Title: What Books are you interested in reading over the Christmas Holidays & New Year?
Post by: J0E on December 17, 2015, 10:35:13 PM
Post by: J0E on December 17, 2015, 10:35:13 PM
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Post by: Anonymous on December 17, 2015, 10:45:15 PM
Post by: Anonymous on December 17, 2015, 10:45:15 PM
Here's a couple I'd like dig into:Quote from: "J0E"
1)The War of the Worldby Niall Ferguson - because it helps us to better understand the times we live in. Endless war, endless conflict, clash of the civilizations. (//%3C/s%3E%3CURL%20url=%22http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513A9MlOvvL._SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_.jpg%22%3E%3CLINK_TEXT%20text=%22http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5%20...%20_QL40_.jpg%22%3Ehttp://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513A9MlOvvL._SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_.jpg%3C/LINK_TEXT%3E%3C/URL%3E%3Ce%3E)
2)The Handmaid's Taleby Margaret Atwood - because it describes how the social fabric of the United States is about to unfold & how it may look in the future. (//%3C/s%3E%3CURL%20url=%22http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51LBBJIyRIL._SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_.jpg%22%3E%3CLINK_TEXT%20text=%22http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5%20...%20_QL40_.jpg%22%3Ehttp://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51LBBJIyRIL._SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_.jpg%3C/LINK_TEXT%3E%3C/URL%3E%3Ce%3E)
3)Satanic Versesby Salman Rushdie - because it portrays the source of fury behind Fundamentalist Islam and how we and even the Muslim World can better cope with it. (//%3C/s%3E%3CURL%20url=%22http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51bgaSsivQL._AA160_.jpg%22%3E%3CLINK_TEXT%20text=%22http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5%20...%20AA160_.jpg%22%3Ehttp://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51bgaSsivQL._AA160_.jpg%3C/LINK_TEXT%3E%3C/URL%3E%3Ce%3E)
4)The Koran- in order to understand what may soon become the world's dominant religion & why it is causing so much unrest in the world today (//%3C/s%3E%3CURL%20url=%22http://img1.imagesbn.com/p/9780913321010_p0_v4_s260x420.JPG%22%3E%3CLINK_TEXT%20text=%22http://img1.imagesbn.com/p/978091332101%20...%2060x420.JPG%22%3Ehttp://img1.imagesbn.com/p/9780913321010_p0_v4_s260x420.JPG%3C/LINK_TEXT%3E%3C/URL%3E%3Ce%3E)
IS this a hint for your special lady to buy you JOE?
These are excellent Christmas gift suggestions and thank you.
Title: Re: What Books are you interested in reading over the Christmas Holidays & New Year?
Post by: Anonymous on December 17, 2015, 10:51:59 PM
Post by: Anonymous on December 17, 2015, 10:51:59 PM
Title: Re: What Books are you interested in reading over the Christmas Holidays & New Year?
Post by: Anonymous on December 17, 2015, 11:03:38 PM
Post by: Anonymous on December 17, 2015, 11:03:38 PM
All the books I have read recently have been informational. I have not read a book just for the enjoyment of it in some time.Quote from: "seoulbro"
I mostly do my daily devotionals, but I have many inspirational books at home and on our Kobo reader written by Christian writers..
I should buy one of ghost's books for my daughter.
Title: Re: What Books are you interested in reading over the Christmas Holidays & New Year?
Post by: Anonymous on December 18, 2015, 01:01:49 AM
Post by: Anonymous on December 18, 2015, 01:01:49 AM
These are excellent Christmas gift suggestions and thank you.
ac_smile
No, they are not. They are books you would see in boxes at yard sales.
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Post by: Anonymous on December 18, 2015, 01:19:46 AM
Post by: Anonymous on December 18, 2015, 01:19:46 AM
These are excellent Christmas gift suggestions and thank you.
ac_smile
No, they are not. They are books you would see in boxes at yard sales.
Title: Re: What Books are you interested in reading over the Christmas Holidays & New Year?
Post by: Renee on December 18, 2015, 07:33:14 AM
Post by: Renee on December 18, 2015, 07:33:14 AM
These are excellent Christmas gift suggestions and thank you.
ac_smile
No, they are not. They are books you would see in boxes at yard sales.
:001_rolleyes:
Sorry, I have to agree with Shen on that. They are all volumes of bullshit, bound in speculative hogwash, written to capitalize monetarily on the geopolitical tribulations of our current time and nothing more.
Title: Re: What Books are you interested in reading over the Christmas Holidays & New Year?
Post by: Anonymous on December 18, 2015, 08:59:18 AM
Post by: Anonymous on December 18, 2015, 08:59:18 AM
These are excellent Christmas gift suggestions and thank you.
ac_smile
No, they are not. They are books you would see in boxes at yard sales.
:001_rolleyes:
Sorry, I have to agree with Shen on that. They are all volumes of bullshit, bound in speculative hogwash, written to capitalize monetarily on the geopolitical tribulations of our current time and nothing more.
I haven't read any of them, so I can't dispute that.
Title: Re: What Books are you interested in reading over the Christmas Holidays & New Year?
Post by: Renee on December 18, 2015, 09:09:23 AM
Post by: Renee on December 18, 2015, 09:09:23 AM
These are excellent Christmas gift suggestions and thank you.
ac_smile
No, they are not. They are books you would see in boxes at yard sales.
:001_rolleyes:
Sorry, I have to agree with Shen on that. They are all volumes of bullshit, bound in speculative hogwash, written to capitalize monetarily on the geopolitical tribulations of our current time and nothing more.
I haven't read any of them, so I can't dispute that.
I haven't read any of them either but I'm familiar with couple of the authors and their political and ideological stance. I have no doubt their writings are slanted toward their political and social point of view. The value these books have in a historical or real world sense is dubious at best.
I'm pretty sure Joe pulled them off of the Amazon Kindle free book list.
As for me...I think I'm going to read the "Tartan Dragon".
Title: Re: What Books are you interested in reading over the Christmas Holidays & New Year?
Post by: Anonymous on December 18, 2015, 09:21:12 AM
Post by: Anonymous on December 18, 2015, 09:21:12 AM
These are excellent Christmas gift suggestions and thank you.
ac_smile
No, they are not. They are books you would see in boxes at yard sales.
:001_rolleyes:
Sorry, I have to agree with Shen on that. They are all volumes of bullshit, bound in speculative hogwash, written to capitalize monetarily on the geopolitical tribulations of our current time and nothing more.
I haven't read any of them, so I can't dispute that.
I haven't read any of them either butI'm familiar with couple of the authors and their political and ideological stance. I have no doubt their writings are slanted toward their political and social point of view. The value these books have in a historical or real world sense is dubious at best.I'm pretty sure Joe pulled them off of the Amazon Kindle free book list. :laugh:
That could be Renee..
It doesn't matter because I was not thinking of buying any of them..
Nobody in my family has been asking for any of those books for Christmas.
Title: Re: What Books are you interested in reading over the Christmas Holidays & New Year?
Post by: J0E on December 18, 2015, 02:37:36 PM
Post by: J0E on December 18, 2015, 02:37:36 PM
These are excellent Christmas gift suggestions and thank you.
ac_smile
No, they are not. They are books you would see in boxes at yard sales.
:001_rolleyes:
Sorry, I have to agree with Shen on that. They are all volumes of bullshit, bound in speculative hogwash, written to capitalize monetarily on the geopolitical tribulations of our current time and nothing more.
I haven't read any of them, so I can't dispute that.
I haven't read any of them either but I'm familiar with couple of the authors and their political and ideological stance. I have no doubt their writings are slanted toward their political and social point of view. The value these books have in a historical or real world sense is dubious at best.I'm pretty sure Joe pulled them off of the Amazon Kindle free book list. :laugh:
As for me...I think I'm going to read the "Tartan Dragon".ac_biggrin
...Not really, Renn.
...if yer not inerested in the book, then perhaps the TV series would interest you?
Or,
Anyways Renn, a 1st ed. of Salman Rushdie's
I'm still tryin' ta git hold of a copy of the English version of Koran as well.
anyways, share some of yer reads here, eh Renn?
We're all waitin'.
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Post by: Anonymous on December 18, 2015, 02:41:06 PM
Post by: Anonymous on December 18, 2015, 02:41:06 PM
These are excellent Christmas gift suggestions and thank you.
ac_smile
No, they are not. They are books you would see in boxes at yard sales.
:001_rolleyes:
Sorry, I have to agree with Shen on that. They are all volumes of bullshit, bound in speculative hogwash, written to capitalize monetarily on the geopolitical tribulations of our current time and nothing more.
I haven't read any of them, so I can't dispute that.
I haven't read any of them either but I'm familiar with couple of the authors and their political and ideological stance. I have no doubt their writings are slanted toward their political and social point of view. The value these books have in a historical or real world sense is dubious at best.I'm pretty sure Joe pulled them off of the Amazon Kindle free book list. :laugh:
As for me...I think I'm going to read the "Tartan Dragon".ac_biggrin
...Not really, Renn.War of the Worldwas authored by noted British Historian Niall Ferguson in which he essentially describes the 20th century & perhaps the one we're living in, as 100+ years of continuous non-stop war. It was even made into a TV series on the BBC:
...if yer not inerested in the book, then perhaps the TV series would interest you?
Or,The Handmaid's Taleby Canadian writer Margaret Atwood, written over 25 years ago, also made on the screen is about a post-apocalyptic America which evolves into a totaliltarian state that has control its remaining women capable of bearing children for it:
Anyways Renn, a 1st ed. of Salman Rushdie'sSatanic Versesis worth well over $100. Saw it at a vintage bookstore, eh? Lotta people mistaken for him died at the hands of assassians, so it's nuthin' ta sneeze at.
I'm still tryin' ta git hold of a copy of the English version of Koran as well.
anyways, share some of yer reads here, eh Renn?
We're all waitin'.
Title: Re: What Books are you interested in reading over the Christmas Holidays & New Year?
Post by: Renee on December 18, 2015, 04:42:05 PM
Post by: Renee on December 18, 2015, 04:42:05 PM
by Jared M. Diamond
by Merrill Jensen
by David McCullough
by Carl Sandburg
by Edmund Morris
by Barbara W. Tuchman
by Barbara W. Tuchman
If you read the above works you get real history, not some history fit for a dumbed-down TV program or some science fiction crap disguised as social commentary.
Lighter fair
by Jeff Shaara
by Helen Hollick
by Helen Hollick
by Herman Melville
by Alexandre Dumas
by Charlotte Brontë
by Mary Stewart
by Frank Herbert
by Bernard Cornwell
These are books that I have already read and would read again if time allowed. As for new reads, I haven't give it much thought. Too busy with life right now to sit on my fat ass and immerse myself in a book.
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Post by: Anonymous on December 18, 2015, 07:45:51 PM
Post by: Anonymous on December 18, 2015, 07:45:51 PM
Since Joe wants to know some of my must reads, here they are but NOT limited to:Quote from: "Renee"Historical:Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared M. DiamondThe Founding of a Nation: A History of the American Revolution, 1763-1776
by Merrill Jensen1776
by David McCulloughAbraham Lincoln: The War Years(All four volumes)
by Carl SandburgTheodore Rex
by Edmund MorrisA Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
by Barbara W. TuchmanThe March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
by Barbara W. Tuchman
If you read the above works you get real history, not some history fit for a dumbed-down TV program or some science fiction crap disguised as social commentary.:laugh3:
Lighter fairHistorical / Fiction:Gods and Generals....The Killer Angels....The Last Full Measure
by Jeff ShaaraHarold the King
by Helen HollickHollow Crown
by Helen HollickThe Classics:Moby Dick
by Herman MelvilleThe Three Musketeers
by Alexandre DumasJane Eyre
by Charlotte BrontëScience Fiction / Fantasy:The Merlin Trilogy....(The Chrystal Cave, the Hollow Hills, The last Enchantment)
by Mary StewartDune(skip the follow-up books)
by Frank HerbertThe Saxon Chronicles.....The Last Kingdom, The Pale Horseman, The Lords of the North, Sword Song, The Burning Land
by Bernard Cornwell
These are books that I have already read and would read again if time allowed. As for new reads, I haven't give it much thought. Too busy with life right now to sit on my fat ass and immerse myself in a book.
Thank you Renee.
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Post by: RW on December 20, 2015, 04:42:31 PM
Post by: RW on December 20, 2015, 04:42:31 PM
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Post by: Anonymous on December 20, 2015, 05:06:19 PM
Post by: Anonymous on December 20, 2015, 05:06:19 PM
I wish I could finish Crime and Punishment. I fall asleep when I read now :(Quote from: "RW"
You are an egghead RW.
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Post by: RW on December 20, 2015, 05:10:27 PM
Post by: RW on December 20, 2015, 05:10:27 PM
Title: Re: What Books are you interested in reading over the Christmas Holidays & New Year?
Post by: Anonymous on December 20, 2015, 05:16:53 PM
Post by: Anonymous on December 20, 2015, 05:16:53 PM
I totally am hahaQuote from: "RW"
I wish I was too.
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Post by: Bricktop on December 20, 2015, 06:01:01 PM
Post by: Bricktop on December 20, 2015, 06:01:01 PM
Sorry, I have to agree with Shen on that. They are all volumes of bullshit, bound in speculative hogwash, written to capitalize monetarily on the geopolitical tribulations of our current time and nothing more.
Put another way, none have been made into a movie by Hollyweird, so Renee has no idea what they are about.
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Post by: Anonymous on December 20, 2015, 06:09:04 PM
Post by: Anonymous on December 20, 2015, 06:09:04 PM
Sorry, I have to agree with Shen on that. They are all volumes of bullshit, bound in speculative hogwash, written to capitalize monetarily on the geopolitical tribulations of our current time and nothing more.
Put another way, none have been made into a movie by Hollyweird, so Renee has no idea what they are about.
That would be me, but not Renee. She's as much an egghead as RW.
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Post by: Bricktop on December 20, 2015, 06:14:43 PM
Post by: Bricktop on December 20, 2015, 06:14:43 PM
She is egg-shaped.
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Post by: Renee on December 20, 2015, 07:55:57 PM
Post by: Renee on December 20, 2015, 07:55:57 PM
Sorry, I have to agree with Shen on that. They are all volumes of bullshit, bound in speculative hogwash, written to capitalize monetarily on the geopolitical tribulations of our current time and nothing more.
Put another way, none have been made into a movie by Hollyweird, so Renee has no idea what they are about.
Another moronic lame post.
Actually I'm surprised to see you in a thread concerning books. Most Aussies have no use for them unless they need to hold a door open.
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Post by: RW on December 20, 2015, 08:06:58 PM
Post by: RW on December 20, 2015, 08:06:58 PM
She is not an egghead.Quote from: "Mr Crowley"
She is egg-shaped.
Are you saying I'm fat?
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Post by: Renee on December 20, 2015, 08:18:24 PM
Post by: Renee on December 20, 2015, 08:18:24 PM
She is not an egghead.Quote from: "Mr Crowley"
She is egg-shaped.
Are you saying I'm fat?
No he's saying I'm fat. Like that's something clever or original.
Your boyfriend is a fucking Alzheimer's patient. That's what you get when you comb retirement homes for dates.
You really need to start trading up.
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Post by: RW on December 20, 2015, 08:24:46 PM
Post by: RW on December 20, 2015, 08:24:46 PM
I just don't understand how saying I'm egg shaped is calling you fat.
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Post by: Anonymous on December 22, 2015, 09:26:35 AM
Post by: Anonymous on December 22, 2015, 09:26:35 AM
Oh you two. Never a dull moment.Quote from: "RW"
I just don't understand how saying I'm egg shaped is calling you fat.
Egg shaped?
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Post by: RW on December 22, 2015, 12:40:53 PM
Post by: RW on December 22, 2015, 12:40:53 PM
Title: Re: What Books are you interested in reading over the Christmas Holidays & New Year?
Post by: J0E on December 22, 2015, 05:24:14 PM
Post by: J0E on December 22, 2015, 05:24:14 PM
Date: 1949Quote
Publication: Genius and the Mobocracy (Hard Cover - DJ) (Published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York)
Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd
Description: Shortly before his death in 1924, Louis Sullivan gave Frank Lloyd Wright 100 of his drawings, instructing him to write his architectural biography. "Not having so much to be humbled about, I have tried - with honest arrogance - to describes the tragedy, triumph, and significance of the great man who invariably signed himself Louis H. Sullivan; to tell you why I, through never his disciple - nor that of any man - called him Liebermeister. His own beautiful drawings, from which I have selected those used here, are better testimonies than any I could offer in words." Frank Lloyd Wright. Illustrated with 39 hitherto unpublished drawings by Louis H. Sullivan. Original HC List Price $5.00. Book review in Saturday Review. (First Edition) (Two Copies) (Sweeney 750)
Size:
Pages: Pp 113
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Post by: RW on December 22, 2015, 05:54:51 PM
Post by: RW on December 22, 2015, 05:54:51 PM