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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #45 on: May 15, 2011, 07:46:57 PM »
:rocker: One can not copyright history. Of course anyone with 1/2 a brain knows that!
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #46 on: May 24, 2011, 08:59:59 AM »
Anything by Robin Hobb.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #47 on: June 22, 2011, 02:18:38 PM »
Journey to the End of Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Side Effects by Woody Allen

How The Scots Invented the Modern World by Arthur Herman
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #48 on: July 11, 2011, 04:19:19 PM »
Read:
Having read When The Body Says No Exploring The Stress-Disease Connection- by Gabor Maté lead me to…
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close encounters with addiction- by Gabor Maté I highly recommend this and have posted as much at some lengthy detail in the a t pforum.

Other recent reading:    
Nomads of the Wind The Migration of the Monarch Butterfly and Other Wonders of the Butterfly World - by Ingo Arndt
More Butterfly fodder for the weightless lilt of being unburdened by the reality of humanity.
As per Frod’s recommendation, Charles Bukowski. I happened upon The Continual Condition in the remainders... doubting I have contracted it.

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Zeitoun- David Eggars

Will be moving on to V.S Ramachadron’s The Tell-Tale Brain: A neuroscientists quest for what makes us human.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #49 on: July 11, 2011, 04:45:43 PM »
En este hermosa día en México, que estoy leyendo los datos y estadísticas para mi tesis .... golpes.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #50 on: July 11, 2011, 04:52:54 PM »
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En este hermosa día en México, que estoy leyendo los datos y estadísticas para mi tesis .... golpes.
Statistics as summer vacation reading…Not at all sure if/how this colloquialism translates, but Chupa para usted.  :heartbreak:
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #51 on: July 12, 2011, 01:11:37 PM »
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Journey to the End of Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Side Effects by Woody Allen

I liked reading those little books by Woody Allen; I read that one, and one called "Horsefeathers."

I got turned on to Celine via reading Bukowsi; read "Journey to the End of the Night" years ago (Also, I had known that Jim Morrison wrote a song inspired by its title, if not its thematics.) Later on I found a copy of another good one by him called "Guignol's Band," which I still have...
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #52 on: July 12, 2011, 11:28:34 PM »
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Journey to the End of Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Side Effects by Woody Allen

I liked reading those little books by Woody Allen; I read that one, and one called "Horsefeathers."

I got turned on to Celine via reading Bukowsi; read "Journey to the End of the Night" years ago (Also, I had known that Jim Morrison wrote a song inspired by its title, if not its thematics.) Later on I found a copy of another good one by him called "Guignol's Band," which I still have...

Have you ever read Castle To Castle by Celine?  KInd of an erratic read, but interesting.  It's the true story of the author and a bunch of Nazis and Nazi sympathizers and collaborators retreating from the advancing Allied armies.  Celine actually did write some propaganda pamphlets for the Nazis during the Vichy France regime, and so earned a spot with the retreating Germans.  No one in the party really knew who he was or what exactly he was doing with them; they had a vague notion that somehow he had ties to Partei big shots, so he was reluctantly accepted as they retreated from "Castle To Castle".
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #53 on: July 14, 2011, 04:44:45 PM »
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Journey to the End of Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Side Effects by Woody Allen

I liked reading those little books by Woody Allen; I read that one, and one called "Horsefeathers."

I got turned on to Celine via reading Bukowsi; read "Journey to the End of the Night" years ago (Also, I had known that Jim Morrison wrote a song inspired by its title, if not its thematics.) Later on I found a copy of another good one by him called "Guignol's Band," which I still have...

Have you ever read Castle To Castle by Celine?  KInd of an erratic read, but interesting.  It's the true story of the author and a bunch of Nazis and Nazi sympathizers and collaborators retreating from the advancing Allied armies.  Celine actually did write some propaganda pamphlets for the Nazis during the Vichy France regime, and so earned a spot with the retreating Germans.  No one in the party really knew who he was or what exactly he was doing with them; they had a vague notion that somehow he had ties to Partei big shots, so he was reluctantly accepted as they retreated from "Castle To Castle".

No, I haven't read that one, and had not heard of it until now, thanks!
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #54 on: July 25, 2011, 02:20:31 AM »
I am reading "Willow" by  Julia Hoban. nice book to read. I recommend you
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #55 on: August 04, 2011, 10:50:14 PM »
The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling (1-4)

Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon

The Dancing Wu Li Masters by Gary Zukov

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #56 on: February 09, 2012, 01:34:21 AM »
The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson is my favorite book and lastly I have read it.
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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #57 on: February 09, 2012, 11:34:56 PM »
Hiroshima, by John Hersey (©1946)


    On right: Hiroshima in ruins, October 1945, two months after the atomic bomb exploded[/list][/list]

    Of possible interest:

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    Re: What are you reading?
    « Reply #58 on: March 26, 2015, 08:45:11 PM »
    The Pirate Hunter

    Real life story of Captain Kidd, turns out he wasn't quite a pirate.