Still working form home and will be for at least the next 5 weeks. Time to brush up on Ancient History:
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What are you reading Chapter 4
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Stanislaw Lem is one of the (sadly) under appreciated masters of science fiction. Solaris is a real classic.
Dale Brown's 'Flight of the old dog'...circa 1987. Shoulda been made a movie.
Hunt for Red October (again) and as usual the book is always better. It's harder to get in all the details in a movie vs a book maybe because of time constraints and budgets I guess.
Hunt for Red October (again) and as usual the book is always better. It's harder to get in all the details in a movie vs a book maybe because of time constraints and budgets I guess.
Crossing The Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil, Michael C. Ruppert, 2004 (seventh printing, 2012), New Society Publishers
I bought this book along with a whole bunch of other reference material on the Arts & Crafts, from a friend of mine who is and A&C dealer (I've bought several Stickley pieces from him, too over the years). Just started on reading it, yesterday.
Charles made the most unique furniture of anyone during the turn of the 19th century, akin to the wacky pottery of George Ohr.
charles rohlfs
Charles made the most unique furniture of anyone during the turn of the 19th century, akin to the wacky pottery of George Ohr.
charles rohlfs
Brandon Sanderson's The Way of Kings. I have to give my mate the credit for reigniting my boyhood love of fantasy when he bought me this book for my birthday. Really enjoying it. It's also gotten me back into writing my own, and drawing fantasy maps.
Also reading Anne Fadiman's Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader. I can't recommend this enough if you're interested in reading itself.
Also reading Anne Fadiman's Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader. I can't recommend this enough if you're interested in reading itself.
Xenophon's essay on hunting with dogs.
Well, you did ask
Well, you did ask
Usually have two or three books on the go at any one time, currently it’s Heretics of Dune (out of loyalty, the series seems to get worse as it goes along but the first one is just so good) and the Last Headbangers, a history of the NFL in the ‘70s. My sis got me Craig Brown’s One-Two-Three-Four for my birthday but I’m saving it up for when I’ve finished those two.
Also, not books but incredible writing anyway, I’m currently halfway through the Complete Larry Sanders box set. Hey Now!
The Second World War by Martin Gilbert (Holt Paperbacks, 1991).
I think of my father every day, but the recent 75th anniversary of VE Day made me recall some the very few stories that he relayed to me of his service during WWII. I will probably delve once again in Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation next, and maybe some of Stephen E. Ambrose's books as well.
It's in a collection, "The Shorter Writings", edited by Gregory McBrayer, published by Cornell. Each work is accompanied by an intro and there is a consistent critical approach which frequently sees a philosophy or a political message aimed at the cognoscenti of the day beneath a veneer of pedagogy (the hunting essay) or outright irony (The Regime of the Athenians).
"The Regime of the Athenians", is the real reason I bought the book. It has been thought to be wrongly attributed to X (authorship is sometimes given as The Old Oligarch) but these guys present a new interpretation and argue in his favor.
I cannot begin to tell you how fascinating this book was. So much so that I wish someone would pick up the mantle and carry it forward from where this stopped ( in the 1940's ). It is an astonishing look at history. Not just bread.
Reckless: My Life as a Pretender - Chrissie Hynde
Small book. Took forever to get through. Not all that interesting, not very well written. Most of the book is about her growing up and being rebelious in school. The kind of book "I went over here and did this and then did that." Escaped Akron, Ohio moved to London and Paris. Hanging around the burgeoning punk crowd.
The last maybe fifth of the book is about her time forming The Pretenders.
Maybe you would find it more interesting than I. LOVED playing her songs back in the day. Was hoping to hear a little more about music, her songwriting process, and recording.
Small book. Took forever to get through. Not all that interesting, not very well written. Most of the book is about her growing up and being rebelious in school. The kind of book "I went over here and did this and then did that." Escaped Akron, Ohio moved to London and Paris. Hanging around the burgeoning punk crowd.
The last maybe fifth of the book is about her time forming The Pretenders.
Maybe you would find it more interesting than I. LOVED playing her songs back in the day. Was hoping to hear a little more about music, her songwriting process, and recording.
@ryco, totally agree with that review of Reckless. I was quite disappointed by it...her main purpose seemed to be showing what a cool bad girl she was.
