StPaulHusker Posted May 4, 2016 Share Posted May 4, 2016 Not currently reading - read it last year. But, wanted to pass it along. I thought it was an incredible book (it's written by a Holocaust survivor and is about how his experience helped him develop his theory on the meaning of one's life). I read it in a few days - it's a fairly quick read. Read this a couple of months ago. It's one I feel a person should have on their shelf and go back and re-read every once in a while to get some perspective of their life. 1 Quote Link to comment
The Dude Posted May 7, 2016 Share Posted May 7, 2016 Only 4 chapters in but it's been awesome so far. Not a long book, definitely worth a look. Quote Link to comment
NUance Posted May 23, 2016 Share Posted May 23, 2016 ^^ Just finished "Your Bible and You" by Arthur Maxwell. v v Started reading "How the Irish Saved Civilization" by Thomas Cahill Quote Link to comment
GSG Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 I started reading this series last month. I'm almost finished with the 2nd book. I guess they are technically "teen fiction" but I'm not so sure about that. Basically the story is told through journals from a 12 year old boy in 1888. His parents died in a house fire and he was taken in by his father's employer, a doctor of monstrumology (yes, study of monsters). They are fast reads so far. Lots of really gory details throughout, but I am enjoying them. This guy also wrote the '5th Wave' series. Quote Link to comment
NUance Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 Last four books I read: The Complete Biblical Library: Genesis volume. Bible commentary (in English) with original text in Hebrew provided for reference. ========================================== "Stoned, Naked, and Looking in My Neighbor's Window", compiled by Gabriel Jeffrey. It's a book of hundreds of on-line confessions about all sorts of crap. For example: 847385072 Today, while drinking at happy hour at an undisclosed chain restaurant, a disgruntled psychotic patron threw a bar stool at the bartender. In the shuffle he lost his prescription barbiturates. I stole them and just swallowed one. I hope he didn't need those pills to stop him from killing someone. ========================================== "The Picture Bible." It's the comic book version of the bible. Not half bad, actually. It only takes a week or two to read, instead of the four or five months it takes me to read the whole bible. ========================================== "The Little Book of Answers" by Doug Lennox. It provides the origins of hundreds of words and sayings. For example: Why when someone dies do we say "he bought the farm"? During the second World War, airmen introduced the term "he bought the farm" after a pilot was shot down. The expression caught on with all the armed service and meant that if you gave your life for your country, your impoverished family would receive insurance money for your death, which would help pay off the morgage on the family farm. Death for your country meant you were "buying the farm" for your parents. Quote Link to comment
huKSer Posted January 4, 2017 Share Posted January 4, 2017 Re reading Asimiov's Foundation series Quote Link to comment
B.B. Hemingway Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Nuance, What did you think of "How the Irish Saved Civilization"? Quote Link to comment
NUance Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 Nuance, What did you think of "How the Irish Saved Civilization"? It was okay, not great. But okay. There was a great discussion of St. Patrick in the book. But there wasn't much else that I found interesting. It was a fairly short book though, so it was worth the time spent reading it. Quote Link to comment
NUance Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 "Under the Banner of Heaven," by Jon Krakauer. Pretty good read. I liked his book "Into the Wild" also. I might read some of his other stuff as well. "The Fear Index," by Robert Harris. A little bit farfetched. Like Terminator meets Liar's Poker. Quote Link to comment
knapplc Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 I decided to read JRR Tolkien again. I used to read LOTR every January, but it got so I could quote pages of it at a time and it began to become a chore. I stopped many years ago, but decided to re-read the whole thing this year. I started nine or ten days ago with the Silmarillion. It's still as dark and depressing as it always seemed, but it's going much quicker for some reason. I'm reading about 30 minutes a night and I'm already halfway done. I'll pause when I get to the parts better fleshed-out in Unfinished Tales and Lost Tales I & II. There's some really good stuff in all three compilations. Quote Link to comment
ColoNoCoHusker Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 A couple I bought when they were first published: Rereading this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrique%27s_Journey Reading this for the first time; amazing the similarities to 80 years ago... https://books.google.com/books/about/Decade_of_Betrayal.html?id=f0ftCgAAQBAJ&source=kp_cover&hl=en Quote Link to comment
Moiraine Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 Been meaning to read this book for a long time. Now I finally have the motivation. If you've read it, don't spoil the ending for me. If I were to guess how it ends, I'd say probably with a semicolon. It's a choose your own adventure book. 1 Quote Link to comment
The Big Nebrowski Posted February 8, 2017 Share Posted February 8, 2017 Richard Wright, "The Outsider". IMO, his best novel, over "Native Son", and, "Black Boy". It's big time novel on the level of any great author, and Wright, in the anthologies of American literature, is grossly underrated and I would suspect that is because he was black. Wright, growing up in the Jim Crow South--had an incredibly hard life from start to finish. He endured constant semi-starvation up thru his 20s. He did enjoy a brief run of noteriety and some financial rewards, but still died rather broken in his early 50s. Quote Link to comment
B.B. Hemingway Posted February 8, 2017 Share Posted February 8, 2017 Read it through a few times as a kid. Came across it the other day at a bookstore, and grabbed it. Look forward to knocking it out again one of these evenings. Quote Link to comment
Enhance Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 Started reading this after a tweet knapplc posted in the P&R forums. As a white male, born in the late 80s, in a middle class neighborhood, racism and segregation seemed like a problem of yesteryear that wasn't an issue anymore. Naturally, as I got older, I learned a lot more about how this isn't the case, and this book is a real eye opener. It helps put into perspective how hard it has been, even in the 21st century, to undo centuries of racism. 1 Quote Link to comment
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