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Re: Good books
« Reply #100 on: May 11, 2017, 04:31:12 am »
I collect the old MAD magazine books from the 50s to the 70s. Got nigh on 50 of them now - just missing 5, I think. Love the style of humor they had then. Now though ... Ecch.

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Re: Good books
« Reply #101 on: May 12, 2017, 10:40:01 pm »
Finally read Fahrenheit 451, somehow I escaped skrool without reading this one. Highly recommend it. The tech in the book may be a little dated, but the wall size TV's and people with earbuds in all the time certainly haven't changed.

I must say the only criticism was of Bradbury's similes. We get it: things are like other things. But it's not off putting I read thought it in two sittings. And of course my general critique of science fiction: Sci Fi Ending just when things are getting started for the next 1000 years.  :laugh: I suppose it was supposed to leave me with questions.
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Re: Good books
« Reply #102 on: May 13, 2017, 12:26:26 pm »
I remember reading Fahrenheit 451 as a kid and enjoyed it (in a scary "I think this really could happen" kind of way). The movie isn't bad, either.
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Re: Good books
« Reply #103 on: May 13, 2017, 02:17:31 pm »
I remember reading Fahrenheit 451 as a kid and enjoyed it (in a scary "I think this really could happen" kind of way). The movie isn't bad, either.
I remember wondering if I could memorize an entire book, and then wondering which one? (I have been a bibliophile ever since).
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Re: Good books
« Reply #104 on: May 25, 2017, 12:07:24 pm »
I stopped by the library to return "All the Light We Cannot See" and noticed a box full of books they were giving away. I picked out "Tin Flute" by Gabrielle Roy (a novel set in Montreal around the beginning of Canada's entry into WWII) and "Into Thin Air," by Jon Krakauer, about the 1996 Mount Everest disaster. Both very good, very different, but well worth the expenditure!
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Re: Good books
« Reply #105 on: May 25, 2017, 01:23:13 pm »
I stopped by the library to return "All the Light We Cannot See" and noticed a box full of books they were giving away. I picked out "Tin Flute" by Gabrielle Roy (a novel set in Montreal around the beginning of Canada's entry into WWII) and "Into Thin Air," by Jon Krakauer, about the 1996 Mount Everest disaster. Both very good, very different, but well worth the expenditure!
Our library remainders out books that for whatever reason they get rid of 25 cents to a dollar, and some magnificent books on occasion. I have been known to check out yard/rummage sales and thrift shops, too. Now, I need to build some serious bookcases...
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C S Lewis

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Re: Good books
« Reply #106 on: June 27, 2017, 10:20:38 am »
My mom and I just started reading"Behold the Dreamers" by Imbolo Mbue for her reading club she just joined.

So far it's pretty good.
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Re: Good books
« Reply #107 on: September 06, 2017, 04:13:21 pm »
BUMP

Hey, has anyone read anything good recently?

I'm so bored.

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Re: Good books
« Reply #108 on: September 06, 2017, 04:47:25 pm »
I just finished Flash Boys by Michael Lewis.  It's a description of how Wall Street screws pretty much everyone, how it was detected, why the SEC protects THEM, and what happened when someone tried to fight back.  Good book, highly recommend for anyone into tech or econ/finance.

Before that was Panic by the same author, which was a collection of essays about the financial panics since 1987.  Also good, if you're into that sort of thing.
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Re: Good books
« Reply #109 on: September 06, 2017, 04:53:37 pm »
Freya - I think you would enjoy this one: The Oddfits, by Tiffany Tsao. 

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Re: Good books
« Reply #110 on: September 06, 2017, 05:48:14 pm »
Currently I'm reading the English translation of a Japanese manga, Your Lie in April (Japanese title, Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso.) It's a very moving but very sad story; I decided to read the manga after seeing the 22-episode anime series made from the manga on Netflix (it's available there in both Japanese with English subtitles, and dubbed into English). Fair warning, keep the Kleenex handy, and/or have something fun or silly to watch if you need a break from it.
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Re: Good books
« Reply #111 on: September 06, 2017, 06:03:16 pm »
BUMP

Hey, has anyone read anything good recently?

I'm so bored.

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Re: Good books
« Reply #112 on: September 06, 2017, 10:19:20 pm »
BUMP

Hey, has anyone read anything good recently?

I'm so bored.

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My most recently read books:

   

   

And, next on my reading list, due to arrive tomorrow:



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Re: Good books
« Reply #113 on: September 06, 2017, 10:32:14 pm »
You might think I'm joking but Nope.

I'm reading this.



Part of the Christian Social History series of textbooks used in the Catholic schools. This is 4th Grade Text Book from 1955.   

BTW....4th grade reading level then is like HS today.

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Re: Good books
« Reply #114 on: September 06, 2017, 10:48:54 pm »
Last read: Dog Company Six by Edwin Howard Stevens,
Currently reading: Citizen Soldier by Stephen Ambrose
Next up: Fourteen Months in American Bastiles by F. K. Howard (Memoir by Francis Scott Key's grandson, imprisoned in Ft. McHenry, et. al., during the War of Northern Aggression)
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C S Lewis

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Re: Good books
« Reply #115 on: September 06, 2017, 11:32:08 pm »
Last "read" (on Audible):



Current book:



I'm in one of those "I just need something light and ridiculous" phases.


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Re: Good books
« Reply #116 on: September 06, 2017, 11:35:59 pm »
You might think I'm joking but Nope.

I'm reading this.



Part of the Christian Social History series of textbooks used in the Catholic schools. This is 4th Grade Text Book from 1955.   

BTW....4th grade reading level then is like HS today.

I recall having been assigned that exact textbook in my formative years.
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Re: Good books
« Reply #117 on: September 06, 2017, 11:41:33 pm »
I recall having been assigned that exact textbook in my formative years.

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Re: Good books
« Reply #118 on: September 06, 2017, 11:50:48 pm »
Thanks! I'm going to the library tomorrow for books.

Hurray!

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Re: Good books
« Reply #119 on: September 07, 2017, 12:02:26 am »
You might think I'm joking but Nope.

I'm reading this.



Part of the Christian Social History series of textbooks used in the Catholic schools. This is 4th Grade Text Book from 1955.   

BTW....4th grade reading level then is like HS today.

Where did you get them from?  I'd like to add them to my list for homeschooling.

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Re: Good books
« Reply #120 on: September 07, 2017, 12:15:48 am »
Where did you get them from?  I'd like to add them to my list for homeschooling.

It was my 4th grade Text book.   I think it was being updated the following year so Mom bought it for a Dime.

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Re: Good books
« Reply #121 on: September 07, 2017, 12:21:00 am »
It was my 4th grade Text book.   I think it was being updated the following year so Mom bought it for a Dime.

Oh, I took it that you had bought it recently.

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« Reply #122 on: September 07, 2017, 12:27:09 am »
How God must weep at humans' folly! Stand fast! God knows what he is doing!
Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C S Lewis


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Re: Good books
« Reply #124 on: September 07, 2017, 12:35:50 am »