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I just finished "European Civilization, 2nd edition, since 1660. This book was published in 1956. Yes I read textbooks for fun.

I just started "Postwar A History of Europe since 1945" by Tony Judt. So far it's pretty good.
 
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Just read Nils Klim's travel to the world beneath (or whatever I can translate it into), A Clockwork Orange and Animal Farm for a paper on dystopian novels. A Clockwork Orange in particular was awesome.

Moving on to Shogun at some point. It better be good!
 
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Just finished Victor Wooten's "The Music Lesson", and I'm going to re-read it and spend some time pondering his points. The book wasn't what I expected, but it was a good read. Up next is The Pacific by Hugh Ambrose.
 
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TheXym said:
Just finished Victor Wooten's "The Music Lesson", and I'm going to re-read it and spend some time pondering his points. The book wasn't what I expected, but it was a good read. Up next is The Pacific by Hugh Ambrose.
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I enjoyed that book, but I liked the DVD on the same 10 points better.

...I just finished "A Peoples History of the US" about to start Brother Karamazov.

Ps. Kindle Text To Speech lets me read more than ever. 20+ books in 6 months, as opposed to my usual 2 per year.
 
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rosanne said:
Really glad you mentioned this! I didn't know that feature existed on Kindle. Is the sound very "robotic"?
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Yes compared to a human being, but no compared to other computer voices. It screws up words like "lives" and "bowed" because of their contexts and if "miss" is at the end of a sentence with a period, it says "Mississippi" but you get used to it and it actually does lend inflection to some sentences and really tries to sound less robotic.

Also TTS is disabled on certain books...apparently by publishers request but I think it also has something to do with Amazons audio book company 'Audible' as well. There are hacks to get around that though, PM me if you need that info.

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(Same edition, too)
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Great book...Stopped about halfway through 2nd foundation though...I'll get back to it after I read some other stuff though. I Robot is brilliant too BTW...probably more so than foundation IMHO.
 
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hrodbert696 said:
Well, I took my daughter to see Alice in Wonderland, and she asked if I had read the books -- and I realized I hadn't! Just excerpts from them. Embarrassing! So I'm working through Lewis Carroll now.
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Yes, the nicely illustrated editions really add so much. And
then you have 'Through the Looking Glass' to look forward to.

Not sure how old your daughter is, but many years ago I read
mine the L. Frank Baum series. (Must be hardcover with the
original illustrations and color plates, you can find them used.)

Those are wonderful fantasies to share with a child. I especially
remember enjoying Tik-Tok of Oz and Glinda of Oz
as nice books though there are many more that were written.

For young fellows, when you are having no TV or no computer
day at home, the Edgar Rice Burroughs books about John Carter
and his adventures with Dejah Thoris, a Princess of Mars, can
be quite captivating, as are his Tarzan novels.

There is a separate thread here somewhere on Conan The
Barbarian and Robert E. Howard. Well worth the time of the
little warriors.

Anyway, since we touched on classic fiction, those are some
of the best I have read.
 
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Thor said:
Yes, the nicely illustrated editions really add so much. And
then you have 'Through the Looking Glass' to look forward to.

Not sure how old your daughter is, but many years ago I read
mine the L. Frank Baum series. (Must be hardcover with the
original illustrations and color plates, you can find them used.)

Those are wonderful fantasies to share with a child. I especially
remember enjoying Tik-Tok of Oz and Glinda of Oz
as nice books though there are many more that were written.

For young fellows, when you are having no TV or no computer
day at home, the Edgar Rice Burroughs books about John Carter
and his adventures with Dejah Thoris, a Princess of Mars, can
be quite captivating, as are his Tarzan novels.

There is a separate thread here somewhere on Conan The
Barbarian and Robert E. Howard. Well worth the time of the
little warriors.

Anyway, since we touched on classic fiction, those are some
of the best I have read.
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She's 13 and had read them -- that was part of the embarrassment, since I'm always reminding them how much more important books are than movies. I did read them the Wizard of Oz when she was about 8 (she's the middle of our elder three). Hmmm I wonder how my son would like John Carter or Conan... he may be coming up to the age for it.
 
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