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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #600 on: September 12, 2024, 09:01:55 pm »
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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #601 on: October 07, 2024, 09:53:59 pm »
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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #602 on: January 08, 2025, 10:46:23 am »
Our public library was closed from Christmas to New Year's Day, and I'd run out of novels to read, so I checked out the Jerry Jenkins' "underground zealot" three-book series (Soon, Silenced and Shadowed) from the church library. They take place in the mid- late-2040s, after a worldwide government has banned the practice of all religion in the name of peace. In the first book, the underground church has prayed for God to bring down judgment on Los Angeles, and when He does, it takes the form of instantaneous drought. Water glasses, swimming pools - immediately bone dry. All foliage dries out, and the entire region becomes a uninhabited desert.

The book certainly came to mind when I heard of the fires raging through Pacific Palisades and environs!  I couldn't help it.
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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #603 on: January 08, 2025, 11:07:28 am »
Quote from: mountaineer on January 08, 2025, 10:46:23 am
Our public library was closed from Christmas to New Year's Day, and I'd run out of novels to read, so I checked out the Jerry Jenkins' "underground zealot" three-book series (Soon, Silenced and Shadowed) from the church library. They take place in the mid- late-2040s, after a worldwide government has banned the practice of all religion in the name of peace. In the first book, the underground church has prayed for God to bring down judgment on Los Angeles, and when He does, it takes the form of instantaneous drought. Water glasses, swimming pools - immediately bone dry. All foliage dries out, and the entire region becomes a uninhabited desert.

The book certainly came to mind when I heard of the fires raging through Pacific Palisades and environs!  I couldn't help it.

I got the first book in this trilogy free on Audible. Tried to get into it but couldn't - I'll try it again @mountaineer
I did enjoy the "Left Behind" series and the three books in the prequel


Reading a very good book this month for book club. Ill let you all know if its good- just started it.
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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #604 on: January 08, 2025, 11:55:00 am »
These were the first Jenkins books I'd ever read, although I have heard of the Left Behind series. Maybe I'll check them out.
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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #605 on: January 08, 2025, 12:19:39 pm »

Humans Are Not From Earth: A Scientific Evaluation Of The Evidence
by Ellis Silver



We are allergic to our own sun. In fact it will kill us if exposed to it for too long.
We need artificial clothing or furs to survive outdoors.
We do not eat most natural foods without massive alteration and preparation. Humans cannot live without fire.
We build structures to live in to protect us from the natural environment of Earth.
Most people Hate nature and living in the natural world. In fact, most would die from having to live in it.

Bottom line is: if humans evolved on Earth naturally, then why would nature kill us if we tried to survive in it. One would think that getting back to nature would be a wonderful thing. It should be like going home. Instead it is deadly. It is actually a highly specialized and highly trained skill to be able to survive in nature. And yet we evolved in nature? Really?

The natural environment of the Earth is deadly to humans. How can that be true if we evolved in it? Maybe we came from somewhere else and were transplanted here in this hostile environment? Who knows?
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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #606 on: January 08, 2025, 07:03:06 pm »
I'd seen the great film "Ben Hur" a few times, but had never read the book.

I'd heard that it was a difficult book, mostly due to the 1880-ish somewhat "archaic" prose style that Lew Wallace used in his time.

Then I found that his great-great granddaughter "re-wrote" the book, revising the original text into a more modern style, and removing some of the overly-elaborite site descriptions in the original.

So I scrounged up the sorta-bowdlerized version.
Just finished it a few days ago and enjoyed it.

You want to search for:
"Ben-Hur A Tale of the Christ (Collectors Edition)"
(above can be found in epub format on z-lib)
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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #607 on: March 29, 2025, 09:48:14 am »
Just finished "All Quiet on the Western Front," by Erich Maria Remarque. Very sobering and thought-provoking. I'd seen the 1930 movie with Lew Ayers but hadn't read the book until now.  :crying:
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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #608 on: March 29, 2025, 05:27:21 pm »
Currently reading "Timeline", by Michael Crichton.
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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #609 on: March 29, 2025, 05:37:57 pm »
I just downloaded "Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard" by Tom Felton. Haven't started it yet, but I hear good things about it.
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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #610 on: April 09, 2025, 08:26:09 am »
Quote from: Polly Ticks on March 29, 2025, 05:37:57 pm
I just downloaded "Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard" by Tom Felton. Haven't started it yet, but I hear good things about it.

Came back to add that I really enjoyed this book. Very humorous, and quite introspective toward the end.
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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #611 on: April 09, 2025, 05:41:05 pm »
Finished yesterday:
"Timeline", by Michael Crichton.

Started today:
"The Bridge on the River Kwai", by Pierre Boulle.
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Re: What are you reading right now?
« Reply #612 on: April 12, 2025, 06:19:07 am »
Quote from: Fishrrman on April 09, 2025, 05:41:05 pm
Finished yesterday:
"Timeline", by Michael Crichton.

Started today:
"The Bridge on the River Kwai", by Pierre Boulle.
Loved Timeline.
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