What are you reading now?
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wrote on 23 Dec 2023, 19:21 last edited by Renauda
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wrote on 23 Dec 2023, 19:24 last edited by
I have been looking at textbooks lately.
There is not really a degree in the book. But that would have advantages over some school-bought degrees.
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I'm not a huge King fan, though I loved Salem's Lot and some of his shorter stuff (Apt Pupil). Also, of course, The Shining.
So....
wrote on 24 Dec 2023, 01:17 last edited by@George-K said in What are you reading now?:
'm not a huge King fan, though I loved Salem's Lot and some of his shorter stuff (Apt Pupil). Also, of course, The Shining.
Ahhh...screw it.
Time to reread "The Shining."
Interesting to see how his style has changed, and yet, remained the same over the last 40-plus years.
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wrote on 27 Dec 2023, 02:16 last edited by
This is excellent.
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wrote on 27 Dec 2023, 02:23 last edited by
I'm on Book 3 of the Dune saga. I'm enjoying them a lot, and I'm hoping I can stick with them, but if I remember correctly the next one in the series is when Herbert jumped the sandworm
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I'm on Book 3 of the Dune saga. I'm enjoying them a lot, and I'm hoping I can stick with them, but if I remember correctly the next one in the series is when Herbert jumped the sandworm
wrote on 27 Dec 2023, 15:38 last edited by@Doctor-Phibes said in What are you reading now?:
I'm on Book 3 of the Dune saga. I'm enjoying them a lot, and I'm hoping I can stick with them, but if I remember correctly the next one in the series is when Herbert jumped the sandworm
My recollection also. Really it should've just stayed a trilogy. Maybe even just one book.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in What are you reading now?:
I'm on Book 3 of the Dune saga. I'm enjoying them a lot, and I'm hoping I can stick with them, but if I remember correctly the next one in the series is when Herbert jumped the sandworm
My recollection also. Really it should've just stayed a trilogy. Maybe even just one book.
wrote on 27 Dec 2023, 15:41 last edited by@Aqua-Letifer said in What are you reading now?:
@Doctor-Phibes said in What are you reading now?:
I'm on Book 3 of the Dune saga. I'm enjoying them a lot, and I'm hoping I can stick with them, but if I remember correctly the next one in the series is when Herbert jumped the sandworm
My recollection also. Really it should've just stayed a trilogy. Maybe even just one book.
The first book was way, way better than I remembered. The second one was a little meh. The third one is pretty good.
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wrote on 27 Dec 2023, 16:16 last edited by
Got book #2 (WW II) in the 4-book series for Christmas.
I still have to finish book #1 - West Point History of the Civil War.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in What are you reading now?:
@Doctor-Phibes said in What are you reading now?:
I'm on Book 3 of the Dune saga. I'm enjoying them a lot, and I'm hoping I can stick with them, but if I remember correctly the next one in the series is when Herbert jumped the sandworm
My recollection also. Really it should've just stayed a trilogy. Maybe even just one book.
The first book was way, way better than I remembered. The second one was a little meh. The third one is pretty good.
wrote on 27 Dec 2023, 17:14 last edited by@Doctor-Phibes said in What are you reading now?:
@Aqua-Letifer said in What are you reading now?:
@Doctor-Phibes said in What are you reading now?:
I'm on Book 3 of the Dune saga. I'm enjoying them a lot, and I'm hoping I can stick with them, but if I remember correctly the next one in the series is when Herbert jumped the sandworm
My recollection also. Really it should've just stayed a trilogy. Maybe even just one book.
The first book was way, way better than I remembered. The second one was a little meh. The third one is pretty good.
I read the first three books, probably, 40 years ago. I re-read "Dune" twice, the last time about 2 years ago. I really enjoyed it. I suppose I should do the next two, but I'm not in a messianic mood.
However, if you like good, hard, sci-fi, the "prequels" written by Herbert's son, Brian, and Kevin Anderson are fun. The give the whole backstory of the Harkonnen/Atreides feud, the origin of the Mentats, Bene Geserit, "folding space," and all that.
They get a lot of criticism for not being Frank's work, and "simplistic." Nevertheless, I enjoyed them. I believe @LuFins-Dad has read them as well.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in What are you reading now?:
@Aqua-Letifer said in What are you reading now?:
@Doctor-Phibes said in What are you reading now?:
I'm on Book 3 of the Dune saga. I'm enjoying them a lot, and I'm hoping I can stick with them, but if I remember correctly the next one in the series is when Herbert jumped the sandworm
My recollection also. Really it should've just stayed a trilogy. Maybe even just one book.
The first book was way, way better than I remembered. The second one was a little meh. The third one is pretty good.
I read the first three books, probably, 40 years ago. I re-read "Dune" twice, the last time about 2 years ago. I really enjoyed it. I suppose I should do the next two, but I'm not in a messianic mood.
However, if you like good, hard, sci-fi, the "prequels" written by Herbert's son, Brian, and Kevin Anderson are fun. The give the whole backstory of the Harkonnen/Atreides feud, the origin of the Mentats, Bene Geserit, "folding space," and all that.
They get a lot of criticism for not being Frank's work, and "simplistic." Nevertheless, I enjoyed them. I believe @LuFins-Dad has read them as well.
wrote on 27 Dec 2023, 17:31 last edited by@George-K said in What are you reading now?:
@Doctor-Phibes said in What are you reading now?:
@Aqua-Letifer said in What are you reading now?:
@Doctor-Phibes said in What are you reading now?:
I'm on Book 3 of the Dune saga. I'm enjoying them a lot, and I'm hoping I can stick with them, but if I remember correctly the next one in the series is when Herbert jumped the sandworm
My recollection also. Really it should've just stayed a trilogy. Maybe even just one book.
The first book was way, way better than I remembered. The second one was a little meh. The third one is pretty good.
I read the first three books, probably, 40 years ago. I re-read "Dune" twice, the last time about 2 years ago. I really enjoyed it. I suppose I should do the next two, but I'm not in a messianic mood.
However, if you like good, hard, sci-fi, the "prequels" written by Herbert's son, Brian, and Kevin Anderson are fun. The give the whole backstory of the Harkonnen/Atreides feud, the origin of the Mentats, Bene Geserit, "folding space," and all that.
They get a lot of criticism for not being Frank's work, and "simplistic." Nevertheless, I enjoyed them. I believe @LuFins-Dad has read them as well.
His son made a graphic novel version of the first book.
Is awesome.
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wrote on 4 Jan 2024, 11:46 last edited by
on the shelf in the office next door to mine.
Bathroom reading I guess
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wrote on 4 Jan 2024, 12:48 last edited by
Is there a graphic novel version available for these?
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wrote on 4 Jan 2024, 13:10 last edited by
Or even a YouTube short?
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wrote on 9 Jan 2024, 03:28 last edited by
On my trip, I read "Berlin 1936: Sixteen Days in August"
A very easy read. Basically, it looked at everyday life in Berlin during the 1936 Olympics. Focussed on ordinary citizens, a restaurant/bar owner, etc. Not too in depth, but kept my attention. A quick history lesson, or at least history background.
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wrote on 19 Jan 2024, 16:45 last edited by
This book did its job as literature. It gives solid perspectives on some eternal human questions. It's not the engrossing story of Grapes of Wrath or Of Mice and Men though.
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wrote on 20 Jan 2024, 13:18 last edited by
@bachophile, some website had a list of the "Best Spy Books."
Of course, "Tinker, Tailor..." was on the list and other well-known books.
"Damascus Station" is on that list. I've not read McCloskey's books - any good?
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wrote on 20 Jan 2024, 13:49 last edited by
Yes I enjoyed Damascus station. The author is ex CIA so I guess that helps with the realism.
But it’s not Le carre . Nothing is Le carre.
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wrote on 26 Jan 2024, 18:22 last edited by
You can read it for free here: https://d.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/text/robinson-merlin
Robinson was a fucking master. Some great lines in the first few chapters:
Time swings a mighty scythe, and some day all your peace goes down before its edge like so much clover.
You are young Gawaine, and you may one day hold the world between your fingers, knowing not what it is that you are holding. Better for you and me, I think, that we shall not be kings.
The Devil got somehow into God’s workshop once upon a time, and out of the red clay that he found there he made a shape like Modred, and another as like as eyes are to this Agravaine. ‘I never made ‘em,” said the good Lord God, ‘But let ‘em go, and see what comes of ‘em.’ And that’s what we’re to do.
