What are you reading Chapter 4

[ryco]

Don’t know if this should be in it’s own thread but, how many still read the King James Bible? My church uses it for all reading and reference, personally I read the New American Standard and lately the New English Bible. Some are aggressively KJ only but that ignores 2000 years of careful father research. Looking forward to quiet and peaceful replies.

Read the KJ version in Jr High early '70s and again in the late '90s as a book, meaning from beginning to end.
Read the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures three or four years ago as part of the 100 Books version of the BBC Big Read. Posted a review on What are You Reading back a bunch of pages or "Chapters". Go fish

Always an interesting read having no real emotional attachment. Certainly like The Gospels and Micheal in the New Testament.

No discussion desired. Just responding. I would recommend as a read - but it's a l o n g one! Not as long as Les Miserables, though. peace.

 

[2strings2frets]

Read the KJ version in Jr High early '70s and again in the late '90s as a book, meaning from beginning to end.
Read the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures three or four years ago as part of the 100 Books version of the BBC Big Read. Posted a review on What are You Reading back a bunch of pages or "Chapters". Go fish

Always an interesting read having no real emotional attachment. Certainly like The Gospels and Micheal in the New Testament.

No discussion desired. Just responding. I would recommend as a read - but it's a l o n g one! Not as long as Les Miserables, though. peace.

I will look at that BBC big read, thanks

 

[garp]

War Letters by Andrew Carroll

 

[ryco]

****** of the Narcissus - Joseph Conrad

Had read Lord Jim a while back and really enjoyed the story and Conrad's writing style. This was the only other Conrad book in my small town library. Sparse, very realistic style from a turn of the last century writer. If one wishes to know what it was like to work on an old iron hull sailing ship this describes the journey, the hard work, and perils of the sea. On a journey from Bombay, runs into a horrendous storm rounding the Cape of Good Hope. Then heading north to home port England the winds die around the equator as vital supplies run low.
Describes and character study of small crew and 20 sailors/deckhands. On board is a Black man who feigns sick and refuses to work, holing up in a special cabin the crew has built for him. Weird tale of guilt and tension as the crew wants him to disappear and grumble about him, and yet go beyond the pale to help this guy survive through calamities and ill health.

Inreresting. Reads fast. Dark style. About 200 pages.

 

[Bassndrums73]

Bass guitar music.

 

[Lee Moses]

 

[the harp unstrung]

I’ve heard about this!
(An interview on NPR several years ago?)

I’m glad you put that bug in my ear!

 

[Chad Michael]

Old issues of Bass Player magazine, current issues of Motor Trend mag.,

Richard Ripley author of “Against the Torrents: Adventures from the Idaho Whitewater Life” about Rusty and Darrell Bentz (white water jet boating, another hobby)

Looking to buy Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt (why we drive the way we do, and what it says about us)

 

[the harp unstrung]

...a well-spent hour...

 

[ryco]

Survival of the Sparrows - Peter Conrad

Last book read was by Joseph Conrad and next to him on the fiction shelf was a book called Survival of the Sparrows by a Mr Peter Conrad. Pulled it down and checked it out on a whim having no clue about either the author or the book's subject matter. Turns out this book was published just last year 2018 and the subject was apocolyptic tale of the takeover of the USA by an enemy army comprised of Russia, Iran, and North Korea.

Plot is a small town near Atlanta, GA is overrun by this composite enemy with no USA allies willing to help because of the abusive, uncaring, nationalistic attitute of America's President. So as kind of a modern Anne Frank story this Black couple, the Sparrows, build a false wall in the barn on their property and try and survive the onslaught of this army which is killing everybody they come across. The enemy army determines to make their actual property their main HQ and storage of tactical nuclear weapons [drones] for the attack on Atlanta, Georgia. So a story of survival as rations in this small apartment run low.

Lots of action. Lots of intense situations. Very graphic. Lots of human compassion. Story line definitely holds one's interest.
I find this kind of material very corny and preachy, but I think it's right up a lot of people's alley and train of thinking at this time.

The author is also a bass player = "I own 20 basses", so he may well be on TB. Video on his website of him backing José Feliciano.

 

[the harp unstrung]

A) I’m glad to hear about this book...happy to have it in the files. Thanks!

B) Your icon is killer.

 

[Fat Freddy]

Hi @catcauphonic

 

[the harp unstrung]

He’ll be along.

 

[ryco]

Ten Who Dared - Desmond Wilcox

About 10 reknowned explorers incl Columbus, Pizarro, Cook, Amundsen and others.

Well written. Based on an old TV series from the 70s.
A better book for this kind of stuff in The Discoverers by Daniel Boorstin.
But this book was pretty interesting. Featured a few people and journeys of which I was not aware.

 

[the harp unstrung]

Half way through this well-researched, well-written story, the question is Not “How did we lose him so young?!”...the question is: “How did he make it all the way to 27?!!”

 

[buldog5151bass]

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Once you get used to the language, it's a fantastic story. Maybe I'll read From the Earth to the Moon next.

 

[shawshank72]

 

[ryco]

Gee. That's a big book......

 

[The Owl]

 

[heatheroo1]

Just finished Night Comes to the Cumberland. Written in 1960’ its the history of Eastern Kentucky. Fairly depressing.