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What are you reading now?

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  • C Catseye3
    21 Aug 2022, 08:25

    @taiwan_girl said in What are you reading now?:

    (PS, I think people on this forum page read more than the general public, so maybe this is not applicable.)
    Anyway, the "premise" is that you chose a classic book, and the app sends you a 20 minute portion to read each day.

    Yeah, I can't get too excited about such a thing. If reading is such a challenge that you have to be spoon fed segments according to the wisdom of some app, then maybe you should take up a hobby or something.

    Okay, that was probably unnecessarily snotty, but reading should bring joy, should bring fulfillment. The real schande is that joy in reading is not more widely cultivated.

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    Aqua Letifer
    wrote on 23 Aug 2022, 22:20 last edited by
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    @Catseye3 said in What are you reading now?:

    @taiwan_girl said in What are you reading now?:

    (PS, I think people on this forum page read more than the general public, so maybe this is not applicable.)
    Anyway, the "premise" is that you chose a classic book, and the app sends you a 20 minute portion to read each day.

    Yeah, I can't get too excited about such a thing. If reading is such a challenge that you have to be spoon fed segments according to the wisdom of some app, then maybe you should take up a hobby or something.

    Many great novels of the 19th and 20th centuries were serialized. That's how most of our classics were originally read.

    Please love yourself.

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    • A Aqua Letifer
      23 Aug 2022, 22:20

      @Catseye3 said in What are you reading now?:

      @taiwan_girl said in What are you reading now?:

      (PS, I think people on this forum page read more than the general public, so maybe this is not applicable.)
      Anyway, the "premise" is that you chose a classic book, and the app sends you a 20 minute portion to read each day.

      Yeah, I can't get too excited about such a thing. If reading is such a challenge that you have to be spoon fed segments according to the wisdom of some app, then maybe you should take up a hobby or something.

      Many great novels of the 19th and 20th centuries were serialized. That's how most of our classics were originally read.

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      George K
      wrote on 23 Aug 2022, 22:24 last edited by
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      @Aqua-Letifer said in What are you reading now?:

      Many great novels of the 19th and 20th centuries were serialized. That's how most of our classics were originally read.

      Isn't that how Dickens made a living - pay per word?

      "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

      The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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      • A Aqua Letifer
        19 Aug 2022, 19:42

        Currently nerding out over this: a collection of O.G. Robin Hood stories. (It's in Middle English, which eres moste harkyn too, but it's a hell of a lot easier than Old English.)

        What's interesting is that it's really hard to say who can truly own Robin Hood stories: the gentry, or the peasants? We all think of Robin today as a peasant champion. But the earliest recorded stories, by virtue of them being recorded, came from the educated population. And to them, Robin was a kind of aristo Keyser Söze—be too greedy or too harsh on the great unwashed, and Robin Hood's gonna come and murder you, then abscond to the forest and no one's gonna know what happened.

        I agree with this guy's assessment that Robin's an anti-King Arthur. That's true in basically every respect. Even in what's recorded. Arthur gets books and official canon, Robin gets an assemblage of ballads, May Day plays and mummery.

        Robin Hood and Other Outlaw Tales.jpeg

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        Aqua Letifer
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        @Aqua-Letifer said in What are you reading now?:

        Currently nerding out over this: a collection of O.G. Robin Hood stories. (It's in Middle English, which eres moste harkyn too, but it's a hell of a lot easier than Old English.)

        I'm actually having a go at translating the first one into modern english. Because why the fuck not.

        The form's easy to work with, and I'm taking massive liberties with lines and stanzas, but no details are being removed or altered. I'm also finding it challenging to keep the original voice of the ballad without either failing, or sounding old-timey. (For example, Robin talks to Little John about returning to mass on Whitson, which, no one would know what that means. But the time of year speaks directly to the sense of place in ways we no longer appreciate. It'd be a sin to ignore the reference. So I went with White Sunday.)

        Please love yourself.

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        • G George K
          23 Aug 2022, 22:24

          @Aqua-Letifer said in What are you reading now?:

          Many great novels of the 19th and 20th centuries were serialized. That's how most of our classics were originally read.

          Isn't that how Dickens made a living - pay per word?

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          @George-K said in What are you reading now?:

          @Aqua-Letifer said in What are you reading now?:

          Many great novels of the 19th and 20th centuries were serialized. That's how most of our classics were originally read.

          Isn't that how Dickens made a living - pay per word?

          👍

          Please love yourself.

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            George K
            wrote on 22 Sept 2022, 22:12 last edited by
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            About ⅔ of the way through this. Good story, and the storytelling is "tighter" than it's been in a while.

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            "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

            The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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            • G George K
              22 Sept 2022, 22:12

              About ⅔ of the way through this. Good story, and the storytelling is "tighter" than it's been in a while.

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              taiwan_girl
              wrote on 23 Sept 2022, 00:33 last edited by
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              @George-K said in What are you reading now?:

              About ⅔ of the way through this. Good story, and the storytelling is "tighter" than it's been in a while.

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              I am actually reading the very first one (The Black Echo) based on your suggestion. So far, so good.

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              • T taiwan_girl
                23 Sept 2022, 00:33

                @George-K said in What are you reading now?:

                About ⅔ of the way through this. Good story, and the storytelling is "tighter" than it's been in a while.

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                I am actually reading the very first one (The Black Echo) based on your suggestion. So far, so good.

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                George K
                wrote on 23 Sept 2022, 00:40 last edited by
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                @taiwan_girl said in What are you reading now?:

                I am actually reading the very first one (The Black Echo) based on your suggestion. So far, so good.

                The thing about the Bosch books is that, although they're "sequels" in the sense that each occurs later in the timeline, only two really depend on knowing what happened in the preceding book.

                You can start with book #15 and you won't feel lost. There are allusions to characters and stories told in earlier books, but the plot doesn't depend on your knowledge of these.

                They're also a quick, easy, read. I hope to finish this tomorrow.

                "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                  George K
                  wrote on 25 Sept 2022, 00:38 last edited by
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                  Why not?

                  Finished this this evening....

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                  Really a fun read, and just different enough from the preceding books.

                  • Bosch is no longer with LAPD
                  • Mickey Haller - "The Lincoln Lawyer" is a major player in the story. And he's Bosch's half-brother
                  • Bosch works to exonerate someone accused of murder

                  "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                  The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                    Renauda
                    wrote on 25 Sept 2022, 00:58 last edited by
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                    Finally finishing Ian Toll’s trilogy about the war in the Pacific 1941 - 1945. Well researched and written narrative. Worth reading.

                    Elbows up!

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                      Aqua Letifer
                      wrote on 25 Sept 2022, 01:16 last edited by Aqua Letifer
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                      Fun. Kind of a "Stephen King does Grimm's Fairy Tales."

                      Please love yourself.

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                        George K
                        wrote on 25 Sept 2022, 21:11 last edited by
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                        Just continuing the deep dive into the LA crime scene.

                        Seeing Mickey Haller in the last Bosch book I read got me intrigued.

                        Halfway done with this.

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                        "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                        The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                          George K
                          wrote on 26 Sept 2022, 21:35 last edited by George K
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                          You know how you fall into a YouTube rabbit hole?

                          Well, that's happened with the Bosch Universe>

                          Finished "The Lincoln Lawyer" this AM, and started the next in the series.

                          The Brass Verdict

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                          This is the book upon which the Amazon (?) series is grounded. It starts with the 2nd book of the Mickey Haller series (the first book, "The Lincoln Lawyer," having been done as a movie. About ¼ of the way thru.

                          Fun...

                          "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                          The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                          • A Aqua Letifer
                            23 Aug 2022, 22:20

                            @Catseye3 said in What are you reading now?:

                            @taiwan_girl said in What are you reading now?:

                            (PS, I think people on this forum page read more than the general public, so maybe this is not applicable.)
                            Anyway, the "premise" is that you chose a classic book, and the app sends you a 20 minute portion to read each day.

                            Yeah, I can't get too excited about such a thing. If reading is such a challenge that you have to be spoon fed segments according to the wisdom of some app, then maybe you should take up a hobby or something.

                            Many great novels of the 19th and 20th centuries were serialized. That's how most of our classics were originally read.

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                            Jolly
                            wrote on 27 Sept 2022, 12:10 last edited by
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                            @Aqua-Letifer said in What are you reading now?:

                            @Catseye3 said in What are you reading now?:

                            @taiwan_girl said in What are you reading now?:

                            (PS, I think people on this forum page read more than the general public, so maybe this is not applicable.)
                            Anyway, the "premise" is that you chose a classic book, and the app sends you a 20 minute portion to read each day.

                            Yeah, I can't get too excited about such a thing. If reading is such a challenge that you have to be spoon fed segments according to the wisdom of some app, then maybe you should take up a hobby or something.

                            Many great novels of the 19th and 20th centuries were serialized. That's how most of our classics were originally read.

                            Didn't know you were a Zane Grey fan. 😉

                            “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                            Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                            • RenaudaR Renauda
                              25 Sept 2022, 00:58

                              Finally finishing Ian Toll’s trilogy about the war in the Pacific 1941 - 1945. Well researched and written narrative. Worth reading.

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                              Jolly
                              wrote on 27 Sept 2022, 12:13 last edited by
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                              @Renauda said in What are you reading now?:

                              Finally finishing Ian Toll’s trilogy about the war in the Pacific 1941 - 1945. Well researched and written narrative. Worth reading.

                              Been awhile since I've read that. Now that you've reminded me, I'll have to do it again.

                              “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                              Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                              • J Jolly
                                27 Sept 2022, 12:10

                                @Aqua-Letifer said in What are you reading now?:

                                @Catseye3 said in What are you reading now?:

                                @taiwan_girl said in What are you reading now?:

                                (PS, I think people on this forum page read more than the general public, so maybe this is not applicable.)
                                Anyway, the "premise" is that you chose a classic book, and the app sends you a 20 minute portion to read each day.

                                Yeah, I can't get too excited about such a thing. If reading is such a challenge that you have to be spoon fed segments according to the wisdom of some app, then maybe you should take up a hobby or something.

                                Many great novels of the 19th and 20th centuries were serialized. That's how most of our classics were originally read.

                                Didn't know you were a Zane Grey fan. 😉

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                                Aqua Letifer
                                wrote on 27 Sept 2022, 13:36 last edited by
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                                @Jolly said in What are you reading now?:

                                @Aqua-Letifer said in What are you reading now?:

                                @Catseye3 said in What are you reading now?:

                                @taiwan_girl said in What are you reading now?:

                                (PS, I think people on this forum page read more than the general public, so maybe this is not applicable.)
                                Anyway, the "premise" is that you chose a classic book, and the app sends you a 20 minute portion to read each day.

                                Yeah, I can't get too excited about such a thing. If reading is such a challenge that you have to be spoon fed segments according to the wisdom of some app, then maybe you should take up a hobby or something.

                                Many great novels of the 19th and 20th centuries were serialized. That's how most of our classics were originally read.

                                Didn't know you were a Zane Grey fan. 😉

                                Zane Grey's badass. Not my thing, but great nonetheless.

                                Please love yourself.

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                                  George K
                                  wrote on 27 Sept 2022, 13:39 last edited by
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                                  OK - I'll admit it. Never read any Zane Grey.

                                  Where to begin?

                                  "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                                  The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                                  • G George K
                                    27 Sept 2022, 13:39

                                    OK - I'll admit it. Never read any Zane Grey.

                                    Where to begin?

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                                    Catseye3
                                    wrote on 27 Sept 2022, 13:47 last edited by
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                                    @George-K said in What are you reading now?:

                                    Where to begin?

                                    George, look here: https://www.zgws.org/zgwsstrt.php

                                    Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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                                    • G George K
                                      27 Sept 2022, 13:39

                                      OK - I'll admit it. Never read any Zane Grey.

                                      Where to begin?

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                                      Aqua Letifer
                                      wrote on 27 Sept 2022, 14:17 last edited by
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                                      @George-K said in What are you reading now?:

                                      OK - I'll admit it. Never read any Zane Grey.

                                      Where to begin?

                                      I only read the classic, Riders of the Purple Sage, but it was awesome.

                                      Please love yourself.

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                                        Horace
                                        wrote on 27 Sept 2022, 14:20 last edited by
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                                        Education is extremely important.

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                                          George K
                                          wrote on 2 Oct 2022, 00:11 last edited by
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                                          Finished this today. Nice, involved, mystery with a good twist at the end. The book introduces Jack McEvoy, a reporter who appears in a few Bosch books.

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                                          Gonna pick this up tomorrow. I enjoyed the series, so it'll be interesting. I read one of Steinhauer's other books ("The Bridge of Sighs") and it was...okay. Hope this doesn't disappoint.

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                                          "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                                          The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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