Books... What are you reading? And what do you recommend?

MichaelColeman

MichaelColeman

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BarnBuster said:
I gotta admit, I haven't read any of the 10 books they listed but shouldn't any questionable literature (offered in a library)
be read and discussed by both parent and child? What was the takeaway to the child? What was the author trying to convey. :(
it is much easier to read the short content when needed as here with the cause and effect essay. Or you can look online as below.

www.theatlantic.com

This Is a Shakedown

Texas has a book-banning problem.
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All 850 Books Texas Lawmaker Matt Krause Wants to Ban: An Analysis

Here are all some stats and highlights from the list of 850 books Matt Krause wants removed from school libraries, including most ironic pick.
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I agree with you, I'm not a fan of books either, I like movies more.
 
BarnBuster

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Killing the killers : the secret war against terrorists / Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard.
Andy Warhol was a hoarder : inside the minds of history's great personalities / Claudia Kalb.
Understanding hoarding : reclaim your space and your life / Jo Cooke.
Stay off my operating table : a heart surgeon's metabolic health guide to lose weight, prevent disease, and feel your best every day / Philip Ovadia.
Uranium : war, energy, and the rock that shaped the world / Tom Zoellner.
The First Family detail : Secret Service agents reveal the hidden lives of the presidents / Ronald Kessler.

Usually I don't list any fiction books I'm reading but heres's 4 exceptions if you like British historical 18th century Naval fiction. In the age of Google we can just look up the archaic nomenclature specific to sailing at that time. If you want to do it the old fashioned way, pick up John Harland's "Seamanship in the Age of Sail" and the nautical dictionary "The Sailor's Word-book"
Man of war / Sean Parnell.
Kydd : a novel / Julian Stockwin.

Following is a new author for me, probably the best I've read in describing surface engagements of the era.
Under enemy colors / S. Thomas Russell.
A battle won / S. Thomas Russell.
 
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Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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smolka151 said:
I recently read a book called To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. I found it to be quite an interesting book. If anyone hasn't read it, I recommend it.
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anyone over 50 has read it, it used to be required reading before politicians started banning books that made it harder for them to get people to stop thinking for themselves.
the movie with Gregory Peck was actually pretty good, stayed pretty close to the novel.
 
injinji

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Hiphophippo said:
Be honest I haven’t read any books in a while the last full book I read was full dark no stars a Stephen king collection but I do keep my audible on and am currently listening to the pillars of the earth.
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Over half of the upstairs at my house is library, but I only read in waiting rooms these days. I spent over half of my life with a book in my hand. Of late I have hung it up.

I was a big SK fan. At least the early stuff. He was never the same after getting run over by the dude going to the store for (insert Maine accent here) Mars bars.
 
Hiphophippo

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You gotta love the classics. I will say that I have had an extremely hard pull towards reading a lot of World War I war literature from both sides the Austrian Hungarian empire as well as the French and a few of the American stories as well and I find every single one of them very intriguing influential and insightful here’s a small list of a few that are really good reads and will give you a really good fresh perspective of what it must’ve been like then.
"The First World War" by Hew Strachan
"All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque
"The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916" by Alistair Horne
 
Hiphophippo

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injinji said:
Over half of the upstairs at my house is library, but I only read in waiting rooms these days. I spent over half of my life with a book in my hand. Of late I have hung it up.

I was a big SK fan. At least the early stuff. He was never the same after getting run over by the dude going to the store for (insert Maine accent here) Mars bars.
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Totally agree I love his early in depth stories so much have either read or listened to all of them Multiple times. But how many people expect The Rolling Stones to still pump out number one hits. I think the last book I really enjoyed besides dr sleep would be under the dome the show was ugh! But the book was flipping amazing
 
injinji

injinji

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Hiphophippo said:
Totally agree I love his early in depth stories so much have either read or listened to all of them Multiple times. But how many people expect The Rolling Stones to still pump out number one hits. I think the last book I really enjoyed besides dr sleep would be under the dome the show was ugh! But the book was flipping amazing
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The dark tower series was my last SK. Gotta love the Lobstrosities.
 
Hiphophippo

Hiphophippo

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I like this thread as I used to read a lot I was raised to believe you had to read a lot to have a good vocabulary and to actually understand our past and many different perspectives on all things I went through phases where I was into early folklore literature and philosophical stuff like metamorphosis or Dante’s divine comedy and the Canterbury tales then I loved reading everything aldous Huxley and early 20th century them I started reading a lot of either horror or non fiction war stuff I’m kind of all over the place but I think that’s how you should read it gives you a more worldly approach to thinking sorry for punctuation it was voice to text
 
Hiphophippo

Hiphophippo

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injinji said:
The dark tower series was my last SK. Gotta love the Lobstrosities.
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One of the best book series of all time the movie was a waste of time for one Roland is a racists piece of shit how is he going to be black in the movie it drove me nuts it might have well been called something completely different like shit fest
 
shnkrmn

shnkrmn

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injinji said:
Over half of the upstairs at my house is library, but I only read in waiting rooms these days. I spent over half of my life with a book in my hand. Of late I have hung it up.

I was a big SK fan. At least the early stuff. He was never the same after getting run over by the dude going to the store for (insert Maine accent here) Mars bars.
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I'll go out on a limb and rank SK in the company of Mark Twain. His impact on our culture is as profound.
 
Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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injinji said:
I was a big SK fan. At least the early stuff. He was never the same after getting run over by the dude going to the store for (insert Maine accent here) Mars bars.
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if you haven't read the dark tower...do, King writes himself into the books, and describes the guy who ran him over in pretty graphic detail...it's interesting, even if you only read that couple of pages
 
shnkrmn

shnkrmn

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Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders is an excellent piece of work. It defies description but has a powerful and emotional style that draws you into a unique state. 2017 winner of the Man Booker prize.
 
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