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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #150 on: January 13, 2021, 03:56:15 pm »
Well, I just returned the book I was reading "The Water Dancer" to the library.  I read half of it.  I gave up.  It was historical fiction which I love. The character was a slave born to a rich slaveowner, the plot was good, it kept my interest and then a couple of times, the story went off topic to where the main character (slave) had some kind of powers to see events of the past and future. It was hard to discern at time whether these visions were part of the current plot or just some vision that really didn't tie into the story. 

I am  now beginning to read "Ship of Brides" by Jojo Moyes.  This will be my second book by this author.

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« Reply #151 on: January 13, 2021, 05:02:34 pm »
After reading four Bill O'Reilly books in quick succession, I'm in a bit of a lull (also a little burned out on history). I'm not sure whether the local library is open ('rona, dontchaknow) but if not, I can still go to the website and request a book, which they will deliver at the curb.
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« Reply #152 on: January 14, 2021, 05:38:40 am »
All the talk upthread... in the extended power outtage we just went through, I read half of Lando by Louis L'Amour - Fittingly by the light from lanterns and headlamps.

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« Reply #153 on: January 15, 2021, 03:35:07 am »
I just got my first book by Louis L'Amour, which is actually four novels in one.  Started Hondo.  I like to read chronologically.

As I read the book, not really remembering the plot, but knowing John Wayne played the role of Hondo in the movie, it appears Wayne was perfect for the role.  I can see John Wayne with every move he makes in the book.  It's as if the book was written just for John Wayne to star in the movie.  Interesting.

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« Reply #154 on: January 15, 2021, 01:26:03 pm »
I just read "Wildfire (Kelly Turnbull Book 3)" by Kurt Schlichter. Fun book.

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« Reply #155 on: January 15, 2021, 01:59:00 pm »
I just read "Wildfire (Kelly Turnbull Book 3)" by Kurt Schlichter. Fun book.
Kurt is one of my favorites on Twitter.
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« Reply #156 on: January 15, 2021, 03:06:33 pm »
Kurt is one of my favorites on Twitter.

Same here, although I dumped my Twitter account. I hope to be able to read his posts on Parler if they are able to recover.

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« Reply #157 on: January 15, 2021, 06:49:28 pm »
Book six of will Wight's Cradle series. Gonna try for that 100 books this year. He is a change of pace for me. 8 books in this series. I've been reading and staying away from the MSM.
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« Reply #158 on: January 15, 2021, 08:14:33 pm »
Book six of will Wight's Cradle series. Gonna try for that 100 books this year. He is a change of pace for me. 8 books in this series. I've been reading and staying away from the MSM.

I hadn't heard of Will Wight before, but the series sounds interesting.

I'm doing the same w.r.t. MSM, and also social media (other than here). It's actually quite nice.

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« Reply #159 on: January 15, 2021, 08:41:25 pm »
I've been reading and staying away from the MSM.

Always a good decision.
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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #160 on: January 15, 2021, 08:44:15 pm »
After reading four Bill O'Reilly books in quick succession, I'm in a bit of a lull (also a little burned out on history). I'm not sure whether the local library is open ('rona, dontchaknow) but if not, I can still go to the website and request a book, which they will deliver at the curb.

Well, obviously you liked them all?  I haven't read any of his books. 

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« Reply #161 on: January 15, 2021, 09:27:45 pm »
Well, obviously you liked them all?  I haven't read any of his books.

I haven't, either. Don't really care to. I read books for entertainment.
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« Reply #162 on: January 15, 2021, 09:29:43 pm »
Book six of will Wight's Cradle series. Gonna try for that 100 books this year. He is a change of pace for me. 8 books in this series. I've been reading and staying away from the MSM.

Good plan!

I'm thinking (or maybe just hoping?) the 9th book might be out by late summer or thereabouts.  Wight has been a very prolific writer.  And as a bonus, he generally makes the Kindle versions of his previous books in the series available for free when he does a new release.
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« Reply #163 on: January 15, 2021, 09:31:53 pm »
Good plan!

I'm thinking (or maybe just hoping?) the 9th book might be out by late summer or thereabouts.  Wight has been a very prolific writer.  And as a bonus, he generally makes the Kindle versions of his previous books in the series available for free when he does a new release.

Thanks for the tip.

I'm going to try more of his books after this series.
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« Reply #164 on: January 15, 2021, 09:38:15 pm »
Thanks for the tip.

I'm going to try more of his books after this series.

I'd love to hear your impressions once you do. I haven't read anything of his other than Cradle yet, but I have the Elder Empire books in my queue.
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« Reply #165 on: January 16, 2021, 11:18:40 am »


Just picked this up.  Not sure when I will get to it, tho.
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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #166 on: January 16, 2021, 12:41:53 pm »
I’ve been learning French on the Duolingo app for a little over a year. It’s been kinda slow and steady, the old gray cells aren’t what they use to be.

So I’m now trying to read some beginning children’s books in francais. Tres difficle
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« Reply #167 on: January 16, 2021, 01:29:41 pm »
I’ve been learning French on the Duolingo app for a little over a year. It’s been kinda slow and steady, the old gray cells aren’t what they use to be.

So I’m now trying to read some beginning children’s books in francais. Tres difficle

Way to go, never stop learning.
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« Reply #168 on: January 16, 2021, 01:40:08 pm »
Way to go, never stop learning.

It’s a very good thing to do during quarantine. Keeps you busy. And when I get a lesson right, a cute animated owl shows up.

To be honest,  I was hoping to go to Paris this year, but now, before 2030 will be nice. COVID should be under control by then, I hope.
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« Reply #169 on: January 16, 2021, 03:27:43 pm »
I always liked Bill O'Reilly, but his books are suspect.  He pushes the nonsense that Oswald was the only assassin.  Even the government with a second commission in I believe 1978 admitted there were at least two shooters.

I have a friend that is a professional writer.  Her and her husband met attending the semi-annual conference of the Kennedy assassination.  She has literally every book in print on the assassination.

BTW, to plug her book, Forward to Camelot, by Susan Sloate, a time travel fantasy tied to the Kennedy assassination.  I honestly could not put the book down.  LITERALLY!  I loved her book.  I told her she should rewrite the first 30 pages or so, but once beyond that, I promise you, this is a real page turner.
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« Reply #170 on: January 16, 2021, 04:56:56 pm »
Well, obviously you liked them all?  I haven't read any of his books.
Like I said somewhere, they're a good introduction to history. They probably shouldn't be considered the final authority. I do appreciate the way they introduce the characters, though. It was nice to learn more about Gen. Patton, for example, because my great-great-grandfather served under Patton's grandfather in the Civil War.
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« Reply #171 on: January 17, 2021, 08:53:10 am »


Just picked this up.  Not sure when I will get to it, tho.

The premise sounds like a poem.

Do not go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #172 on: January 21, 2021, 08:30:28 pm »
Finished Hondo by Louis L'Amour.  Simple story, interesting, and a fast read.  On to the next book.

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« Reply #173 on: January 21, 2021, 08:36:31 pm »
Finished Hondo by Louis L'Amour.  Simple story, interesting, and a fast read.  On to the next book.

@jafo2010

His stories are about people. They don't need to be complex.

I wish I could still read. Thanks to chemo brain,I am now stuck with watching videos and movies on my ROKU. I sometimes try to read,but by the time I get to the second page I have already forgotten what happened on the first page.

On a positive note,I am saving a lot of money on books.
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« Reply #174 on: January 21, 2021, 08:43:13 pm »
I took time off from Rama to bone up on Robert's Rules of Order.  :shrug:
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« Reply #175 on: January 21, 2021, 08:57:05 pm »
Finished Hondo by Louis L'Amour.  Simple story, interesting, and a fast read.  On to the next book.

Expect more of the same. I can get through a L'amour tale in four hours if I am left alone... In our recent power outage I got half way through Lando in two hours time... before the headlamp gave up the ghost. New headlamp nearly on the way btw...

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« Reply #176 on: January 22, 2021, 11:45:55 am »
Finished up Clive Cussler's "The Titanic secret", ordered the first three in the Series and am in the Middle of Cussler's Arctic Drift.
I want to finish up all of his Dirk Pitt stuff before summer. Should be easy enough, they're not "deep" reads. I was nice to see that his car did not get destroyed in a shoot out car chase this time (So far).
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« Reply #177 on: January 22, 2021, 11:51:07 am »
Finished up Clive Cussler's "The Titanic secret", ordered the first three in the Series and am in the Middle of Cussler's Arctic Drift.
I want to finish up all of his Dirk Pitt stuff before summer. Should be easy enough, they're not "deep" reads. I was nice to see that his car did not get destroyed in a shoot out car chase this time (So far).

The thing I have against Cussler is the necessary suspension of disbelief... The first books were outlandish, but a rollicking story made it work... As I went on, the impossibility of the stories began to rub me wrong.  :shrug:

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« Reply #178 on: January 22, 2021, 12:10:55 pm »
I've moved on to the latest Kurt Schlichter book in the Kelly Turnbull series: "Crises". Loving these books. They're a real pick-me-up in current times because they are merciless in making fun of the leftist woke fools.

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« Reply #179 on: January 22, 2021, 07:30:37 pm »
The thing I have against Cussler is the necessary suspension of disbelief... The first books were outlandish, but a rollicking story made it work... As I went on, the impossibility of the stories began to rub me wrong.  :shrug:

I think they were good. I think he had someone else writing a lot of later stuff. And I agree with you on the superhero aspect.

On book eight of the Cradle. Need to finish it up and one more for the month. Nine books a month is my goal.
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« Reply #180 on: January 23, 2021, 07:25:53 am »
I think they were good. I think he had someone else writing a lot of later stuff. And I agree with you on the superhero aspect.

On book eight of the Cradle. Need to finish it up and one more for the month. Nine books a month is my goal.

The only book I’ve ever read with “Cradle” in the title was “Cat’s Cradle”, by Vonnegut. I loved it but I realize that Kurt Vonnegut may not be for everyone. Most of my classmates in an English course when we were reading “Slaughterhouse Five” really disliked it.
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« Reply #181 on: January 23, 2021, 08:15:49 am »
The only book I’ve ever read with “Cradle” in the title was “Cat’s Cradle”, by Vonnegut. I loved it but I realize that Kurt Vonnegut may not be for everyone. Most of my classmates in an English course when we were reading “Slaughterhouse Five” really disliked it.

Your classmates would have liked Breakfast of Champions better...
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« Reply #182 on: January 23, 2021, 08:30:43 am »
Your classmates would have liked Breakfast of Champions better...

Dwayne Hoover the Pontiac salesman, and Kilgore Trout! Hurray!

I do agree @Cyber Liberty . Or Cats Cradle, The Sirens of Titian. Even that book he wrote in 79 about Sacco and Vanzetti was good. “Jailbird”

I used that one for part of a paper for an AP US History class in HS and got an A+ on it.
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« Reply #183 on: January 23, 2021, 02:26:08 pm »
The only book I’ve ever read with “Cradle” in the title was “Cat’s Cradle”, by Vonnegut. I loved it but I realize that Kurt Vonnegut may not be for everyone. Most of my classmates in an English course when we were reading “Slaughterhouse Five” really disliked it.
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« Reply #184 on: January 24, 2021, 09:05:02 pm »
Vonnegut, read everything he wrote up to Breakfast of Champions.  I thought it was mediocre.  However, back in my university days, I thought Cat's Cradle was one of my favorite stories.  I also loved Slaughterhouse Five.  It was a difficult book to follow, and I can see why folks might not like it or find it difficult to follow.

Some 30 years after I read Cat's Cradle, I was sick in bed and decided to read it again.  I hate to say this, but I could not remotely understand why I liked the book.  I was not impressed.

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« Reply #185 on: January 24, 2021, 09:09:40 pm »
Just finished another L'Amour book, Showdown at Yellow Butte.  Again, great characters, easy read.

Bought a lot of 65 of his books today.  Got them for a reasonable rate, about $2 each for the leatherette books.

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« Reply #186 on: January 24, 2021, 09:22:28 pm »
   Got this today.  I wanted to start it tonight but decided to get drunk and Internet instead.  It's another story about my family's history in founding San Antonio, 1731.

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« Reply #187 on: January 24, 2021, 09:26:10 pm »
Vonnegut, read everything he wrote up to Breakfast of Champions.  I thought it was mediocre.  However, back in my university days, I thought Cat's Cradle was one of my favorite stories.  I also loved Slaughterhouse Five.  It was a difficult book to follow, and I can see why folks might not like it or find it difficult to follow.

Some 30 years after I read Cat's Cradle, I was sick in bed and decided to read it again.  I hate to say this, but I could not remotely understand why I liked the book.  I was not impressed.

I understand @jafo2010

When I was in Junior High, 8 discovered Sylvia Plath. I thought she was the best female poet ever.

When I was in my mid to late 20s, about 27, 28, I thought she was a selfish woman, who not only almost took her two children with her suicide, but the person who lived in the flat below.
And this was over Ted Hughes, who may be a good poet in his own right, but how in the heck did he have two wives suicide?

Now, if I want to read a good female poet, I’ll read Emily Dickinson or Elizabeth Browning
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« Reply #188 on: January 28, 2021, 09:12:13 pm »
Vonnegut, read everything he wrote up to Breakfast of Champions.  I thought it was mediocre.  However, back in my university days, I thought Cat's Cradle was one of my favorite stories.  I also loved Slaughterhouse Five.  It was a difficult book to follow, and I can see why folks might not like it or find it difficult to follow.

Some 30 years after I read Cat's Cradle, I was sick in bed and decided to read it again.  I hate to say this, but I could not remotely understand why I liked the book.  I was not impressed.
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« Reply #189 on: February 05, 2021, 01:08:05 pm »
Just cranked through four L'Amour books.  Easy reads.  He is very descriptive with his writing.

Got 69 of his books, and negotiating for another 52 more books which will give me a near complete set of his books.  I hope to read them all this year, in addition to my normal reading.

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« Reply #190 on: February 05, 2021, 02:14:37 pm »
I've recently started Stephen W. Sears' "Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam." Very detailed and gives good background info leading up to the battle itself. I find myself having to stop and reread entire paragraphs just to keep everything straight. But it's very good, at least so far, up to page 74.  :laugh:

It occurs to me that I sound like the young man in the Progressive Insurance commercials, where the Parenta-Life coach Dr. Rick asks, "Who else reads books about submarines?" and he replies, "My dad?"

Yes, this baby boomer female actually reads books about Civil War battles.  :silly:
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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #191 on: February 05, 2021, 03:47:15 pm »
Just cranked through four L'Amour books.  Easy reads.  He is very descriptive with his writing.

Got 69 of his books, and negotiating for another 52 more books which will give me a near complete set of his books.  I hope to read them all this year, in addition to my normal reading.

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So I guess I'm not going out on a limb when I say you are now a Louis L'Amour fan?
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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #192 on: February 06, 2021, 01:50:00 pm »
Yes, I am enjoying his books.  One thing absolutely true about his work, it is all American.  When you read his books, and I have only read a few, it is clearly evident we have much to be thankful for, and much to lose.  Life back in the 19th century was challenging and harsh, to say the least.

I wake up daily, no wood to cut for warmth, I can prepare a meal in a few minutes that will feed us for five days, and stored in a refrigerator to keep it fresh.  Everything is grown for me, and all I need do is buy it and eat it.  And so far, life has been safe for me and my family.  No one threatening us with our life, no wild animals looking to make me dinner, no diseases to contend with, etc. 

Again, life is good.  And the people that settled this country had courage and great determination.  We have lost that as a nation I fear.

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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #193 on: February 12, 2021, 05:07:09 pm »
   Got this today.  I wanted to start it tonight but decided to get drunk and Internet instead.  It's another story about my family's history in founding San Antonio, 1731.



I had no idea of your family's history.  I'll have to give it a read.

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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #194 on: February 12, 2021, 05:13:26 pm »
I am reading "Neighbors" one of Danielle Steel's newest books.  It's a light, easy read and I'm enjoying it.  Read almost half of the book last night.

I looked up the L'Amour books, I didn't realize that they were fictional history; my fave.  Anyone have a favorite??

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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #195 on: February 12, 2021, 05:57:22 pm »
I am reading "Neighbors" one of Danielle Steel's newest books.  It's a light, easy read and I'm enjoying it.  Read almost half of the book last night.

I looked up the L'Amour books, I didn't realize that they were fictional history; my fave.  Anyone have a favorite??

ANY of the Sackett books.

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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #196 on: February 12, 2021, 06:04:14 pm »
I wake up daily, no wood to cut for warmth, I can prepare a meal in a few minutes that will feed us for five days, and stored in a refrigerator to keep it fresh.  Everything is grown for me, and all I need do is buy it and eat it.  And so far, life has been safe for me and my family.  No one threatening us with our life, no wild animals looking to make me dinner, no diseases to contend with, etc. 


Well, really it ain't all that hard otherwise. I have lived by lantern light and heated with wood, having to fetch water and use an outhouse ... You might be surprised how many there are that still do. Same goes for building things with hand tools and blacksmithing. Just takes longer is all. The work is actually better craft.

The big one is refrigeration - And by that I mean freezers. Folks had regular refrigeration sinking stuff down in the well. After that, laundry... The rest ain't bad at all.


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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #197 on: February 12, 2021, 06:41:01 pm »
I had no idea of your family's history.  I'll have to give it a read.

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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #198 on: February 12, 2021, 06:44:31 pm »
My Great, Great, Great Grandfather was PT Barnum. We don't talk about it much....

The time to talk is long over,  imo.

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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #199 on: February 17, 2021, 06:00:29 pm »
Just starting "Kolyma Tales" by Varlam Shalamov, semi-autobiographical short stories about life in the Soviet labor camps of far north-eastern Siberia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolyma_Tales

I had seen these mentioned while reading The Gulag Archipelago, so I hunted it up and downloaded it...