01-30-2014, 10:52 PM
01-31-2014, 09:02 AM
Quote:Killing Jesus and Great by Choice at the momentI plan on reading Killing Jesus as well as the other "Killing" books by O'Reilly and the co-author he worked with. I have a line of books I want to read at the moment.
I set a goal to read 20 by years end. I am on 2 right now....gotta pick it up. Summer will make it easier for me to make up lost time!
01-31-2014, 04:19 PM
Quote:I plan on reading Killing Jesus as well as the other "Killing" books by O'Reilly and the co-author he worked with. I have a line of books I want to read at the moment.
I set a goal to read 20 by years end. I am on 2 right now....gotta pick it up. Summer will make it easier for me to make up lost time!
I went for twenty in one year a couple years ago, but I felt like I was cheating because I was reading all books under three hundred pages. So, then I read "Shogun" and "East of Eden," and so I only made it to sixteen I believe. Good luck on twenty.
01-31-2014, 04:44 PM
Quote:I went for twenty in one year a couple years ago, but I felt like I was cheating because I was reading all books under three hundred pages. So, then I read "Shogun" and "East of Eden," and so I only made it to sixteen I believe. Good luck on twenty.I'd be ok counting 250 + .
01-31-2014, 05:08 PM
Quote:Quick question too. I am into fantasy/medieval like based novels. Like Game Of Thrones, and your classic Ivanhoe tales and King Arthur tales. When I was in elementary school, I picked up some random novels that were probably 900 pages long, and I want to swear up and down it was by Tolkien but it wasn't LotR. Does anybody know other books he wrote that were like that? Minus hobbits?
Probably dragonlance or the wheel of time series
01-31-2014, 09:50 PM
Quote:Killing Jesus and Great by Choice at the moment
I plan on reading Killing Jesus - so, please don't tell me how it ends!
01-31-2014, 10:40 PM
Quote:I went for twenty in one year a couple years ago, but I felt like I was cheating because I was reading all books under three hundred pages. So, then I read "Shogun" and "East of Eden," and so I only made it to sixteen I believe. Good luck on twenty.
It's been many years since I read East of Eden. I typically don't reread books but I make exceptions for my all time favorite author, John Steinbeck. I revisited Of Mice and Men a few years ago and enjoyed it as much as the first time.
01-31-2014, 11:16 PM
I'm halfway through "one fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish"
01-31-2014, 11:46 PM
Quote:It's been many years since I read East of Eden. I typically don't reread books but I make exceptions for my all time favorite author, John Steinbeck. I revisited Of Mice and Men a few years ago and enjoyed it as much as the first time.
My 11th grade English teacher gave our class what I thought was a horrible assignment over the Christmas holiday, which was to read The Grapes of Wrath.
It literally changed my life. If I were to meet Mrs. Ashcraft now, I'd give her the biggest hug possible.
02-01-2014, 12:04 AM
Quote:My 11th grade English teacher gave our class what I thought was a horrible assignment over the Christmas holiday, which was to read The Grapes of Wrath.
It literally changed my life. If I were to meet Mrs. Ashcraft now, I'd give her the biggest hug possible.
The first time reading The Grapes of Wrath I can remember being so hungry that I would find a good stopping point in order to eat. My son brought me a first edition he found in a bookstore in Scotland. I wish I would have brought it on this trip with me.
I finished Blood Meridian, btw. What a story. At first I didn't care for the ending, but it grew on me as I thought through the different interpretations. Cormac McCarthy has a way of unsettling the soul.
02-01-2014, 12:24 AM
Quote:The first time reading The Grapes of Wrath I can remember being so hungry that I would find a good stopping point in order to eat. My son brought me a first edition he found in a bookstore in Scotland. I wish I would have brought it on this trip with me.
I finished Blood Meridian, btw. What a story. At first I didn't care for the ending, but it grew on me as I thought through the different interpretations. Cormac McCarthy has a way of unsettling the soul.
Yeah, just when you think the kid was going to have a happy ending to his story, then...
If you like a great creepy story, try McCarthy's Child of God.
My favorite scene in the wonderful film adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2JR3FmvVAw
02-01-2014, 12:32 AM
I'm purely convinced that no other actor than Henry Fonda could have played that part.
This passage in the book made me laugh:
The man said stumblingly, "Well, Jesus, ya see somebody edge away from ya, an' it gets into ya."
"Cover it up then, [BAD WORD REMOVED] it. Ya stickin' it out like a cow's [BAD WORD REMOVED]. Ya like to feel sorry for yaself. There ain't nothin' the matter with ya. Buy yaself some white pants. Ya gettin' drunk and cryin' in ya bed, I bet."
...
The one-eyed man said softly, "Think - somebody'd like - me?"
"Why, sure," said Tom. "Tell 'em ya dong's growed sence you los' your eye.”
This passage in the book made me laugh:
The man said stumblingly, "Well, Jesus, ya see somebody edge away from ya, an' it gets into ya."
"Cover it up then, [BAD WORD REMOVED] it. Ya stickin' it out like a cow's [BAD WORD REMOVED]. Ya like to feel sorry for yaself. There ain't nothin' the matter with ya. Buy yaself some white pants. Ya gettin' drunk and cryin' in ya bed, I bet."
...
The one-eyed man said softly, "Think - somebody'd like - me?"
"Why, sure," said Tom. "Tell 'em ya dong's growed sence you los' your eye.”
02-01-2014, 12:34 AM
None of y'all are reading Playboy for the articles??? :whistling:
02-01-2014, 12:50 AM
Quote:None of y'all are reading Playboy for the articles??? :whistling:
Eventually, yes.
02-01-2014, 01:04 AM
Quote:None of y'all are reading Playboy for the articles??? :whistling:
Articles? What articles?
02-01-2014, 06:50 AM
Quote:It's been many years since I read East of Eden. I typically don't reread books but I make exceptions for my all time favorite author, John Steinbeck. I revisited Of Mice and Men a few years ago and enjoyed it as much as the first time.Great book
02-01-2014, 10:50 AM
On my Kindle at the moment:
The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as Social Policy - Thomas Sowell
Margin - Richard Swenson
Woodrow Wilson: A Biography - John Milton Cooper, Jr.
I just finished a terrific series of books written by Stant Litore based on Bible stories with Zombies. Kind of trashy genre, but the idea of the Old Testament Law being a bulwark against the undead is interesting. The author writes well and his historical accuracy is very good. I just finished No Lasting Burial, a take on the story of Jesus meeting some of his disciples in Capernaum, a small village besieged by their own contributions to the undead plague. Some very moving passages about how Jesus reacted to the outcasts of society and offers love and peace for those who've never known it.
The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as Social Policy - Thomas Sowell
Margin - Richard Swenson
Woodrow Wilson: A Biography - John Milton Cooper, Jr.
I just finished a terrific series of books written by Stant Litore based on Bible stories with Zombies. Kind of trashy genre, but the idea of the Old Testament Law being a bulwark against the undead is interesting. The author writes well and his historical accuracy is very good. I just finished No Lasting Burial, a take on the story of Jesus meeting some of his disciples in Capernaum, a small village besieged by their own contributions to the undead plague. Some very moving passages about how Jesus reacted to the outcasts of society and offers love and peace for those who've never known it.