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  1. JP5

    JP5 Former Moderator Past Donor

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    I am currently reading, "The Storyteller" by Jodi Picoult. It's about the Holocaust and features a current-day young woman who has met an old 90+ year old man who asks her to kill him. (She is Jewish). He is a former SS officer and recounts his horrible actions to her. It's an excellent book and very well-written.

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    JP5, May 24, 2013
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  2. darckriver

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    Philip K. Dick - "A Scanner Darkly"

    Phillip K. Dick - fantastic writer!
     
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  3. JP5

    JP5 Former Moderator Past Donor

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    I love all the suggestions and recommendations for good books here in this thread. I have a monthly Book Club and we are always looking for something really good.
    Thanks all!!
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    JP5, May 25, 2013
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    Why does English have almost no words from the Britons? Were they totally driven out into Wales, etc? How many were exterminated? Some of them must have been enslaved by the Saxons, but no trace of the British (Celtic) language was adopted by the Saxons. Americans even have some words from the native Indians, but the British have no British.
     
    PrometheusBound, Jun 19, 2013
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  5. PrometheusBound

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    I've just started reading Leviathan, written in 1651. What infuriates me is that there is no reason at all the academented editors couldn't have modernized the spelling. They always modernize Shakespeare's spelling and the King James Version of the Bible; why do these worthless sheltered escapists have so little communication skills that they would keep the typical anarchic and distracting spelling of the original in even a classic work such as this?

    This undeniable stupidity really upsets me because it proves that professors have no right to their jobs and yet they are so respected. People here are always referencing them as if quoting expert authorities, but the basic lack of sense of these frauds is displayed time and time again. Another example is the acadummy who wrote Newton's biography, not bothering to modernize the spelling of his letters to other geniuses. It is hard to read them without getting the irrational feeling that Newton was a moron, because he spells the same way a flunking 4th Grader would. By the way, people back then would spell the same word differently in the same sentence!

    All this proves is that the academic worms and snakes we have today deserve the same contempt that the Enlightenment showed for the medieval Scholastics.
     
    PrometheusBound, Jun 19, 2013
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    [video=youtube_share;-aan-1E5h4o]http://youtu.be/-aan-1E5h4o[/video]
     
    ThirdTerm, Jun 23, 2013
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  7. Ernie_McCracken

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    Yellow River, by I.P. Freely
     
    Ernie_McCracken, Jun 28, 2013
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    I'm re-reading Game of Thrones (1st book of "A Song of Ice and Fire" series).
     
    KSigMason, Jun 30, 2013
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    The Gathering Storm (Wheel of Time series)
     
    rahl, Jul 14, 2013
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    Plato and the Question of Beauty
     
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    I've recently started rereading "Lord Fouls Bane," the first book in the Thomas Covenant Series. I'll probably keep going through the first three books in the series.

    I've read this series many times and I always return to it. Will there ever be a movie!?!?!?!?
     
    Individual, Jul 15, 2013
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    The Price of Politics
    by Bob Woodward
     
    Thehumankind, Jul 15, 2013
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    Mostly documentary and memoirs about WWI WWII civil wars in Russia and US etc.
     
    SAUER, Jul 16, 2013
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    The History of Royal Arch Masonry, Vol 1 by Ray V. Denslow
     
    KSigMason, Jul 23, 2013
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    Prophet's Prey by Sam Brower, the man who took down FLDS polygamist cult leader and child rapist Warren Jeffs. He's not the best writer and he had help from Jon Krakauer, but the story is just amazing. Highly recommend.
     
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    Wow, that is a depressing choice. I read the series, but it was too dark for me to consider reading again.

    Right now I'm reading "The Neutronium Alchemist" by Peter F Hamilton and "The Paradox of Choice" by Barry Schwartz.
     
    hiimjered, Jul 23, 2013
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    Blood MerIdian or the Evening Redness in the Western Sky, by Cormac McCarthy.
     
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    "Gulf War Debriefing Book: An After Action Report "
    It was supposed to list every mil. unit involved, active, guard and reserve. The unit I was assigned to was not in there...

    It was published in 1999, and as interest in the conflict has waned considerably since that time, I didn't pay much for a used copy of it online. I'm building a patch collection to include every unit involved, and needed a comprehensive list....I had heard this was the definitive guide, but can it really be trusted? I had to ask myself that...the author has been non-responsive.
     
    Herkdriver, Jul 23, 2013
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    "The Constitution of Liberty", by Hayek
     
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    Re-reading Enders Game.
     
    TBryant, Aug 25, 2013
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    Fingerprints of the Gods, by Graham Hancock, again.
     
    Ernie_McCracken, Aug 27, 2013
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    I am on book three of the Game of Thrones series.

    Very interesting. Whilst not exactly high literature, the character interaction is amazing.

    Plus there are swords, zombies, dragons, and tons of sex, just like the TFM household on Saturday night.
     
    Think for myself, Aug 27, 2013
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    So do you play Renly or Loras?
     
    Ernie_McCracken, Aug 27, 2013
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    Tyrion.
     
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