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Post by lamudbug on Jun 8, 2013 22:31:00 GMT -5
Only read two books today.... I just re read books by Tom Clancy and Frank Herbert. Two of my favorite authors. Only got a little over 3.5 thousand books here in my living room, and about to give them to goodwill as i leave here and return to civilization. So I re-read the best of them in preparation to departure. In over a thousand pages Tom Clancy never came near producing a great novel like Frank Herbert did in just 300 pages. DUNE is a great novel with magnificent attention to detail.
Clancy did predict (or inspire) events in his rightwing novels. An airplane flying into a building in ''Debt of Honor'' (1994) as one outstanding example.
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Post by coolplanet on Jun 8, 2013 23:16:29 GMT -5
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe.
Was Achebe's title inspired by the famous William Butler Yeats poem The Second Coming? "Things fall apart / the center can not hold..."
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Post by lamudbug on Jun 9, 2013 0:45:00 GMT -5
Cute only three wives and eight children not much for africa
And resented the changes brought to his country by europeans. Caring for and feeding the children, educating them....
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Post by coolplanet on Jun 9, 2013 2:27:32 GMT -5
Cute only three wives and eight children not much for africa And resented the changes brought to his country by europeans. Caring for and feeding the children, educating them.... And the cat that always landed on its feet.....
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Post by coolplanet on Jun 9, 2013 22:39:19 GMT -5
Two books today '' The Bridge at Andau'' by James Michener '' The AIDS Coverup'' by Gene Antonio and then... '' Watership Down''. I got to re-read that one slowly and treasure every page. Not mere facts like the others, but a true work of art. May even take it & hope my mom will read it. May I recommend The Man Who Planted Trees: Lost Groves, Champion Trees, and an Urgent Plan to Save the Planet by popular journalist Jim Robbins (2012). It's the best book I've read in years.
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Post by milieu on Jun 14, 2013 0:38:16 GMT -5
Just finished Winner-Take-All Politics by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson -- a real stomach turner but filled with good information.
Now reading The Age of American Unreason: Dumbing Down and The Future of Democracy by Susan Jacoby must say she lays everything out very neatly and with enough detail to squash any but socio-psychopathic Right Wingers (yeah, I know that's an redundancy.)
Jacoby's book is the best and best researched since Conservatives Without Conscience by John Dean
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Post by lamudbug on Jun 15, 2013 1:11:17 GMT -5
Thanks .For the recommends. Gonna read them....
today Re-read "A Time to Kill" and then saw the movie, this evening.... The movie was better than the book (rare that is)
Dr King's: Judge by the content of their character, not the color of their skin was never better expressed IMHO
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Post by lamudbug on Jun 28, 2013 3:35:46 GMT -5
From Shogun: "...even the most cunning and clever people would frequently see only what they wanted to see, and would rarely look beyond the thinnest of facades, or they would ignore reality , dismissing it as the facade...."
me: each book I read has at least one bit of wisdom....
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Post by samemudbug on Sept 14, 2014 7:46:27 GMT -5
Silvia Brown in several good books fails to understand why we do not see ghosts from the distant past.
They are still existing in the world they knew, eg: Roman soldiers seen marching near Bath England, were visible only from the waist up. They were marching on the road that existed 2000yrs ago; several feet below current ground level. Older ghosts are still there, but below our ground level.
Someone needs to study 7-9,000 year old ruins in Turkey, north america, and Europe, which have been excavated. To record the ghosts are still in the existence they knew during their lives and deaths.
Silvia Brown cites a ghost at a cliff dwelling from over a thousand years ago, but fails to realize the obvious, That cliff dwelling was not buried in the sands of time.
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