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« Reply #150 on: November 14, 2009, 03:56:52 PM » |
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I just finished reading The Portable Atheist by Christopher Hitchens. I especially liked the poetry, Mark Twain's views of God, and finding out that clergy both in American and England were against electricity. They figured that if lightning was electricity and that electricity could be manipulated, then man was playing God. When quakes hit an area, the clergy said that it was the wrath of God seeking vengeance for installing lightning rods. Lightning rods were an attempt to thwart the will of God. : )
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« Reply #151 on: November 18, 2009, 04:38:56 AM » |
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I found a book that I borrowed from a neighbor called: Time Minus One by Leo E. Supina.
On the front cover it says: Story Of The Earth, It's Inhabitants And How They Came To Be.
My neighbor told me it was his uncle and that he was a Physicist and writes about our quest for immortality. Very interesting book.
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« Reply #152 on: November 18, 2009, 04:53:13 AM » |
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I just bought 'Under the Dome' yesterday. I still buy Stephen King books when they come out. Every few or so, he has a good one. |
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« Reply #153 on: November 18, 2009, 08:15:51 PM » |
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I like Steven King books, I've yet to read a bad one, and some of them are true gems.
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« Reply #154 on: November 18, 2009, 08:40:43 PM » |
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I stopped reading King sometime in the early 1990's. I think I read every book of his prior to that time. What's the best book he's written since 1995?
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« Reply #155 on: November 19, 2009, 02:06:23 AM » |
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IMO, Dark Tower. I'm a big fan of 'The Talisman' ( Although 'Talisman' is before 1995.)and it's sequel 'Black House', co-authored with Peter Straub. I don't care for Straub by himself though. Curious to see what Kerlyssa likes. |
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« Reply #156 on: November 19, 2009, 11:01:14 AM » |
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« Reply #157 on: November 19, 2009, 11:06:19 AM » |
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"The winter of our discontent" by Steinbeck.
Always looking for new ideas :)
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« Reply #158 on: November 19, 2009, 11:08:44 AM » |
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An axiom is a proposition that defeats its opponents by the fact that they have to accept it and use it in the process of any attempt to deny it. - Ayn Rand
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« Reply #159 on: November 19, 2009, 12:08:56 PM » |
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The Dark Tower series. Also might want to check out The Man In the Black Suit. A very good short story. http://www.stephenking.com/library/written_old-new.html |
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« Reply #160 on: December 03, 2009, 11:45:07 AM » |
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I'm interested in reading Under the Dome.
Right now I'm reading Dan Brown's newest "The Lost Symbol" . Pretty good - typical Dan Brown thriller.
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« Reply #161 on: December 03, 2009, 01:11:19 PM » |
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Dan Brown writes so that you're not aware of how stupid his books are until after you're done with them. I give him a tentative  . |
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« Reply #162 on: December 04, 2009, 02:46:33 AM » |
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Sorry Assy you have to change your main pic. That one is a mass murderer IMO.  |
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« Reply #163 on: December 05, 2009, 03:06:21 PM » |
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I'm interested in reading Under the Dome.
I just got done with Under the Dome last week. It's OK but not one of SK's best. Characters are very well developed in true SK style of "good" vs. "evil". Reminded me of The Stand, but no where near as epic. Right now I'm reading "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy. Very sad and bleak, but very well written and very moving. Makes you wonder where God is in the Godforsaken world of this story. |
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« Reply #164 on: December 08, 2009, 12:02:30 PM » |
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"The Pilgrim's Progress" by Bunyan.
This book is amazing, a real classic of English literature. It is hard to believe this story is over 300 years old, I think Bunyan would be considered an extremely dexterous and clever author if he were writing today.
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« Reply #165 on: December 16, 2009, 01:58:58 AM » |
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nine Horses by Billy Collins. -Poems.
?Thank you again, Maritime for sending it to me. the poetry beautifully worded. I'm savoring it.
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« Reply #166 on: December 16, 2009, 02:14:09 AM » |
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i like some of the old Crumb. Damn iconic genuis. How do you rate his new stuff? I have a Tommy toilet seragraph, signed. God bless EBay
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« Reply #167 on: January 02, 2010, 08:15:31 PM » |
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« Reply #168 on: January 04, 2010, 02:50:51 PM » |
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I'm currently reading a book by J.H.Merle D'augbine titled The history of the reformation.It is really giving me a greater appreciation for the freedom I have to have read my Bible and the freedom in our culture,when I see the price that was paid by others who broke free from controlling powers.I think the freedom we have in our western culture owes a lot to the reformation.It is amazing to me as I search the lives of people such as Luther,how ignorant many of us are of history.History is beccoming a more fascinating study for me.
This book is over 700 pages long and the pages are huge!but there is some real meat in its content,I am currently just over half way through,and would highly recommend the book if you are a history buff!
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« Reply #169 on: January 04, 2010, 02:53:45 PM » |
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I've just finished Hamlet, my first serious attempt at reading Shakespeare, and I loved it. I've got a lot to learn, now.
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« Reply #170 on: January 04, 2010, 09:18:00 PM » |
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I've just finished Hamlet... Ah, to finish a book...I am so easily side-tracked...I did finish Krakatoa and I'm at page 204 in Darwin's Voyage. Two short stories recently finished, Dickens' A Christmas Carol and R. L. Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ("No, sir. I make it a rule of mine: the more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask.") Meanwhile, T. Dalrymple's Our Culture, What's Left of It:The Mandarins and The Masses has been an interesting read; bits of Macbeth and Measure for Measure provided relevant insight for two of his essays ("... Shakespeare's answers to the questions he raises are subtle...he is a realist without cynicism and an idealist without utopianism. He knows that the tension between men as they are and men as they ought to be will forever remain unresolved. Man's imperfectibility is no more an excuse for total permissiveness, however, than are man's imperfections a reason for inflexible intolerance.") I should finish Merchant of Venice; I watched the film (2004) with A. Pacino and did not like the ending! I started Measure for Measure because of a quote used by another author ("The jewel that we find we stoop and take't because we see it; but what we do not see we tread upon and never think of it." Act II) but have put it back on the shelf. I do have Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet. When the time is right. My most recent diversion, which I'm sure I will finish and not set aside, is S. Huler's Defining the Wind. |
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« Reply #171 on: January 06, 2010, 04:19:15 PM » |
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I've just finished Hamlet, my first serious attempt at reading Shakespeare, and I loved it. I've got a lot to learn, now.
Far out! I see that you also got into the sonnets a bit. Do you know the difference between a Spenserian Sonnet and a Shakespearian? |
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« Reply #172 on: January 12, 2010, 02:53:36 AM » |
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Jim the BoyI don't even remember when or where I picked it up but it's light and requires little attention or thought, which is right up my alley at the moment. 
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« Reply #173 on: January 12, 2010, 08:53:24 AM » |
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I've just finished Hamlet, my first serious attempt at reading Shakespeare, and I loved it. I've got a lot to learn, now.
Far out! I see that you also got into the sonnets a bit. Do you know the difference between a Spenserian Sonnet and a Shakespearian? I do now :) I haven't read many of Shakespeare's sonnets, that one just took my fancy. I'm reading King Lear next. |
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« Reply #174 on: January 12, 2010, 10:34:45 AM » |
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Far out! I see that you also got into the sonnets a bit. Do you know the difference between a Spenserian Sonnet and a Shakespearian?
I do now :) I haven't read many of Shakespeare's sonnets, that one just took my fancy. I'm reading King Lear next. Ok, kewl, I just wanted to be sure you were aware of the amazing power Shakespeare packs into his final couplet. Wow! "Lear?" Terrific! Bump "The Tempest" up on your list. Oh, and if you get the chance to see an imaginative production of any of the plays jump for it. |
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« Reply #175 on: January 20, 2010, 01:54:26 AM » |
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« Reply #176 on: February 25, 2010, 04:19:09 AM » |
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Having quite enjoyed the previous foray into Religion Science Fiction in "The Sparrow" I have just bought and started this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_(Simmons_novel) but too early to say if it is any good. |
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« Reply #177 on: February 25, 2010, 09:27:07 AM » |
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I started a new Jodi Piccoult book the other day - - Keeping Faith. About a young daughter of a jewish (in name only) agnostic woman. She's talking to God and experiencing Stigmata and stuff like that. Not sure how it's going to play out..................  |
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« Reply #178 on: February 25, 2010, 10:02:18 AM » |
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war and peace and pride and prejudice together How pompous am I,  E :) www.gutenberg.org I found the text files here, this is a real goldmine !!! |
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Time to eat all your words, swallow your pride, open your eyes... (Tears for fears)
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« Reply #179 on: February 25, 2010, 10:59:39 AM » |
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Jill, sounds like an unusual read, i'm reading pilgrims regress by C.S. Lewis at the moment, just got through reading a book called reinventing Jesus, both great reads for me.  |
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