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Post by Legend Lover on Mar 14, 2023 5:37:19 GMT -5
New thread for the rest of the year (hopefully). I wish I had more time to read!
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Post by toshtego on Mar 14, 2023 7:26:24 GMT -5
I wish you did, too. The best ways to manage stress I have found are through reading an enjoyable book or working Crossword puzzles.
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Post by exbenedict on Mar 16, 2023 23:19:13 GMT -5
White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America
A. Butler, 2021
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Post by don on Mar 17, 2023 7:39:46 GMT -5
“The Atrocity Archives” by Charles Strauss
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Post by exbenedict on Mar 20, 2023 21:18:48 GMT -5
Heck, Texas
Tex Gresham
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Post by exbenedict on Mar 26, 2023 10:39:30 GMT -5
The Complete Books of Charles Fort
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Post by toshtego on Mar 26, 2023 12:18:46 GMT -5
The Complete Books of Charles Fort Not familiar with this author. Perhaps you could describe his works? I am interested in what my comrades are reading so that I might learn something. |
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Post by exbenedict on Mar 26, 2023 17:22:28 GMT -5
The Complete Books of Charles Fort Not familiar with this author. Perhaps you could describe his works? I am interested in what my comrades are reading so that I might learn something.
Professional skeptical optimist.
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 27, 2023 10:49:07 GMT -5
I learned at age 19 that I don't want explanations for some unexplained phenomena. I would rather not think about it than to know something that I can't unknown.
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Post by sperrytops on Mar 27, 2023 12:05:33 GMT -5
Always intrigued by vast numbers of small animals falling from the sky.
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Post by Zach on Mar 28, 2023 18:33:30 GMT -5
After last finishing Notes From A Dead House, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, I've started The Death of Ivan Ilych And Other Stories, By Leo Tolstoy.
I've been making a huge dent into classic Russian literature, as those following along this here thread know. I've knocked out about half of Dostoevsky in a few months, with a few more novellas/short stories and a few more full novels to go. I also recently picked up a 1989 copy of Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons and intend to gradually pick up everything by Nikolai Gogol, Anton Checkov, and just a few others. I figure after these stories by Tolsoy, all I have left to read of Tolstoy is War and Peace and I've secured a copy of that, but that's going to be a serious tome. After these short stories I'm going to breeze through a few cyberpunk and sci-fi novels for a classic lit break.
Up next after this Tolstoy book, in a couple days I'll start Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson.
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Post by exbenedict on Apr 5, 2023 13:27:09 GMT -5
Hate Groups in America: A Record of Bigotry and Violence
B. Borith
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Post by jeffd on Apr 5, 2023 16:51:21 GMT -5
After last finishing Notes From A Dead House, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, I've started The Death of Ivan Ilych And Other Stories, By Leo Tolstoy.
I've been making a huge dent into classic Russian literature, as those following along this here thread know. I've knocked out about half of Dostoevsky in a few months, with a few more novellas/short stories and a few more full novels to go. I also recently picked up a 1989 copy of Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons and intend to gradually pick up everything by Nikolai Gogol, Anton Checkov, and just a few others. I figure after these stories by Tolsoy, all I have left to read of Tolstoy is War and Peace and I've secured a copy of that, but that's going to be a serious tome. After these short stories I'm going to breeze through a few cyberpunk and sci-fi novels for a classic lit break.
Up next after this Tolstoy book, in a couple days I'll start Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson.
Yikes! Good going! Don't make a stunt out of it though, savor the flavor. Smoke them like a pipe.  Gogol wrote a story "The Overcoat" which can make a grown man tear up and cry. One can easily imagine writing such a story about a smoking pipe. |
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Post by jeffd on Apr 5, 2023 16:57:02 GMT -5
From Tolstoy's War and Peace:
In the count's room, which was full of tobacco smoke, they talked of war that had been announced in a manifesto, and about the recruiting. None of them had yet seen the manifesto, but they all knew it had appeared. The count sat on the sofa between two guests who were smoking and talking. He neither smoked nor talked, but bending his head first to one side and then to the other watched the smokers with evident pleasure and listened to the conversation of his two neighbors, whom he egged on against each other.
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Post by Zach on Apr 5, 2023 20:53:45 GMT -5
After last finishing Notes From A Dead House, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, I've started The Death of Ivan Ilych And Other Stories, By Leo Tolstoy.
I've been making a huge dent into classic Russian literature, as those following along this here thread know. I've knocked out about half of Dostoevsky in a few months, with a few more novellas/short stories and a few more full novels to go. I also recently picked up a 1989 copy of Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons and intend to gradually pick up everything by Nikolai Gogol, Anton Checkov, and just a few others. I figure after these stories by Tolsoy, all I have left to read of Tolstoy is War and Peace and I've secured a copy of that, but that's going to be a serious tome. After these short stories I'm going to breeze through a few cyberpunk and sci-fi novels for a classic lit break.
Up next after this Tolstoy book, in a couple days I'll start Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson.
Yikes! Good going! Don't make a stunt out of it though, savor the flavor. Smoke them like a pipe. Gogol wrote a story "The Overcoat" which can make a grown man tear up and cry. One can easily imagine writing such a story about a smoking pipe. Thanks, Jeff! It's been a joy, thankfully. I've quite enjoyed Dostoevsky and been saving The Adolescent, The Idiot, Demons, and The Brother's Karamazov for last. I'll read quite a few other books before I get to the next of those four.
This week, I've just finished four of Tolstoy's shorter novellas; Family Happiness, The Death of Ivan Ilych, The Kreutzer Sonata, & Master and Man. I've previously read Anna Karenina and have yet to read War and Peace but it's piled up in the To Be Read pile.
I'm starting Worm: The First Digital World War by Mark Bowden. A book about "Conficker worm," the 2009 Windows computer worm.
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Post by Ronv69 on Apr 5, 2023 20:59:49 GMT -5
The mid 2000s were great fun to be the IT director of a payroll company. Didn't sleep well for a decade or 2.
Bastards.
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Post by toshtego on Apr 6, 2023 8:51:06 GMT -5
Always intrigued by vast numbers of small animals falling from the sky. Pharoh said much the same following the Plague of Frogs... |
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Post by exbenedict on Apr 7, 2023 15:18:58 GMT -5
Quarterly Journal of Finance
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Post by Plainsman on Apr 9, 2023 15:05:41 GMT -5
I like to keep several books open at a time, currently… LEGENDS OF THE SAMURAI, Hiroaki Sato; THE ANGLOSAXON CHRONICLE, Ed. R. Carruthers; THE DHARMA BUMS, Jack Kerouac; THE HONORABLE SCHOOLBOY, John LeCarré.
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Post by toshtego on Apr 9, 2023 15:44:28 GMT -5
I last read The Dharma Bums in the later 1960s. Might have to read it again.
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Post by Plainsman on Apr 9, 2023 17:11:25 GMT -5
I last read The Dharma Bums in the later 1960s. Might have to read it again. It’s a repeat for me, too. |
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Post by jeffd on Apr 10, 2023 21:03:16 GMT -5
John LeCarre is pretty amazing. But when life gets busy I have to go to short stories that I can finish before my next assignment. With LeCarre I find, if I put it down for too long, I have to re-read about a third of what I read last time. Grrrr.
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Post by Ronv69 on Apr 12, 2023 12:25:46 GMT -5
John LeCarre is pretty amazing. But when life gets busy I have to go to short stories that I can finish before my next assignment. With LeCarre I find, if I put it down for too long, I have to re-read about a third of what I read last time. Grrrr. I just got Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorn for the same reason. Stories I can finish in one or two sittings. |
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Post by toshtego on Apr 12, 2023 14:35:19 GMT -5
John LeCarre is pretty amazing. But when life gets busy I have to go to short stories that I can finish before my next assignment. With LeCarre I find, if I put it down for too long, I have to re-read about a third of what I read last time. Grrrr. I just got Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorn for the same reason. Stories I can finish in one or two sittings. Just finished Washington Irving's Sketch Book. Short stories and essays. He was an outstanding writer in my opinion. I have to look for my Hawthorne copy. I enjoyed him in the past. When living in Berkshire Massachusetts long ago, I used to sit upon the rock peak of Monument Mountain. Where Nathaniel and Melville used to sit and talk the hours away. Sadly, little rubbed off on me.... |
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Post by Ronv69 on Apr 12, 2023 21:01:38 GMT -5
I just got Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorn for the same reason. Stories I can finish in one or two sittings. Just finished Washington Irving's Sketch Book. Short stories and essays. He was an outstanding writer in my opinion. I have to look for my Hawthorne copy. I enjoyed him in the past. When living in Berkshire Massachusetts long ago, I used to sit upon the rock peak of Monument Mountain. Where Nathaniel and Melville used to sit and talk the hours away. Sadly, little rubbed off on me.... I got the Sketch Book for my son for Christmas. Every time he finishes a story, he comes and tells me all about it. I'll probably read it next year. |
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Post by urbino on Apr 13, 2023 0:25:13 GMT -5
John LeCarre is pretty amazing. But when life gets busy I have to go to short stories that I can finish before my next assignment. With LeCarre I find, if I put it down for too long, I have to re-read about a third of what I read last time. Grrrr. I just finished The Spy Who Came in From the Cold. Saw the movie, ages ago, and remembered little about it. I haven't read a ton of LeCarre. Just the Smiley novels, basically. But of the ones I have read, this one is easily the darkest and most cynical. |
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Post by toshtego on Apr 13, 2023 10:03:26 GMT -5
John LeCarre is pretty amazing. But when life gets busy I have to go to short stories that I can finish before my next assignment. With LeCarre I find, if I put it down for too long, I have to re-read about a third of what I read last time. Grrrr. I just finished The Spy Who Came in From the Cold. Saw the movie, ages ago, and remembered little about it. I haven't read a ton of LeCarre. Just the Smiley novels, basically. But of the ones I have read, this one is easily the darkest and most cynical. The movie, with Richard Burton, Cyril Cusak, Peter Van Eyck, Oscar Werner and Clarie Bloom holds up very well. I saw that movie when first released in 1965 and it shaped my view of the Cold War and the DDR in particular. |
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Post by jeffd on Apr 13, 2023 14:58:05 GMT -5
My goto these days in short stories, are hard boiled detective noir type stories. I have read all the classics. Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and the like. Now I have gotten into modern detective fiction. And there is a lot to love: www.akashicbooks.com/subject/noir-series/ |
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Post by coalsmoke on Apr 13, 2023 15:14:25 GMT -5
I just ordered a copy of "All Creatures Great and Small" by James Wight aka James Herriot.
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Post by Zach on Apr 13, 2023 17:04:22 GMT -5
Finally getting around to starting Snowcrash by Neal Stephenson just tonight.
Last finished four short stories by Leo Tolstoy; Family Happiness, The Death of Ivan Ilych, The Kreutzer Sonata, & Master and Man. Wonderful writing.
Then I finished Worm by Mark Bowden. It was fairly full of typos, bad editing, and the Conficker writer was never caught, so there's really no conclusion but it did add a few details about those involved in reverse engineering the worm and sinkholing the Command & Control calls and jacking the domains.
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