've read lots of quotes of, and critiques of, him in other books ive read.
please let me know what your impression are when your done.
....

A bit of a twist on the theme here.
i'm reading the book of 1st Kings in the Bible this week.
and i found a quick 1 minute raw outline of the book.
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[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

Started late last night reading my first edition copy of --Visit India with Me, by Dhan Gopal Mukerji, E.P. Dutton and Co. New York 1929. First three chapters are great. I expect the entire book will be the same. If interested in India and its past I recommend this book. I bought in I believe back around 1989 browsed thru it a bit and never got back to it until now , some great pictures in it as well.. Too many books and not enough time. --Tyr

[CSM]

Just finished The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today. I like reading military history and trying to understand the whys and wherefors of events. Certainly the key figures involved (and the decisions they make) have an impact on our attitudes and perceptions. Very good overview and comments here:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Generals-American-Military-Command/dp/1594204047

My favorite quote from the book (from a colonel in command reflecting on the Iraq war): “As matters stand now, a private who loses a rifle suffers far greater consequences than a general who loses a war.”

This book should be required reading for not only senior military leadership but our civilian leadership as well.

[Kathianne]

Re-reading "The First World War" by John Keegan. This is one of the 'authoritative' works on WWI. It has the passage of time in its favor, not published until 1998, yet his father and other family members served. The language is great and the connections between the two wars is made in ways that earlier pieces just failed to do to the same degree.

[CSM]

Re-reading "The First World War" by John Keegan. This is one of the 'authoritative' works on WWI. It has the passage of time in its favor, not published until 1998, yet his father and other family members served. The language is great and the connections between the two wars is made in ways that earlier pieces just failed to do to the same degree.

Thanks for mentioning that book,. I have been meaning to re-read it as well.

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

Just finished The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today. I like reading military history and trying to understand the whys and wherefors of events. Certainly the key figures involved (and the decisions they make) have an impact on our attitudes and perceptions. Very good overview and comments here:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Generals-American-Military-Command/dp/1594204047

My favorite quote from the book (from a colonel in command reflecting on the Iraq war): “As matters stand now, a private who loses a rifle suffers far greater consequences than a general who loses a war.”

This book should be required reading for not only senior military leadership but our civilian leadership as well. Thanks, I will look to get that book my next bookstore trip. I simply have to pick up a dozen or so new undiscovered books. Preferably from some of my old bookstore haunts but will attempt to acquire that from new bookstore.-Tyr

[Abbey Marie]

Despite the title, it is a balanced and often positive look at the inner workings of this ancient and rather secretive institution, written by a reporter assigned there for years. I find it fascinating.

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[SassyLady]

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[Kathianne]

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[revelarts]

I'm Reading Without Excuse by Werner Gitt.
I think one Amazon reviewer sums it up well

"Many scientists believe that matter/energy is all there is. They try to explain everything, including origins, based on matter and the laws of nature that describe it. But there is a problem with that, and that problem deals with information. Dr. Witt first gives a rigorous definition for what information is and then demonstrates the fact that information is a non-material entity (i'd say fact or component) . He shows how information can only be created by an intelligent source. Since the DNA/RNA protein synthesizing system in the living cell is information of the highest complexity, he contends that it could only have been made by a highly intelligent source. In short, DNA/RNA could not have originated by natural material processes. This book is a fascinating new look at the origins of life. The book is technical and requires careful reading. But I feel anyone motivated by this topic who has average reading skills can, and should, read this book. The "proof" that a creator exits just might be the information in the cells of our bodies."

Gitt, a German Scientist, long recognized as an expert in information theory with many published works and awards, take the conclusion made by the book Signature and Cell and focuses on the information totally. What is Information and it's possibly origins. there's very little room to maneuver when asking the questions the conclusion is information comes from a mind. period paragraph end of story.

But they've taking a book to explorer the options and make the case.
I'm about a 3rd of the way through. You've got to do some thinking as you make your way through but often things are laid out very simply.



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the Title comes the Bible verse Romans 1:20 (http://biblia.com/bible/esv/Romans%201.20)For God’s invisible attributes, namely, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So that men are without excuse.

[revelarts]

also reading the Book of John in the Bible this week.

here's a VERY well done film that basically word for word of the book.

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[aboutime]

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Kathianne. That really does look like great reading. Doris Kearns Goodwin is probably the most prolific, authentic, American History author alive today.
And she's always a pleasure to listen to as well.
I've seen her many, many times on C-SPAN.
If anyone feels a need to get first hand knowledge about American politics.
She's tops on my list.

[SassyLady]

I have just discovered a new author ... EE Borton. Read three of his books back-to-back and can't wait for some more.

Suffer


Kate Freeman opened the front door of her vacation villa to see a Florida State Trooper standing on the porch. A few moments later, 50,000 paralyzing volts shot through her body. Her world went dark after her head impacted the tile floor. She woke unable to move. Sitting only a few feet away bound to a chair, her six-year-old son sat quietly staring at her. It was just the beginning of their hellish nightmare.

Without


The apocalypse came as a whisper. Mother Nature had been sending signs for three years, but most didn’t pay attention until she pulled the plug on everything. Nobody will forget where they were and what they were doing at 8:13 on that morning. They’re all still waiting for 8:14. Well, at least the ones that have made it so far. He was stuck in Atlanta traffic, making his way to work, when the world fell silent.
Abomination


Four decorated U.S. Marines with spotless service records are wanted for the brutal rapes and murders of over a dozen women within four months. Their hunting grounds stretch from New York to Georgia. When Ryan Pearson and his team of FBI agents close in on the first killer, the cornered Marine nearly defeats three heavily armed assault teams with nothing but unbridled violence and grossly deformed hands.

[Abbey Marie]

The 7th book (I think) in this wonderful Outlander series:

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[gabosaurus]

Contrary to most women, I read exclusively non-fiction. Currently, I am finishing up a book about the Great Fire Of London. It is a very visual and engrossing book.
Next up will be a couple of books that I bought in London. One is a series of first person account of the Blitz. The other is a fairly old volume about the bombing of Dresden. Not that I haven't read about a dozen of them already.
My daughter is reading a book about the lives of women in Medieval Europe. Because all 13-year-old girls are interested in these things.

[PixieStix]

I am reading This Present Darkness" And Piercing The Darkness. Two novels in one. By Frank Peretti

Kind of a spiritual warfare novel. Where politics and the spirit world meet.

I think Hillary was his inspiration for the books :D

[revelarts]

I am reading This Present Darkness" And Piercing The Darkness. Two novels in one. By Frank Peretti

Kind of a spiritual warfare novel. Where politics and the spirit world meet.


I've read the 1st one but i can't remember if i read the 2nd one.
Very nice read, paints a vivid picture of spiritual activity subtle and overt.
your come away with a strong impression to pray always.

[BoogyMan]

I am a shameless Sci Fi addict. Currently reading Influx but Daniel Suarez.

http://www.amazon.com/Influx-Daniel-Suarez/dp/0525953183

[revelarts]

reading the book of Isaiah from the Bible this week.

here's a youtube audio version in the King James
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4aDwZRovoI
and the new living translations
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P7Mqre33Hs

some of you may know this is the book we get the paraphrased saying
"the lion shall lay down with the lamb"
it's taken from this verse
"The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them."

it's also the book where we get the quote
"they shall beat their swords in to plow share.."
from here
"And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more."
Isaiah 2:4

but among my favorites in this book is one of the CLEAREST old testament declarations against the pop religion idea that "we all worship the same god anyway."
After literally making fun of gods of other nations and condeming the foolishness of many of the jews who had turn away from God to worship Idols of wood and gold



Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.
Isaiah 45:22
Remember the former things, those of long ago;
I am God, and there is no other;
I am God, and there is none like me.
10 I make known the end from the beginning,
from ancient times, what is still to come.
I say, ‘My purpose will stand,
and I will do all that I please.’
Isaiah 46:9

Isaiah 45 and 46 is like a song with the chorus being some version of
"there's no one like me"

which is a reiteration of what was taught by Moses
Deuteronomy 4:39
Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart,
that the Lord he is God in heaven above,
and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.

[revelarts]

Also reading
Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0670023051/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=W2ZGU17XMYMM&coliid=IDN564HTJ5WNO)


A revelatory look at how Roger Williams shaped the nature of religion, political power, and individual rights in America.
For four hundred years, Americans have wrestled with and fought over two concepts that define the nature of the nation: the proper relation between church and state and between a free individual and the state. These debates began with the extraordinary thought and struggles of Roger Williams, who had an unparalleled understanding of the conflict between a government that justified itself by "reason of state"-i.e. national security-and its perceived "will of God" and the "ancient rights and liberties" of individuals.
This is a story of power, set against Puritan America and the English Civil War. Williams's interactions with King James, Francis Bacon, Oliver Cromwell, and his mentor Edward Coke set his course, but his fundamental ideas came to fruition in America, as Williams, though a Puritan, collided with John Winthrop's vision of his "City upon a Hill."

Acclaimed historian John M. Barry explores the development of these fundamental ideas through the story of the man who was the first to link religious freedom to individual liberty, and who created in America the first government and society on earth informed by those beliefs. The story is essential to the continuing debate over how we define the role of religion and political power in modern American life.





I'm in part of the book where
"This is a story of power, set against Puritan America and the English Civil War. Williams's interactions with King James, Francis Bacon, Oliver Cromwell, and his mentor Edward Coke set his course..."

It's an outstanding look at the legal, "courtly" and ecclesiastical battles of law and politics
there ought to be a mini series.
Cooke V Bacon and King James over the supremacy of of the concept 'the law over the king' or 'kings over law'.
and Roger Williams is a legal recorder standing in the wings taking it all in, along with all the court intrigue.

And i'm just an 8th in.

:thumb:

[revelarts]

just finished
Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0670023051/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=W2ZGU17XMYMM&coliid=IDN564HTJ5WNO)

Very well done Book,
Great addition my understanding of the history of the origins of western religious freedom. Clearly portrays the background activities, political and religious ideas that were stirring in the infant American colonies and England.

And how Puritan Roger Williams's Rhode Island was the forerunner ideologically and by example for the religious freedom and separation of the State from the Church that we've had in the U.S..

the Only thing I wish the book had included was maybe an appendix with longer excerpts of Roger Williams own writings.
He wrote a few pamphlets , tracks, small books that we're read and hotly debated concerning the issues of religious freedom in England and the colonies that influenced Locke, Milton, Hobbs and others. The book says John Locke basically took Williams and summarized him in his on work. I'm need to find the originals.

[revelarts]

now reading

All of Grace: Know That God’s Gift of Salvation Is Absolutely Free and Available to Everyone (Faith Classics)
by Charles Spurgeon (http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8&field-author=Charles+Spurgeon&search-alias=books&text=Charles+Spurgeon&sort=relevancerank)

“Meet me in heaven” is Charles Spurgeon’s invitation in All of Grace—a clear, simple explanation of God’s absolutely free gift of salvation. The great Baptist minister, known as “the prince of preachers,” explains the gospel with illustrations, stories, and the plain truth of God’s Word. ...nineteenth-century classic.. sure to encourage believers and seekers alike.

[revelarts]

State of Fear
by Michael Crichton
author of Jurassic Park and others

New York Times bestselling author Michael Crichton delivers another action-packed techo-thriller in State of Fear.

When a group of eco-terrorists engage in a global conspiracy to generate weather-related natural disasters, its up to environmental lawyer Peter Evans and his team to uncover the subterfuge.

From Tokyo to Los Angeles, from Antarctica to the Solomon Islands, Michael Crichton mixes cutting edge science and action-packed adventure, leading readers on an edge-of-your-seat ride while offering up a thought-provoking commentary on the issue of global warming. A deftly-crafted novel, in true Crichton style, State of Fear is an exciting, stunning tale that not only entertains and educates, but will make you think.

i'm sure algore hates this book, it's pretty heavy handed blow against the whole global warming shtick. it's pretty devastating and almost too -in your face-. It's as if Crichton wanted to make these scientific and factual points outright but decided to wrap a story around it just to get it all in the wind.

This will never be made into a movie, not by hollywood, you better believe that.

[SassyLady]

The 7th book (I think) in this wonderful Outlander series:

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I've read the first three and some day I will sit down and reread them and get caught up on the entire series. After reading the Game of Thrones series and the Eragon series I've come to the conclusion that I need to wait until the author is finished with that particular story line ... I get to impatient for the next installment ... it can be years!! :whistling2:

[SassyLady]

If AI isn't already giving you the heebee jeebee's, this series will. I borrowed them from Amazon Prime on my Kindle so were free.

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The Fear saga by Stephen Moss

Fear the Sky (Book 1)
Fear the Survivors (Book 2)
Fear the Future (Book 3)

Storyline:



"Perfect for fans of Peter F. Hamilton, Iain M. Banks, and Orson Scott Card, Fear the Sky is a hard hitting sci-fi thriller that will have you looking at the stars in a different way."

In eleven years time, a million members of an alien race will arrive at Earth. Years before they enter orbit, their approach will be announced by the flare of a thousand flames in the sky, their ships' huge engines burning hard to slow them from the vast speeds needed to cross interstellar space.

These foreboding lights will shine in our night sky like new stars, getting ever brighter until they outshine even the sun, casting ominous shadows and banishing the night until they suddenly blink out.

Their technology is vastly superior to ours, and they know they cannot possibly lose the coming conflict. But they, like us, have found no answer to the destructive force of the atom, and they have no intention of facing the onslaught of our primitive nuclear arsenal, or the devastation it would wreak on the planet they crave.

So they have flung out an advanced party in front of them, hidden within one of the countless asteroids randomly roaming the void.

They do not want us, they want our planet. Their Agents are arriving.


"Fear the Sky is a brutal and powerful rendering of what would really happen if a race capable of interstellar travel set its sights on taking our planet from us. Book 1 in The Fear Saga sees very human protagonists pitted against an interesting and three-dimensional alien culture. It is as enjoyable as it is frightening." Bill Hartly - WBSN News

"Easily one of the most imaginative books I've read in recent memory. Stephen Moss' extremely well researched and creative thriller is put forth in shockingly elaborate style." Tom Quaranta

"...if Steven Spielberg hasn't picked up on this, someone else will before too long. Bravo Stephen Moss." Victoria van Hoorn

http://www.amazon.com/Fear-Sky-Saga-Book-ebook/dp/B00JYMJQ78/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1423367066&sr=8-2&keywords=fear+the+future

[WiccanLiberal]

As usual I am reading way too many things at once. And I have Audible on my phone so I can also listen to books. So presently I am reading Dana Marie Bell's shapeshifter romances on my Nook. I borrowed them through my library's electronic app. I am getting through the sequel to When Worlds Collide. It's called The Terrans of Beta and it is not nearly as good as the original two novels but it does have its good points. I am listening to Flight Into Fear which is a Doc Savage novel on my Audible. I am a sucker for old pulp novels. My next effort on a series will be Game of Thrones. Guess it's time to see what all the fuss is about.

[Kathianne]

For a few years now, been mostly reading from my Kindle. Today I ordered a 'real book' being released Tuesday.

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[aboutime]

Been reading it more to learn what America is headed for, very, very soon.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Communist_Manifesto

[Nonnie]

I'm reading, "The History of Glue" and I can't put it down.

Some good books I've read were -

"The Jigsaw Man" by Paul Britton
"The Five People You meet in Heaven" by Mitch Albom
"Resistance is Useless" by Geoff Burch

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

Just finished, Admiral of the Ocean- A life of Christopher Columbus by Samuel Eliot Morison
published February 1942.
Deals with his life, and all four of his great sea journeys, etc. Loaded with maps and tons of info never
taught about him in schools.

My second time reading this book, previous read was back in the mid 70's...
Amazing how much one can forget in 40 years!!!
It is 680 pages and a great informative read..---Tyr

[hjmick]

The Martian

[revelarts]

Buyology: truth and lies about why we buy

"...In BUYOLOGY, Lindstrom, who was voted one of Time Magazine's most influential people of 2009, presents the astonishing findings from his groundbreaking, three-year, seven-million-dollar neuromarketing study, a cutting-edge experiment that peered inside the brains of 2,000 volunteers from all around the world as they encountered various ads, logos, commercials, brands, and products. His startling results shatter much of what we have long believed about what seduces our interest and drives us to buy..." amazon

reveling and disturbing look at why we buy and what advertisers are doing now and the changes on the horizon in the market place.

and

Scrum: the Art of doing twice the work in half the time
"...The thorny problem Jeff began tackling back then boils down to this: people are spectacularly bad at doing things quickly and efficiently. Best laid plans go up in smoke. Teams often work at cross purposes to each other. And when the pressure rises, unhappiness soars. Drawing on his experience as a West Point-educated fighter pilot, biometrics expert, early innovator of ATM technology, and V.P. of engineering or CTO at eleven different technology companies, Jeff began challenging those dysfunctional realities, looking for solutions that would have global impact.

In this book you’ll journey to Scrum’s front lines where Jeff’s system of deep accountability, team interaction, and constant iterative improvement is, among other feats, bringing the FBI into the 21st century, perfecting the design of an affordable 140 mile per hour/100 mile per gallon car, helping NPR report fast-moving action in the Middle East, changing the way pharmacists interact with patients, reducing poverty in the Third World, and even helping people plan their weddings and accomplish weekend chores...." amazon

Night and Tailfins is probably familiar with this seem the method began in Tech companies.
basically it outlines how to create the best teams for a project. And to get the teams to work to get projects done in a realistic effective positive framework.

[Noir]

The Martian

I listen to an astronomy podcast that occasionally featured the writer of The Martian as a guest, heard great reviews but haven't got round to it yet.

[hjmick]

I listen to an astronomy podcast that occasionally featured the writer of The Martian as a guest, heard great reviews but haven't got round to it yet.


I'm only about fifty pages in, so far it's all being told in the first person so as I read it I keep hearing Matt Damon's voice in my head...

[hjmick]

The Martian


This a DAMN good read...

[WiccanLiberal]

I am a multiple title kind of girl. I borrow heavily from the ebooks at my library. Currently reading One Minute to Midnight about the Cuban missile crisis. Interesting perspective on the minutiae of events among the rank and file. I am also a fan of old pulps. I am always into a Shadow or Doc Savage reprint. And that's on top of the current National Geographic and whatever technical professional journal I need to brush up on. Oh yeah, I am also reading Horns, a horror novel by Joe Hill. BTW Joe Hill is the penname of Stephen King's son.

[Black Diamond]

The stand

[Perianne]

The Godfather

[WiccanLiberal]

The stand
One of my favorites by King. I have the more recent version, the one he reinserted the stuff edited out in the original editions.

[WiccanLiberal]

The Godfather


What are you most taken with? The criminal perspectives or the family relationships.

[Black Diamond]

One of my favorites by King. I have the more recent version, the one he reinserted the stuff edited out in the original editions.

Which version do you prefer? I own both.

[hjmick]

Which version do you prefer? I own both.


I've read both, twice. Either one works for me, no preference.

[WiccanLiberal]

Which version do you prefer? I own both.

I think the second. It has an added depth. I have the audible version on my phone. I may listen to that next. Audible is great for contributing to my delinquency. Books even when I don't have my hands free to turn a page.

[hjmick]

I think the second. It has an added depth. I have the audible version on my phone. I may listen to that next. Audible is great for contributing to my delinquency. Books even when I don't have my hands free to turn a page.


Who's reading it? King?

I always preferred books read by the author. I figured the author is the one who best interprets their own words.

[WiccanLiberal]

Who's reading it? King?

I always preferred books read by the author. I figured the author is the one who best interprets their own words.
read by Grover Gardner. He's one of the more noted and respected readers.

[Perianne]

What are you most taken with? The criminal perspectives or the family relationships.

It is a mixed bag of greatness. I like both equally.

[WiccanLiberal]

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[Christie Brinkley]

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[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

POINTS UNKNOWN, A Century of Exploration edited by David Roberts.
608 pages, started late last night. Will finish tomorrow.
Very interesting book. --Tyr

[Christie Brinkley]

I just got this book today

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So far


Putins mother and father lived in St Petersburg (Leningrad)
His grandfather cooked food for Lenin and Stalin as a chef
On the outbreak of the war his father was sent behind enemy lines where he survived by hiding under a pond with a tube
Putins mother was on the verge of starvation and relied on her brother who was also in the army to provide her food to survive
Putins father was sent back to the front and was hit by a grenade which put shrapnel in his legs, he was then carried to the hospital in St Petersburg where he gave his food from the hospital to his wife to keep her alive.
After the war they moved to a small communal living block where they shared their apartment with a jewish family. His father worked in a factory making tools and was a member of the communist party.
Putin was generally badly behaved at school but his potential was recognized by his teachers and quickly improved his behavior
Putin took German language classes and learnt quickly from his teacher
He then had an interest towards sport especially judo which was taught to other poorer children for free at a local gym
As he got older he developed an interest in becoming a spy by reading watching spy books/films
At the age of 16 he knocked on the door of the KGB office in St Petersburg and asked if he could join, the officer said to him that the KGB came to people they wanted to recruit and he had to of had either qualifications from the university or the armed forces to be eligible to join.
His parents heard that he was looking to go into law at the university and they tried to persuade him not to.
He was let into the university and began his education




Will update!

[revelarts]

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I read interviews and heard interviews of Springman several times. He brings to light some KEY information on the U.S. Connections with AQ terrorist (freedom fighters:rolleyes:) before 9-11.

I've read similar books I've found that the details show that it's often worse than portrayed in shorter articles. Is that the case here?

[Christie Brinkley]

I read interviews and heard interviews of Springman several times. He brings to light some KEY information on the U.S. Connections with AQ terrorist (freedom fighters:rolleyes:) before 9-11.

I've read similar books I've found that the details show that it's often worse than portrayed in shorter articles. Is that the case here?
It is just like all books like the Putin book I am reading now. I am shocked how frankly Henry Kissinger spoke to Putin in the mid 90's about eastern europe and the USSR.

Have the book in front of me-

This is Putin speaking while in a car after picking Kissinger up form the airport in St Petersburg "he was an inquisitive old fellow. He looks like he is nodding off to sleep, but in fact he sees and hears everything".

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

It is just like all books like the Putin book I am reading now. I am shocked how frankly Henry Kissinger spoke to Putin in the mid 90's about eastern europe and the USSR.

Have the book in front of me-

This is Putin speaking while in a car after picking Kissinger up form the airport in St Petersburg "he was an inquisitive old fellow. He looks like he is nodding off to sleep, but in fact he sees and hears everything".

Unlike advisers to the asshole obama NOW, Kissinger was and is the real deal--a genius and
instrumental in helping this nation for many decades!--Tyr

[revelarts]

Unlike advisers to the asshole obama NOW, Kissinger was and is the real deal--a genius and
instrumental in helping this nation for many decades!--Tyr

Kissinger is , if a genius, a dark genius.
war criminal, and international scumbag.
He's helped his cronies but there are plenty of dead americans and american soldiers because of him.

[Christie Brinkley]

Kissinger was probably trying to get his slimy tail in the door after the USSR fell by making connections.

[gabosaurus]

"Dead Wake," which is about the sinking of the American passenger ship Lusitania. More than a thousand folks lost their lives. Pretty cynical move by the Brits not to protect her, in hopes of drawing the U.S. into WWI.

[Abbey Marie]

"Dead Wake," which is about the sinking of the American passenger ship Lusitania. More than a thousand folks lost their lives. Pretty cynical move by the Brits not to protect her, in hopes of drawing the U.S. into WWI.


We were considering that for our book club. But settled on "The Martian", instead.

[Noir]

We were considering that for our book club. But settled on "The Martian", instead.

Top choice, 10/10.
The movie ain't half bad either.

[Christie Brinkley]

I just got this book today

http://www.debatepolicy.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=7794&stc=1

So far


Putins mother and father lived in St Petersburg (Leningrad)
His grandfather cooked food for Lenin and Stalin as a chef
On the outbreak of the war his father was sent behind enemy lines where he survived by hiding under a pond with a tube
Putins mother was on the verge of starvation and relied on her brother who was also in the army to provide her food to survive
Putins father was sent back to the front and was hit by a grenade which put shrapnel in his legs, he was then carried to the hospital in St Petersburg where he gave his food from the hospital to his wife to keep her alive.
After the war they moved to a small communal living block where they shared their apartment with a jewish family. His father worked in a factory making tools and was a member of the communist party.
Putin was generally badly behaved at school but his potential was recognized by his teachers and quickly improved his behavior
Putin took German language classes and learnt quickly from his teacher
He then had an interest towards sport especially judo which was taught to other poorer children for free at a local gym
As he got older he developed an interest in becoming a spy by reading watching spy books/films
At the age of 16 he knocked on the door of the KGB office in St Petersburg and asked if he could join, the officer said to him that the KGB came to people they wanted to recruit and he had to of had either qualifications from the university or the armed forces to be eligible to join.
His parents heard that he was looking to go into law at the university and they tried to persuade him not to.
He was let into the university and began his education




Will update!
Finished the book 2 days ago, great read for anyone who wants to know more about Putin.

Funny story is when Putin's house burnt down while he was in a sauna, he had to climb down from a balcony to escape the flames with only his towel on... and you guessed it the towel blew off while all of his neighbors were watching him!:laugh:

Good news is no one was hurt and they got compensation from the sauna company to build a new house.

[PixieStix]

I am going to be reading
The Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free Speech by Kirsten Powers, an unabashed lefty. She is an intelligent lefty, that most of the time tells it how it is.


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[Abbey Marie]

Loving this book:


From Publishers Weekly

King's historical account of the four years Michelangelo Buonarroti spent frescoing the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome is splendid, thorough and detailed. But its larger appeal lies in the way King (Brunelleschi's Dome) brings out the story's human elements. Listeners learn of Michelangelo's bitter disappointment when a project he was eagerly looking forward to (the construction of the Pope's tomb) was cancelled and that he had little experience with the art of fresco and was reluctant to take on the Sistine Chapel. King explains the craft of frescoing with involving details: for example, fresco dries quickly, so the artist could work only in small sections, and if a mistake was found after the paint dried, the whole day's work had to be chipped away and redone. Listeners also learn of Michelangelo's financial woes and family problems and the political upheavals of the time.

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[Elessar]

Tolkien's "Book of Unfinished Tales". Edited by his son Christopher following JRRT's death. It helps
weave the links to some of the more popular works such as "The Hobbit", "Lord of The Rings" trilogy, and
even "The Silmarillion" - which is the master work.

[Abbey Marie]

Boys in the Trees, Carly Simon's autobiography.

[Black Diamond]

Boys in the Trees, Carly Simon's autobiography.

Alright who the hell is you're so vain about? :cool:

[aboutime]

Alright who the hell is you're so vain about? :cool:

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6769186/carly-simon-youre-so-vain-warren-beatty

[BoogyMan]

The Atlantis World

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[Perianne]

The Demon Under The Microscope, by Thomas Hager

[Abbey Marie]

Alright who the hell is you're so vain about? :cool:

My next chapter is about Warren Beatty...

[Black Diamond]

My next chapter is about Warren Beatty...

He's so vain. He probably thinks that chapter is about him.

[Russ]

http://www.debatepolicy.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=8333&stc=1

Warriors of the Storm.. historical fiction about the 9th and 10th century then the Danes/Vikings were threatening to overrun what is now the UK. I really like historical fiction, and those were "interesting times". This is the latest book in a series, the first book of which was recently made into a BBC series called "The Last Kingdom", which Abbey and I liked.

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

I am now reading , American Sucker, by David Denby.
Started this morn about halfway finished and will likely finish it by Sunday night.

[Perianne]

I am now reading , American Sucker, by David Denby.
Started this morn about halfway finished and will likely finish it by Sunday night.

Is that a biography of the political left? Tyr-Ziu Saxnot

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

Is that a biography of the political left? Tyr-Ziu Saxnot

No, but its written by a guy(a New Yorker) about how his life totally blew apart , how he lost everything etc.. Haven't got to the end yet to see how he turned it around. I suppose he did since he wrote the book..

HAHA, AMERICAN LEFT ARE SUCKERS ALRIGHT BUT THEY ARE ALSO VICIOUS,
AND WOULD GLADLY SEND CONSERVATIVES AND CHRISTIANS TO THE OVENS IF THEY COULD. TYR

[Perianne]

Oh my gosh, this is a great book. It is a fantastic true story of how the first antibiotic drugs were found, that is, sulfa drugs, back in the 1930s by German scientists. We still use sulfa drugs today in medicine.

http://www.debatepolicy.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=8511&stc=1

[revelarts]

Tyr you questioned my comment about Algebra in another thread it reminded me of a really good book I read some time ago

LOST DISCOVERIES
The Ancient Roots of Modern Science--From the Babylonians to the Maya
https://d3by36x8sj6cra.cloudfront.net/assets/images/book/large/9780/7432/9780743243797.jpg
Here's an bit from the NewYork times review of the Book.
"...This catalog of achievement, while not exactly news, is breathtaking in the sheer sweep of human ingenuity. The Babylonians developed the Pythagorean theorem at least 1,500 years before Pythagoras was born. Indian mathematicians performed multiplication and algebra, and even ventured toward calculus, a millennium before Europeans. An Arab astronomer, Ibn al-Shatir, spelled out the theory of planetary motion 150 years before Copernicus. The ''Mercator projection'' was used by Chinese cartographers centuries before the birth of Mercator. In the third century B.C., physicists in China pretty neatly summarized Newton's first law of motion..."


Tyr my comment wasn't incorrect.
"the "algebra" we use today we picked up from the muslims and arabic countries."
your own quote say what meant. (though it said it in a very minimizing and condescending way) I just decided not to write a book to explain my aside.
...Mohammedan civilization in its great days was admirable in the arts and in many technical ways, but it showed no capacity for independent speculation in theoretical matters. Its importance, which must not be underrated, is as a transmitter. Between ancient and modern European civilization, the dark ages intervened. The Mohammedans and the Byzantines, while lacking the intellectual energy required for innovation, preserved the apparatus of civilization — education, books, and learned leisure. Both stimulated the West when it emerged from barbarism ....


Just because someone or some group or religion did some admirable feat. doesn't mean EVERYTHING they say or do valid. But it does no good to try and dismiss it all out of hand. Lets give credit where credit is due and condemn what's condemnable.

as you say, stick with the facts

[Abbey Marie]

Leonardo and the Last Supper by Ross King.


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[Black Diamond]

Still reading Stephen King's the Stand. I am slow. :cool:

[Elessar]

Going to re-read "The Hobbit"...<grins>

[Black Diamond]

Going to re-read "The Hobbit"...<grins>

I googled your handle the other day and saw the connection. :).

[Elessar]

I googled your handle the other day and saw the connection. :).

I am simply fascinated by the epic works of JRR Tolkien!

[Black Diamond]

I am simply fascinated by the epic works of JRR Tolkien!

Many are. My cousin is obsessed with the movies, too. You?

[Elessar]

Many are. My cousin is obsessed with the movies, too. You?

Yes. I have them all in the Extended Editions.

[Kathianne]

The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot by Russell Kirk (https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_ebooks_1?ie=UTF8&field-author=Russell+Kirk&search-alias=digital-text&text=Russell+Kirk&sort=relevancerank)

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

Now reading a first edition copy of , Corner Men, great boxing trainers by Ronald K. Fried..
This book gives great insight into the boxing greats and boxing in general.
Loaded with previously unknown facts about both legendary boxers and their trainers/corner men.

[fj1200]

The Underground Church: Reclaiming the Subversive Way of Jesus (https://www.amazon.com/Underground-Church-Reclaiming-Subversive-Jesus/dp/1118061594)
by Robin Meyers

[revelarts]

The Underground Church: Reclaiming the Subversive Way of Jesus (https://www.amazon.com/Underground-Church-Reclaiming-Subversive-Jesus/dp/1118061594)


by Robin Meyers
Looks interesting even though it sounds as if it's wants to toss out some "early church" teaching as it wants to embrace "early church" life and power.

seems to me you can't have one without the other though.
the teaching was counter culture.
It was in stark contrast to a full on pagan multi cultural Mediterranean society fill with worship of many gods as well as some philosophical atheism, 100% authoritarian gov't, religious and secular amoral sexual practices, society sanctioned polygamy, secret religious cults, polytheism, slavery, drug and alcohol abuse, witchcraft, demonology, local superstitions, etc etc . As well as in contrast to the stiff and exclusive jewish tradition of the day.

But the Christian good news of Jesus Death and Rising from the dead for the forgiveness of sins of ALL peoples...
(Sins God outlined by Moses BTW) ...and eternal life after death. With a personal connection to God and access to the power for a lifestyle of love and Christian holiness/morals ripped through that culture and changed the world.

But you don't get get the change without the doctrinal beliefs. Primarily death, resurrection, sin, forgiveness, eternally life, love and moral living as defined by the apostles and prophets.
But the escliasiality structures and church orders are not mandatory.
The early christians did it "house to house" "underground".

[fj1200]

Looks interesting even though it sounds as if it's wants to toss out some "early church" teaching as it wants to embrace "early church" life and power.

seems to me you can't have one without the other though.
the teaching was counter culture.
It was in stark contrast to a full on pagan multi cultural Mediterranean society fill with worship of many gods as well as some philosophical atheism, 100% authoritarian gov't, religious and secular amoral sexual practices, society sanctioned polygamy, secret religious cults, polytheism, slavery, drug and alcohol abuse, witchcraft, demonology, local superstitions, etc etc . As well as in contrast to the stiff and exclusive jewish tradition of the day.

But the Christian good news of Jesus Death and Rising from the dead for the forgiveness of sins of ALL peoples...
(Sins God outlined by Moses BTW) ...and eternal life after death. With a personal connection to God and access to the power for a lifestyle of love and Christian holiness/morals ripped through that culture and changed the world.

But you don't get get the change without the doctrinal beliefs. Primarily death, resurrection, sin, forgiveness, eternally life, love and moral living as defined by the apostles and prophets.
But the escliasiality structures and church orders are not mandatory.
The early christians did it "house to house" "underground".

It is interesting. I would break it down into two parts; first is the underground church part which I can accept at least in part. He proposes to go back to early church teachings as he thinks the later church has gotten to far astray from The Way. The second part which I don't accept much of is the tie back to liberalism (at least not to the point that I've read so far). His break down of conservative vs. liberal is simplistic and narrow minded IMO.

[Kathianne]

Rather than a book, this is a link to a review of a book. You may want to read the book, which I agree has an unfortunate title. I'm thinking of sending a copy to my brother:

http://thefederalist.com/2016/08/26/a-former-cop-takes-on-the-war-on-cops/#.V8GcZ4LYn2w.twitter

[hjmick]

Just finished the third book in Justin Cronin's The Passage trilogy, City of Mirrors. Very good.


Now reading Daniel Silva's latest Gabriel Allon book, The Black Widow. Silva never disappoints...

[Abbey Marie]

Just finished the third book in Justin Cronin's The Passage trilogy, City of Mirrors. Very good.


Now reading Daniel Silva's latest Gabriel Allon book, The Black Widow. Silva never disappoints...


I agree. This one is on its way from Amazon.

[fj1200]

What Color is your God? (https://www.amazon.com/What-Color-Your-David-Ireland/dp/0962790737)

David Ireland

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

Battles of the Crusades, 1097-1444: From Dorylaeum to Varna Hardcover – 2007

Nothing beats reading about real life, real death and history..
So very necessary to having a clear and informed foundation to understand the darkness and evil in the world today...
Attempting to understand the turmoil/chaos/warfare in the world today without very good historic context to judge with is akin to trying to eat
soup with a fork IMHO.....
WITH A FORK BEING SO MUCH MORE DANGEROUS THAN A SPOON.--Tyr

[Abbey Marie]

I agree. This one is on its way from Amazon.

The Black Widow- Daniel Silva

About 2/3 through, and it is really good. And recommended for anyone who wants a fictional(?) look into the inner workings of various spy agencies vs. ISIS.

[Perianne]

Killing Patton, by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard.

George Patton was the wisest and greatest of all American generals during WWII.

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

I just started Monday night, The Story Of The Great War, History of The European War from Official Sources Volume One
by P. F. Collier and Sons, New York, 1916..

Extremely informative read..
For tis necessary to understand history-to survive and understand the dark world of today.
As ---- MANKIND, CONSTANTLY REPEATS THE SAME MISTAKES (GREAT AND SMALL), OVER AND OVER AGAIN..

THESE PRE-1960'S HISTORY BOOKS GIVE A MUCH MORE CLEAR AND TRUTHFUL ACCOUNT THAN MOST HISTORY BOOKS WRITTEN SINCE.
Important if one truly seeks truth, over that of lies and comforting bull-shat. -Tyr

[Elessar]

"Unfinished Tales" by J.R.R. Tolkien.

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

Life In Letters of
William Dean Howells
edited by Mildred Howells Volume 1
First Edition, Doubleday, Doran & Company 1928
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https://www.questia.com/library/literature/literary-theory/literary-theorists-and-critics/william-dean-howells

William Dean Howells

William Dean Howells, 1837–1920, American novelist, critic, and editor, b. Martins Ferry, Ohio. Both in his own novels and in his critical writing, Howells was a champion of realism in American literature. His education was gained by voracious reading as he worked for his father, a printer in various small towns in Ohio. Howells early turned to writing and to editorial work on the Ohio State Journal (1856–61). He wrote a campaign biography of Lincoln in 1860 and was given an appointment as consul in Venice in 1861. The first of his many travel books, Venetian Life (1866) and Italian Journey (1867), brought popular success and recognition. After his return to the United States in 1865, he worked for various periodicals. Settling in Boston, he was associated with The Atlantic for 15 years and later wrote the "Editor's Study" (1886–91) and the "Easy Chair" (1900–1920) for Harper's Magazine.

His first novels, Their Wedding Journey (1872), The Lady of the Aroostook (1879), and others, were moralistic comedies of manners that aroused only mild interest. However, when he turned to realism with A Modern Instance (1882) and The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885), he became a leading novelist. In these two books, which are regarded as his major achievements, Howells portrayed with minute detail characters attempting to solve lifelike problems, often arising from social distinctions. His unromantic love story, Indian Summer (1886), was also highly popular. Howells' critical essays on the works of such realistic European writers as Tolstoy, Zola, and Ibsen helped to mold American taste, and he was a literary mentor to Mark Twain, Hamlin Garland, Thorstein Veblen, and Stephen Crane.

From the late 1880s on Howells spent much of his time New York City. During these years he became more and more concerned with social conflict and the problems of industrialization. Socialist thought is apparent in his novels A Hazard of New Fortunes (1890), The Quality of Mercy (1892), and An Imperative Duty (1893), and even more forthright in his utopian works, A Traveler from Altruria (1894) and Through the Eye of the Needle (1907). He was an amazingly prolific author; besides his many novels he wrote plays ranging from blank verse tragedy to farce; critical works; several volumes of reminiscence; and short stories. The most notable of his critical volumes is Criticism and Fiction (1891). His books of reminiscences include A Boy's Town (1890), My Year in a Log Cabin (1893), Impressions and Experiences (1896), Literary Friends and Acquaintances (1900), My Mark Twain (1910), and Years of My Youth (1916).

See his life in letters (ed. by his daughter, Mildred Howells, 1928); biographies by E. H. Cady (2 vol., 1956–58, repr. 1986), K. S. Lynn (1972), and S. Goodman and C. Dawson (2005); studies by E. H. Cady (1956 and 1958, both repr. 1986) and as ed. with L. J. Budd (1993), G. N. Bennett (1973), K. E. Eble (1982), J. W. Crowley (1985 and 1999), and P. Abeln (2004); bibliography by V. J. Brenni (1973).

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright© 2016, The Columbia University Press.

[hjmick]

PATRIOT by Ted Bell.

[Abbey Marie]

This:



https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51uz1Izzz5L._SX329_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg


From Amazon:


GARY J. BYRNE served in federal law enforcement for nearly thirty years, in the U.S. Air Force Security Police, the Uniformed Division of the Secret Service, and most recently as a Federal Air Marshal. While serving as a Secret Service Officer, Gary protected President Bill Clinton and the First Family in the White House.


In this runaway #1 New York Times bestseller, former secret service officer Gary Byrne, who was posted directly outside President Clinton's oval office, reveals what he observed of Hillary Clinton's character and the culture inside the White House while protecting the First Family in CRISIS OF CHARACTER, the most anticipated book of the 2016 election.

[Abbey Marie]

Very good:

http://www.debatepolicy.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=11457&stc=1

[Drummond]

In these days of doom & gloom, where a Covid-19 pandemic has occurred and a second wave of it is threatened .. what else was I going to do, but revisit an old favourite of mine, to 'perk up my mood' ... ?? :rolleyes::rolleyes:

Here it is ... a cracking read.

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Plot 'spoiler' ....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_to_a_Sunless_Sea


The story is told in the first person by Jonah Scott, a British pilot for the fictional airline Air Britain who has arrived in New York City on his regular flight from London. The United States has collapsed after using up nearly all of its oil reserves and the collapse of the dollar.

During the night, Jonah and the apartment superintendent and guard, John Capel, must fight off armed burglars disguised as military police looking for the food Jonah and Senior Flight Attendant Kate Monahan brought with them. Capel is wounded but Kate demonstrates her basic medical skills in cleaning and dressing the wound. Jonah offers to help Capel and a newly orphaned girlfriend, Nikki, of one of his crew travel illegally to London aboard his aircraft, in order to escape the anarchy that has befallen America.

Shortly after takeoff from New York, Jonah is informed that Israel has attacked Beirut, Damascus, and Cairo with nuclear weapons in retaliation for their radioactive poisoning of Tel Aviv's water supply.

Israel's strike triggers a worldwide nuclear holocaust while the plane is en route to London, the Soviet Union and China attacking America and its allies. Four Soviet diplomats on board try to hijack the plane, only to be killed.

Unable to continue to Europe due to the fact that it has suffered nuclear attack, or return to also-attacked New York, the crew attempt to find a place to land their plane. They are granted landing rights at Funchal, but its airport is destroyed by the collision of an El Al flight and a desperate pilot disobeying instructions.

Jonah and his crew wonder whether to crash land on an island in the Azores chain with the help of Juan, a local resident who has contacted them via amateur radio. Jonah sights a NATO airfield, Lajes Field, which is mostly intact. Jonah and the nuclear scientists who are on board deduce that the Soviets needed Lajes intact and accordingly attacked it with a short-lived neutron bomb to occupy it. Jonah lands the plane at Lajes.

Although safe for now, rising levels of fallout from Europe require that they evacuate, and they decide to fly to Antarctica. They are not sure how many passengers they can bring and how many supplies they will need to bring. Jonah and the SAS soldiers on board manage to re-activate the base radar and use the teletype machines to make contact with a sheltered-in-place British naval officer in the Falkland Islands who is able to break cover and confirm with the McMurdo Antarctic base the existence of sufficient provisions, plus a nuclear reactor for warmth. He dies quickly.

A Soviet Antonov freighter aircraft lands at Lajes. Initially suspected of being a Soviet landing party to secure the crucial mid-Atlantic air force base, it turns out to be carrying two female Soviet Air Force crew and a large number of civilian refugees. Next morning both aircraft, fully fueled plus carrying as much extra fuel as possible, fly to Antarctica. When the Antonov cannot make the necessary altitude to overfly the worldwide belt of hot radiation (with the weight of cargo, passengers, and fuel), fifty Soviet volunteers sacrifice themselves by jumping from the plane.

Soon after the characters arrive at McMurdo, it is realised that the tilt of the Earth on its axis is being affected by the numerous nuclear explosions. There are two different endings of Down To A Sunless Sea which suggest either a radioactive death for all the survivors with a theological twist, or minus the polar advance of radiation, a chance for the almost one thousand survivors to rebuild the world.

[Kathianne]

​The Weight of Ink

[revelarts]

3 audio books


Miracles We Have Seen
America's Leading Physicians Share Stories They Can't Forget
"Publisher's Summary
This is a book of miracles - medical events witnessed by leading physicians for which there is no reasonable medical explanation, or, if there is, the explanation itself is extraordinary. These dramatic first-person essays detail spectacular serendipities, impossible cures, breathtaking resuscitations, extraordinary awakenings, and recovery from unimaginable disasters.
Among the extraordinary cases poignantly recounted by the physicians witnessing them:
A priest visiting a hospitalized patient went into cardiac arrest on the elevator, which opened up on the cardiac floor, right at the foot of the cardiac specialist, at just the right moment.
A tiny premature baby dying from irreversible lung disease who recovered almost immediately after being taken from his hospital bed and placed on his mother's chest.
President John F. Kennedy's son Patrick, who died shortly after birth, and whose disease eventually led to research that saved generations of babies.
Miracles We Have Seen is a book of inspiration and optimism, and a compelling glimpse into the lives of physicians."

Medical Apartheid
The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
"Publisher's Summary
Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive history of medical experimentation on African Americans. Starting with the earliest encounters between black Americans and Western medical researchers and the racist pseudoscience that resulted, it details the ways both slaves and freedmen were used in hospitals for experiments conducted without their knowledge - a tradition that continues today within some black populations. It reveals how blacks have historically been prey to grave robbing as well as unauthorized autopsies and dissections. Moving into the 20th century, it shows how the pseudoscience of eugenics and social Darwinism were used to justify experimental exploitation and shoddy medical treatment of blacks.
The product of years of prodigious research into medical journals and experimental reports long undisturbed, Medical Apartheid reveals the hidden underbelly of scientific research and makes possible, for the first time, an understanding of the roots of the African American health deficit."

Undeniable
How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed
"Publisher's Summary
Throughout his distinguished and unconventional career, engineer-turned-molecular-biologist Douglas Axe has been asking the questions that much of the scientific community would rather silence. Now he presents his conclusions in this brave and pioneering book. Axe argues that the key to understanding our origin is the "design intuition" - the innate belief held by all humans that tasks we would need knowledge to accomplish can be accomplished only by someone who has that knowledge. For the ingenious task of inventing life, this knower can only be God.
Starting with the hallowed halls of academic science, Axe dismantles the widespread belief that Darwin's theory of evolution is indisputably true, showing instead that a gaping hole has been at its center from the beginning. He then explains in plain English the science that proves our design intuition scientifically valid. Lastly, he uses everyday experience to empower ordinary people to defend their design intuition, giving them the confidence and courage to explain why it has to be true and the vision to imagine what biology will become when people stand up for this truth."

[SassyLady]

Earth Unknown by M.R. Forbes

Just finished 3 book series by same author ... The Forgotten, The Forsaken and The unForgiven.

[revelarts]

I just started Monday night, The Story Of The Great War, History of The European War from Official Sources Volume One
by P. F. Collier and Sons, New York, 1916..

Extremely informative read..
For tis necessary to understand history-to survive and understand the dark world of today.
As ---- MANKIND, CONSTANTLY REPEATS THE SAME MISTAKES (GREAT AND SMALL), OVER AND OVER AGAIN..

THESE PRE-1960'S HISTORY BOOKS GIVE A MUCH MORE CLEAR AND TRUTHFUL ACCOUNT THAN MOST HISTORY BOOKS WRITTEN SINCE.
Important if one truly seeks truth, over that of lies and comforting bull-shat. -Tyr

TYR,
If you get a chance since you're reading about WWI, I like to get your take on this info.
based on some other docs not much referenced.
https://www.corbettreport.com/wwi/

[gurrola]

I've been reading The Millionaire Next Door recently. Usually I don't care a fig for these kind of books like "how to become rich in a week" and stuff but I was out of new books and found this one in my brother's bookshelf. He's a very flighty boy and always thinks about the easy ways of being rich: bitcoin, forex, looking for flats for sale in Costa Blanca (https://tranio.com/spain/costa_blanca/apartments/) to invest the money he never owns, these kind of stuff. So I decided to give this book a try but apparently it's full of nonsense.
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[Abbey Marie]

Welcome to the board, gurrola :cool:

If you feel like, say hi in the Introductions thread in the Announcements forum. Glad you’re here!

gurrola

[hjmick]

The Poet by Michael Connelly. Not a Bosch novel.

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

THE NOTEBOOKS OF HENRY JAMES,
Edited by F.O. MATTHIESSEN and KENNETH B. MURDOCK,
New York
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1947....


A fascinating book about the life, writings and inner thoughts of the famous author, Henry James. -Tyr


https://www.biblio.com/henry-james/author/599


Henry James, OM (April 15, 1843-February 28, 1916), son of Henry James Sr.
and brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James, was an American-born author and literary critic of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He spent much of his life in Europe and became a British subject shortly before his death. He is primarily known for novels, novellas and short stories based on themes of consciousness.

James contributed significantly to the criticism of fiction, particularly in his insistence that writers be allowed the greatest freedom possible in presenting their view of the world. His imaginative use of point of view, interior monologue and possibly unreliable narrators in his own Novels and Tales brought a new depth and interest to narrative fiction. An extraordinarily productive writer, he published substantive books of travel writing, biography, autobiography and visual arts criticism.

Henry James was born in New York City into a wealthy, intellectually inclined family. His father, Henry James Sr., was interested in various religious and literary pursuits. In his youth James traveled with his family back and forth between Europe and America. He studied with tutors in Geneva, London, Paris and Bonn. At the age of 19 he briefly and unsuccessfully attended Harvard Law School, but he much preferred reading and writing fiction to studying law.

From an early age James read, criticized and learned from the classics of English, American, French, Italian, German and (in translation) Russian literature. In 1864 he anonymously published his first short story, A Tragedy of Error, and from then on devoted himself completely to literature. Throughout his career he contributed extensively to magazines such as The Nation, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's and Scribner's. From 1875 to his death he maintained a strenuous schedule of book publication in a variety of genres: novels, short story collections, literary criticism, travel writing, biography and autobiography.

In all he wrote 22 novels, including two left unfinished at his death, and 112 tales of varying lengths, along with many plays and a large number of nonfiction essays and books. Among the writers most influential on James's fiction were Nathaniel Hawthorne, with his emphasis on the ambiguities of human choice and the universality of guilt, Honore de Balzac, with his careful attention to detail and realistic presentation of character, and Ivan Turgenev, with his dislike for over-elaborate plotting.

James never married, and it is an unresolved (and perhaps unresolvable) question as to whether he ever experienced a consummated sexual relationship. Many of his letters are filled with expressions of affection, but it is never been shown conclusively that any of these expressions were acted out. James enjoyed socializing with his many friends and acquaintances, but he seems to have maintained a certain distance from other people.

After a brief attempt to live in Paris, James moved permanently to England in 1876. He settled first in a London apartment and then, from 1897 on, in Lamb House, a historic residence in Rye, East Sussex. He revisited America on several occasions, most notably in 1904–05. The outbreak of World War I was a profound shock for James, and in 1915 he became a British citizen to declare his loyalty to his adopted country and to protest America's refusal to enter the war on behalf of Britain. James suffered a stroke in London on December 2, 1915 and died three months later.

James is one of the major figures of trans-Atlantic literature. His works frequently juxtapose characters from different worlds—the Old World (Europe), simultaneously artistic, corrupting, and alluring; and the New World (United States), where people are often brash, open, and assertive—and explore how this clash of personalities and cultures affects the two worlds.

He favored internal, psychological drama, and his work is often about conflicts between imaginative protagonists and their difficult environments. As his secretary Theodora Bosanquet remarked in her monograph James at Work:

When he walked out of the refuge of his study and into the world and looked around him, he saw a place of torment, where creatures of prey perpetually thrust their claws into the quivering flesh of doomed, defenseless children of light... His novels are a repeated exposure of this wickedness, a reiterated and passionate plea for the fullest freedom of development, unimperiled by reckless and barbarous stupidity.

His earlier work is considered realist because of the carefully described details of his characters' physical surroundings. But throughout his long career James maintained a strong interest in a variety of artistic effects and movements. His work gradually became more metaphorical and symbolic as he entered more deeply into the minds of his characters. In its intense focus on the consciousness of his major characters, James's later work foreshadows extensive developments in 20th century fiction.

In the late 20th century, many of James's novels were filmed by the team of Ismail Merchant & James Ivory, and this period saw a small resurgence of interest in his works. Among the best known of these are the short works "The American.

The prose of James's later works is frequently marked by long, digressive sentences that defer the verb and include many qualifying adverbs, prepositional phrases, and subordinate clauses. James seemed to change from a fairly straightforward style in his earlier writing to a more elaborate manner in his later works. Biographers have noted that the change of style occurred at approximately the time that James began dictating his fiction to a secretary.

Henry James was afflicted with a mild stutter. He overcame this by cultivating the habit of speaking very slowly and deliberately. Since he believed that good writing should resemble the conversation of an intelligent man, the process of dictating his works may perhaps account for a shift in style from direct to conversational sentences. The resulting prose style is at times baroque. His friend Edith Wharton, who admired him greatly, said that there were some passages in his works which were all but incomprehensible. His short fiction, such as "The Turn of the Screw", is often considered to be more readable than the longer novels, and early works tend to be more accessible than later ones.

"Mrs. Medwin", for instance-are briefer and more straightforward in style than some tales of his earlier years.

For much of his life James was an expatriate, an outsider, living in Europe. Much of The Portrait Of a Lady was written while he lived in Venice, a city whose beauty he found distracting; he was better pleased with the small town of Rye in England. This feeling of being an American in Europe came through as a recurring theme in his books, which contrasted American innocence (or a lack of sophistication) with European sophistication (or decadence) see for example The Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors and The Golden Bowl.

He made only a modest living from his books, yet was often the house guest of the wealthy. James had grown up in a well-to-do family, and he was able to enter into this world for many of the impressions and observations he would eventually include in his fiction. (He said he got some of his best story ideas from dinner table gossip.) He was a man whose sexuality was uncertain and whose tastes and interests were, according to the prevailing standards of Victorian era Anglo-American culture, rather feminine. William Faulkner once referred to James as "the nicest old lady I ever met." In a similar vein Thomas Hardy called James and Robert Louis Stevenson "virtuous females" when he read their unfavorable comments about Tess of the d'Urbervilles in Percy Lubbock's 1920 collection of James's letters. Teddy Roosevelt also criticized James for his supposed lack of masculinity. Oddly, when James toured America in 1904-05, he met Roosevelt—who James dubbed "Theodore Rex" and called "a dangerous and ominous jingo"—at a White House dinner. The two men chatted amiably and at length, as if they were the best of friends.

It is often asserted that James's being a permanent outsider in so many ways may have helped him in his detailed psychological analysis of situations—one of the strongest features of his writing. He was never a full member of any camp. (See The Pilgrimage of Henry James, critic Edmund Wilson noted James's detached, objective viewpoint and made a startling comparison:

One would be in a position to appreciate James better if one compared him with the dramatists of the seventeenth century, Racine and Moliere, whom he resembles in form as well as in point of view, and even Shakespeare, when allowances are made for the most extreme differences in subject and form. These poets are not, like Dickens and Hardy, writers of melodrama- either humorous or pessimistic, nor secretaries of society like Balzac, nor prophets like Tolstoy: they are occupied simply with the presentation of conflicts of moral character, which they do not concern themselves about softening or averting. They do not indict society for these situations: they regard them as universal and inevitable. They do not even blame God for allowing them: they accept them as the conditions of life.

It is possible to see many of James's stories as psychological thought-experiments. The Turn Of the Screw describes the psychological history of an unmarried (and, according to some critics, sexually repressed and possibly unbalanced) young governess. The unnamed governess stumbles into a terrifying, ambiguous situation involving her perceptions of the ghosts of a now-dead couple: her predecessor Miss Jessel, and Miss Jessel's lover, Peter Quint.

Although any selection of James's novels as "major" must inevitably depend to some extent on personal preference, the following books have achieved prominence among his works in the views of many critics.

The first period of James's fiction, usually considered to have culminated in Roderick Hudson (1875) is a bildungsroman that traces the development of the title character, an extremely talented sculptor. Although the book shows some signs of immaturity—this was James's first serious attempt at a full-length novel, it has attracted favorable comment due to the vivid realization of the three major characters: Roderick Hudson, superbly gifted but unstable and unreliable; Rowland Mallet, Roderick's limited but much more mature friend and patron; and Christina Light, one of James's most enchanting and maddening femme fatales. The pair of Hudson and Mallet has been seen as representing the two sides of James's own nature: the wildly imaginative artist and the brooding conscientious mentor.

Although Roderick Hudson featured mostly American characters in a European setting, James made the Europe–America contrast even more explicit in his next novel. In fact, the contrast could be considered the leading theme of The American (1877). This book is a combination of social comedy and melodrama concerning the adventures and misadventures of Christopher Newman, an essentially good-hearted but rather gauche American businessman on his first tour of Europe. Newman is looking for a world different from the simple, harsh realities of 19th century American business. He encounters both the beauty and the ugliness of Europe, and learns not to take either for granted.

James did not set all of his novels in Europe or focus exclusively on the contrast between the New World and the Old. Set in New York City, Washington Square (1880) is a deceptively simple tragicomedy that recounts the conflict between a dull but sweet daughter and her brilliant, domineering father. The book is often compared to Jane Austen's work for the clarity and grace of its prose and its intense focus on family relationships. James was not particularly enthusiastic about Jane Austen, so he might not have regarded the comparison as flattering. In fact, James was not enthusiastic about Washington Square itself. He tried to read it over for inclusion in the New York Edition of his fiction (1907–09) but found that he could not. So he excluded the novel from the edition. But other readers have enjoyed the book enough to make it one of the more popular works in the entire Jamesian canon.

With The Portrait of a Lady (1881) James concluded the first phase of his career with a novel that remains to this day his most popular long fiction. This impressive achievement is the story of a spirited young American woman, Isabel Archer, who "affronts her destiny" and finds it overwhelming. She inherits a large amount of money and subsequently becomes the victim of Machiavellian scheming by two American expatriates. Set mostly in Europe, notably England and Italy, and generally regarded as the masterpiece of his early phase, this novel is not just a reflection of James's absorbing interest in the differences between the New World and the Old. The book also treats in a profound way the themes of personal freedom, responsibility, betrayal and sexuality.

In the 1880s James began to explore new areas of interest besides the Europe–America contrast and the "American girl". In particular, he began writing on explicitly political themes. The Bostonians (1886) is a bittersweet tragicomedy that centers on an odd triangle of characters: Basil Ransom, an unbending political conservative from Mississippi; Olive Chancellor, Ransom's cousin and a zealous Boston feminist; and Verena Tarrant, a pretty protege of Olive's in the feminist movement. The story line concerns the contest between Ransom and Olive for Verena's allegiance and affection, though the novel also includes a wide panorama of political activists, newspaper people, and quirky eccentrics.

The political theme turned darker in The Princess Casamassima (1886), the story of an intelligent but confused young London bookbinder, Hyacinth Robinson, who becomes involved in radical politics and a terrorist assassination plot. The book is something of a lone sport in the Jamesian canon for dealing with such a violent political subject. But it is often paired with The Bostonians, which is concerned with political issues in a less tragic manner.

Just as James was beginning his ultimately disastrous attempt to conquer the stage, he wrote The Tragic Muse (1890). This novel offers a wide, cheerful panorama of English life and follows the fortunes of two would-be artists: Nick Dormer, who vacillates between a political career and his efforts to become a painter, and Miriam Rooth, an actress striving for artistic and commercial success. A huge cast of supporting characters help and hinder their pursuits. The book reflects James's consuming interest in the theater and is often considered to mark the close of the second or middle phase of his career in the novel.

After the failure of his "dramatic experiment" James returned to his fiction with a deeper, more incisive approach. He began to probe his characters' consciousness in a more insightful manner, which had been foreshadowed in such passages as Chapter 42 of The Portrait of a Lady. His style also started to grow in complexity to reflect the greater depth of his analysis. The Spoils Of Poynton (1897), considered the first example of this final phase, is a half-length novel that describes the struggle between Mrs. Gereth, a widow of impeccable taste and iron will, and her son Owen over a houseful of precious antique furniture. The story is largely told from the viewpoint of Fleda Vetch, a young woman in love with Owen but sympathetic to Mrs Gereth's anguish over losing the antiques she patiently collected.

James continued the more involved, psychological approach to his fiction with What Maisie Knew (1897), the story of the sensitive daughter of divorced and irresponsible parents. The novel has great contemporary relevance as an unflinching account of a wildly dysfunctional family. The book is also a notable technical achievement by James, as it follows the title character from earliest childhood to precocious maturity.

The third period of James's career reached its most significant achievement in three novels published just after the turn of the century. Critic F.O. Mathiessen called this "trilogy" James's major phase, and these novels have certainly received intense critical study. Although it was the second-written of the books, The Wings Of the Dove (1902) was the first published. This novel tells the story of Milly Theale, an American heiress stricken with a serious disease, and her impact on the people around her. Some of these people befriend Milly with honorable motives, while others are more self-interested. James stated in his autobiographical books that Milly was based on Minny Temple, his beloved cousin who died at an early age of tuberculosis. He said that he attempted in the novel to wrap her memory in the "beauty and dignity of art".

The next published of the three novels, The Golden Bowl (1904) is a complex, intense study of marriage and adultery that completes the "major phase" and, essentially, James's career in the novel. The book explores the tangle of interrelationships between a father and daughter and their respective spouses. The novel focuses deeply and almost exclusively on the consciousness of the central characters, with sometimes obsessive detail and powerful insight.

James was particularly interested in what he called the "beautiful and blest nouvelle", or the longer form of short narrative. Still, he produced a number of very short stories in which he achieved notable compression of sometimes complex subjects. The following narratives are representative of James's achievement in the shorter forms of fiction.

Just as the contrast between Europe and America was a predominant theme in James's early novels, many of his first tales also explored the clash between the Old World and the New. In "A Passionate Pilgrim" (1871), the earliest fiction that James included in the New York Edition, the difference between America and Europe erupts into open conflict, which leads to a sadly ironic ending. The story's technique still seems somewhat inexpert, with passages of local color description occasionally interrupting the flow of the narrative. But James manages to craft an interesting and believable example of what he would call the "Americano-European legend".

James published many stories before what would prove to be his greatest success with the readers of his time, "Daisy Miller" (1878). This story portrays the confused courtship of the title character, a free-spirited American girl, by Winterbourne, a compatriot of hers with much more sophistication. His pursuit of Daisy is hampered by her own flirtatiousness, which is frowned upon by the other expatriates they meet in Switzerland and Italy. Her lack of understanding of the social mores of the society she so desperately wishes to enter ultimately leads to tragedy.

As James moved on from studies of the Europe-America clash and the American girl in his novels, his shorter works also explored new subjects in the 1880s. "The Pupil" (1891), the story of a precocious young boy growing up in a mendacious and dishonorable family. He befriends his tutor, who is the only adult in his life that he can trust. James presents their relationship with sympathy and insight, and the story reaches what some have considered the status of classical tragedy.

The final phase of James's short narratives shows the same characteristics as the final phase of his novels: a more involved style, a deeper psychological approach, and a sharper focus on his central characters. Probably his most popular short narrative among today's readers, "The Turn of the Screw" (1898) is a ghost story that has lent itself well to operatic and film adaptation. With its possibly ambiguous content and powerful narrative technique, the story challenges the reader to determine if the protagonist, an unnamed governess, is correctly reporting events or is instead an unreliable neurotic with an overheated imagination. To further muddy the waters, her written account of the experience, a frame tale, is being read many years later at a Christmas house party by someone who claims to have known her.

"The Jolly Corner" (1908) is usually held to be one of James's best ghost stories. The tale describes the adventures of Spencer Brydon as he prowls the now-empty New York house where he grew up. Brydon encounters a "sensation more complex than had ever before found itself consistent with sanity."

Nonfiction

Beyond his fiction, James was one of the more important literary critics in the history of the novel. In his classic essay The Art of Fiction (1884), he argued against rigid proscriptions on the novelist's choice of subject and method of treatment. He maintained that the widest possible freedom in content and approach would help ensure narrative fiction's continued vitality. James wrote many valuable critical articles on other novelists; typical is his insightful book-length study of his American predecessor Nathaniel Hawthorne. When he assembled the New York Edition of his fiction in his final years, James wrote a series of prefaces that subjected his own work to the same searching, occasionally harsh criticism.

For most of his life James harbored ambitions for success as a playwright. He converted his novel Guy Domville failed disastrously on its opening night in 1895. James then largely abandoned his efforts to conquer the stage and returned to his fiction. In his Notebooks he maintained that his theatrical experiment benefited his novels and tales by helping him dramatize his characters' thoughts and emotions. James produced a small but valuable amount of theatrical criticism, including perceptive appreciations of Henrik Ibsen.

With his wide-ranging artistic interests, James occasionally wrote on the visual arts. Perhaps his most valuable contribution was his favorable assessment of fellow expatriate John Singer Sargent, a painter whose critical status has improved markedly in recent decades. James also wrote sometimes cha......................

[Black Diamond]

1984 by George Orwell.

[Kathianne]

1984 by George Orwell.
Me too

[SassyLady]

Anything and everything by M.R. Forbes. Sci-fi stuff and age old war between demons and angels only in space and some alien monsters, AI and naniates (nanobots).

35 books since social distancing started.

[Kathianne]

Just started a recommended new book during busy week:

The Socialist Temptation Kindle Edition
by Iain Murray (Author) Format: Kindle Edition



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Opium
Margarine
Nitrogen for farming
American Eugenics
Lobotomy
and more

[SassyLady]

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[icansayit]

Primarily TOM CLANCY, Hunt For Red October, Red Storm Rising, plus...like many here. 1984 over, and over again. It's almost like reading the DAILY reports or hearing daily crap from PSAKI the Biden President of "LIARS-R-US".
ORWELL was right on almost everything...but in different versions of the Destruction of Man.

[BoogyMan]

Just finished book 13 in this series. Craig Alanson has done a wonderful job with these books.

Expeditionary Force: Columbus Day is the first in the series. Fun books to read and get really good about midway through book 1.

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[SassyLady]

I've read all 15 books in this series and really like this author. Reading another of his series, Odin.

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[hjmick]

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel:

It takes place in the Great Lakes region before and after a fictional swine flu pandemic, known as the "Georgia Flu", has devastated the world, killing most of the population. It won the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2015. It's been on my list since before COVID, came across it at Costco the other day. It seems they issued another edition due to the HBOMAX series.


Goodreads: Station Eleven (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20170404-station-eleven)

Amazon: Station Eleven (https://www.amazon.com/Station-Eleven-Emily-John-Mandel/dp/0804172447)

[SassyLady]

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel:

It takes place in the Great Lakes region before and after a fictional swine flu pandemic, known as the "Georgia Flu", has devastated the world, killing most of the population. It won the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2015. It's been on my list since before COVID, came across it at Costco the other day. It seems they issued another edition due to the HBOMAX series.


Goodreads: Station Eleven (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20170404-station-eleven)

Amazon: Station Eleven (https://www.amazon.com/Station-Eleven-Emily-John-Mandel/dp/0804172447)
The Omega series I mentioned above is about exposing and eliminating the new world elites that are using technology for population control.

[revelarts]

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"For years, émigrés from the former Soviet bloc have been telling Rod Dreher they see telltale signs of "soft" totalitarianism cropping up in America--something more Brave New World than Nineteen Eighty-Four. Identity politics are beginning to encroach on every aspect of life. Civil liberties are increasingly seen as a threat to "safety". Progressives marginalize conservative, traditional Christians, and other dissenters. Technology and consumerism hasten the possibility of a corporate surveillance state. And the pandemic, having put millions out of work, leaves our country especially vulnerable to demagogic manipulation.

In Live Not By Lies, Dreher amplifies the alarm sounded by the brave men and women who fought totalitarianism. He explains how the totalitarianism facing us today is based less on overt violence and more on psychological manipulation. He tells the stories of modern-day dissidents--clergy, laity, martyrs, and confessors from the Soviet Union and the captive nations of Europe--who offer practical advice for how to identify and resist totalitarianism in our time. Following the model offered by a prophetic World War II-era pastor who prepared believers in his Eastern European to endure the coming of communism, Live Not By Lies teaches American Christians a method for resistance:
• SEE: Acknowledge the reality of the situation.
• JUDGE: Assess reality in the light of what we as Christians know to be true.
• ACT: Take action to protect truth.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn famously said that one of the biggest mistakes people make is assuming totalitarianism can't happen in their country. Many American Christians are making that mistake today, sleepwalking through the erosion of our freedoms. Live Not By Lies will wake them and equip them for the long resistance."

[revelarts]

ReRead
Dune




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ReReading Lost Discoveries.

a broad secular review of the trail of scientific discoveries and influences from around the ancient world

[BoogyMan]

The Music of the Primes: Searching to Solve the Greatest Mystery in Mathematics
Marcus du Sautoy

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[SassyLady]

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[revelarts]

While i'd like other people to have read many of the books I've read.
this one is one I almost wish I could force folks to read.

Eugenics and Other Evils
By: G. K. Chesterton (kath-cough-aGoodCatholic-cough)

There is SO MUCH in his analysis and dismantling of the Eugenics programs of the 1920s that applies to things going on to today.
From vaccines, transgender transitioning, & banning of large soft drinks.
Often with a backhanded humor he attacks the mindset that gives people the idea that they SHOULD do it.
His use of principals, logic and common sense is devastating.

wow


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Text here online.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/25308/25308-h/25308-h.htm
and here
https://archive.org/details/cu31924013462555/page/n9/mode/2up
Free Audio Here
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[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

Iam reading now, The Well Of Memory , first edItion copy of 100 copies signee by author E.E. Speight, PUBLISHED in Hyderbad INDIA IN 1926...
Number 1 signed, of a hundred copies. None of the others are known to exist.--Tyr

[Kathianne]

https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2023/09/what-happens-when-schools-abandon-merit/



What Happens When Schools Abandon Merit?A new book by Heather Mac Donald should serve as a national wake-up call.
SEP 15, 2023


George Leef
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America’s educational institutions used to adhere to objective standards of excellence. Students and faculty members had to strive and were rewarded (or not) according to their performance. What their background might be or where their ancestors lived didn’t matter.


That was true until a corrosive idea called “disparate impact” began taking hold in the country some 50 years ago. What that meant was that objective standards were objectionable if they resulted in poorer performance by certain racial groups. The obsession with disparate impact was kick-started by the Supreme Court’s 1971 Griggs v. Duke Power decision and has been growing in destructive force ever since.


In her latest book, When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives, Heather Mac Donald surveys the landscape and sees profound changes in crucial institutions: our schools and colleges, law-enforcement, medicine, and the fine arts. Everywhere, merit is being eroded due to the acceptance among “progressive” elites of what Mac Donald calls the bias fallacy—namely, that any underrepresentation or outcome disparities for blacks and Hispanics must be caused by bias against them.

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[Kathianne]

A bit pricey, but I love reading Sowell. Chances of reading many more original works diminishing, he's 93 years old!


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[fj1200]

The man is a treasure.

[SassyLady]

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The Abyss Trilogy

#1 Below Us
#2 Before Us
#3 After US

Mad scientist harnesses ocean energy to provide free energy to the world. Wakes up alien worlds and portals. Oh ... and we lose 92% of the population on earth. Sound familiar?

[revelarts]

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I don't read much fiction anymore (my fiction is usually via movies & comics... & CNN) but this caught my eye.
I'm almost done. it seems like the kind of thing some folks here might like.
from Amazon
"The Lost Order continues renowned New York Times bestseller Steve Berry’s Cotton Malone series with another riveting, history-based thriller.

The Knights of the Golden Circle was the largest and most dangerous clandestine organization in American history. It amassed billions in stolen gold and silver, all buried in hidden caches across the United States. Since 1865 treasure hunters have searched, but little of that immense wealth has ever been found.

Now, one hundred and sixty years later, two factions of what remains of the Knights of the Golden Circle want that lost treasure—one to spend it for their own ends, the other to preserve it.

Thrust into this battle is former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone, whose connection to the knights is far deeper than he ever imagined. At the center is the Smithsonian Institution—linked to the knights, its treasure, and Malone himself through..."

Apparently this "Lost Order" group was (is?) real, I'd never heard of it before.