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Post by Ronv69 on Jun 14, 2023 10:26:00 GMT -5
When the Lay-about at the USPS is identified, Captain Hornblower will probably order a Keelhaul. Or the New Mexico equivalent, being dragged 10 miles behind a mule. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Jun 14, 2023 10:29:15 GMT -5
Davies is the version I have, but I got sidetracked shortly after starting it, so I haven't gotten very far in it. As I recall, I think she said in the frontmatter that she tried to represent the original language as it would've been delivered aloud, emphasizing the rhythm and repetition. I quit about 2/3 of the way through. I usually have perfect retention of what I read, but I couldn't tell you a single story from this book. I'll try another translation later. |
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Post by Zach on Jun 17, 2023 9:40:49 GMT -5
I've recently snagged quite a few REALLY good book deals. Got a library large hardbound, large print copy of Ivanhoe Ronv69 for 25 cents. Picked up a copy of Ken Follett'sThe Pillars of the Earth and World Without End series for a few bucks for both. The Portable D.H. Lawrence for free and several others the past few weeks.
I most recently finished William Gibson's Pattern Recognition last weekend. Started Dostoevsky's White Nights last night and will finish it later this evening. I've been undecided on what to start next, but I think I may go with Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game. I recently picked up the 6th book in the series, The Shadow of Hegemon for only 25 cents from my downtown library. Having never read any of his books, The Ender Series is 20 books and I'll have to hunt down at least the next four to bridge the gap of what I'm missing. I need to order the next two books of the William Gibson (3rd trilogy I'm on of his), the Blue Ant Trilogy that starts with Pattern Recognition because I can't find them at my library or any local book stores.
EDIT: I did end up finding the next two Blue Ant Trilogy books at my downtown library, I just had to search them in the catalogue and they were in storage. Placing a hold on them should make them available for me later this afternoon.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jun 17, 2023 10:43:25 GMT -5
I've recently snagged quite a few REALLY good book deals. Got a library large hardbound, large print copy of Ivanhoe Ronv69 for 25 cents. Picked up a copy of Ken Follett'sThe Pillars of the Earth and World Without End series for a few bucks for both. The Portable D.H. Lawrence for free and several others the past few weeks.
I most recently finished William Gibson's Pattern Recognition last weekend. Started Dostoevsky's White Nights last night and will finish it later this evening. I've been undecided on what to start next, but I think I may go with Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game. I recently picked up the 6th book in the series, The Shadow of Hegemon for only 25 cents from my downtown library. Having never read any of his books, The Ender Series is 20 books and I'll have to hunt down at least the next four to bridge the gap of what I'm missing. I need to order the next two books of the William Gibson (3rd trilogy I'm on of his), the Blue Ant Trilogy that starts with Pattern Recognition because I can't find them at my library or any local book stores.
EDIT: I did end up finding the next two Blue Ant Trilogy books at my downtown library, I just had to search them in the catalogue and they were in storage. Placing a hold on them should make them available for me later this afternoon.
Lotta good books there. I found that the Ender series went downhill fast after the first 3 books. Good luck on slogging through the entire series. Those large print editions are cheap because people don't want to admit they're blind. 😁 My mom used to get the Readers Digest Condensed books and they sent her a large print edition once. Whoo-weeee. They were really good reading and I read some of them. I preferred the unabridged versions, but the condensed books didn't seem like less story, just less time. I had plenty of long hot summers to fill so I wanted the long versions. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reader%27s_Digest_Condensed_Books |
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Post by Zach on Jun 17, 2023 13:38:24 GMT -5
I figured for 25 cents, I can deal with large print in hardbound cloth so long as it's unabridged, and it is. I just got back from picking up four books from the library. I got both Gibson's Spook Country and Zero History to complete the Blue Ant Trilogy. I put both of them on hold a few hours before I headed there but didn't realize Zero History was out on the shelf in a different fiction section, and a hold for something in storage can take a couple days. Instead, I asked someone working in Reader's Services if they could get Spook Country out of storage, and she got the book for me within 10 minutes! Really love my downtown library. Also picked up I Sing the Body Electric! by Ray Bradbury (Not the Walt Whitman poem) and Late Antiquity:A Guide to the Postclassical World by G.W. Bowersock, Peter Brown, & Oleg Grabar. A big, dense boy, a hardback, on tons of late antiquity subjects; Roman empire, sacred landscapes and religions, wars, triumphs, gods, mysticism, various countries, papacies, zoology, etc.
I'm about to finish up the short Dostoevsky I'm on currently and I guess I'll start Spook Country next, instead of Ender's Game.
Ronv69 - Good to know about the Ender's Series getting boring after the first quintet. I'll have to play it by read, I may or may not get bored with them at that point but I can also be a stubborn completionist and force myself to slog through them. We'll see. What I'll likely do is continue the way I've been reading other series staggered throughout instead of one series all the way through. |
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Post by Zach on Jun 17, 2023 13:48:34 GMT -5
I've recently snagged quite a few REALLY good book deals. Got a library large hardbound, large print copy of Ivanhoe Ronv69 for 25 cents. Picked up a copy of Ken Follett'sThe Pillars of the Earth and World Without End series for a few bucks for both. The Portable D.H. Lawrence for free and several others the past few weeks.
I most recently finished William Gibson's Pattern Recognition last weekend. Started Dostoevsky's White Nights last night and will finish it later this evening. I've been undecided on what to start next, but I think I may go with Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game. I recently picked up the 6th book in the series, The Shadow of Hegemon for only 25 cents from my downtown library. Having never read any of his books, The Ender Series is 20 books and I'll have to hunt down at least the next four to bridge the gap of what I'm missing. I need to order the next two books of the William Gibson (3rd trilogy I'm on of his), the Blue Ant Trilogy that starts with Pattern Recognition because I can't find them at my library or any local book stores.
EDIT: I did end up finding the next two Blue Ant Trilogy books at my downtown library, I just had to search them in the catalogue and they were in storage. Placing a hold on them should make them available for me later this afternoon.
Lotta good books there. I found that the Ender series went downhill fast after the first 3 books. Good luck on slogging through the entire series. Those large print editions are cheap because people don't want to admit they're blind. 😁 My mom used to get the Readers Digest Condensed books and they sent her a large print edition once. Whoo-weeee. They were really good reading and I read some of them. I preferred the unabridged versions, but the condensed books didn't seem like less story, just less time. I had plenty of long hot summers to fill so I wanted the long versions. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reader%27s_Digest_Condensed_BooksI really can't even stand the idea of a "condensed book." Gives me the creeps. I still don't have my own nice copy of The Count of Montecristo because of the few I've found that I wanted, they turned out to be abridged. Disgusting. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Jun 17, 2023 13:48:35 GMT -5
Did you ever read Trinity by Leon Uris? Highly recommended.
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Post by Zach on Jun 17, 2023 13:50:08 GMT -5
Did you ever read Trinity by Leon Uris? Highly recommended. I've not heard of it but I'll have to look it up. |
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Post by trailboss on Jun 17, 2023 17:25:57 GMT -5
Did you ever read Trinity by Leon Uris? Highly recommended. I liked the gunfight scene. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Jun 17, 2023 21:55:18 GMT -5
Did you ever read Trinity by Leon Uris? Highly recommended. I liked the gunfight scene. Uuuhhh? |
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Post by SailorBen on Jun 18, 2023 0:10:02 GMT -5
Finished Twenty Thousand Leagues last night. Quite a ride and an abrupt ending, but a good experience overall. Tonight we start Mr. Midshipman Hornblower. Also if you add water to a "condensed book" does it reconstitute to the original version?  |
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Post by trailboss on Jun 18, 2023 1:54:26 GMT -5
I liked the gunfight scene. Uuuhhh? 😂 |
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Post by Ronv69 on Jun 18, 2023 12:24:05 GMT -5
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Post by trailboss on Jun 18, 2023 12:57:30 GMT -5
Pretty impressive!
They published your home address back then!
Different times, for sure.
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Post by Plainsman on Jun 18, 2023 13:02:31 GMT -5
Wow! Impressive indeed. What a great start!
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Post by mgtarheel on Jun 18, 2023 13:31:04 GMT -5
"The Lost City of the Monkey God" by Douglas Preston
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Post by Ronv69 on Jun 18, 2023 18:30:15 GMT -5
Pretty impressive! They published your home address back then! Different times, for sure. I don't live there anymore, but yeah, it was fine back then. And for the whole year I read 710 books that year. This was just for the duration of the library contest. |
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Post by toshtego on Jun 18, 2023 18:35:31 GMT -5
Finished Twenty Thousand Leagues last night. Quite a ride and an abrupt ending, but a good experience overall. Tonight we start Mr. Midshipman Hornblower. Also if you add water to a "condensed book" does it reconstitute to the original version? I am on an early Hornblower read. My books showed up at our local PO, finally. Seems they went the long way around the canyon and mountain. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Jun 18, 2023 18:39:41 GMT -5
Finished Twenty Thousand Leagues last night. Quite a ride and an abrupt ending, but a good experience overall. Tonight we start Mr. Midshipman Hornblower. Also if you add water to a "condensed book" does it reconstitute to the original version? I am on an early Hornblower read. My books showed up at our local PO, finally. Seems they went the long way around the canyon and mountain. Better late than never. I read all the ones I could find, I guess the others are in the barn. Same with the O'Brien books I found the first 4, but the rest are in limbo. |
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Post by Zach on Jun 19, 2023 19:06:29 GMT -5
Pretty impressive! They published your home address back then! Different times, for sure. I don't live there anymore, but yeah, it was fine back then. And for the whole year I read 710 books that year. This was just for the duration of the library contest. That was you, Ron?! Holy s*** I’ve barely read 40-50 books the past year. 710 books in a year is a massive feat. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Jun 20, 2023 0:39:00 GMT -5
I don't live there anymore, but yeah, it was fine back then. And for the whole year I read 710 books that year. This was just for the duration of the library contest. That was you, Ron?! Holy s*** I’ve barely read 40-50 books the past year. 710 books in a year is a massive feat. That was before I had a life. 5 years before I discovered girls and 6 years before I discovered card. I only read about 24 a year now. In case you were wondering, they tested me and I had 100% comprehension. I was a lot smarter back then. Also, note that most of those books weren't by Edward Gibbon or Fyodor Dostoevsky. They were mostly science fiction and adolescent adventures. But some were deep. I didn't read Mein Kamph until I was 13 and I was 15 before I read Lolita. It was a wide mix in other words. I probably had a Hornblower novel in there. The Bronze Bow and such. I think the next year I read the Complete Poe and a bunch of Shakespeare. I also had subscriptions to Life and Look magazines and about 10 comic books. A comic book only lasted me 3 minutes, but it was less than 2 bucks for a years subscription and less the more you bought. I was about 10 or 12 when my mom bought me the World Book encyclopedia. I read it every day until I read it through and the only thing I remember requesting as a gift was the annual update yearbook that went with it. But I'll read a newspaper or a calendar or the phonebook or pretty much anything you put in front of me. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Jun 22, 2023 12:06:42 GMT -5
Just finished reading "On The Bottom" by Admiral Edward Ellsberg. Fantastic true story about the recovery of US submarine S-51 in 1926. The submarine sank in 160' of water after being struck by The City of Rome ocean liner. 6 guys were able to get out and 3 survived out of a crew of 38. It's a story about dedication, teamwork endurance, and ingenuity. They came up against all the misery the North Atlantic could throw at them. It took 5 ships and a couple of dozen divers 2 years to get it done. It's not very far from the Titanic which made it more poignant this week.
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Post by mgtarheel on Jun 25, 2023 17:00:03 GMT -5
"Pronto" by Elmore Leonard
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Post by john on Jun 25, 2023 22:18:53 GMT -5
I just found this thread and decided to share some of what I’ve read in the past and where I am now. I see that @roncov69 and toshtego your interest is in sailing books. Here’s a couple you might be interested in, “The Atrocities of the Pirates” by Aaron Smith. It’s a diary of a sailor pressed into piracy. Then there’s “Lone Voyager” a story about a Glochester fisherman, Howard Blackburn, that lived in the 1880’s and was caught in a blizzard on the ocean while fishing from a schooner. Good reads both! |
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Post by Ronv69 on Jun 25, 2023 22:54:17 GMT -5
I just found this thread and decided to share some of what I’ve read in the past and where I am now. I see that @roncov69 and toshtego your interest is in sailing books. Here’s a couple you might be interested in, “The Atrocities of the Pirates” by Aaron Smith. It’s a diary of a sailor pressed into piracy. Then there’s “Lone Voyager” a story about a Glochester fisherman, Howard Blackburn, that lived in the 1880’s and was caught in a blizzard on the ocean while fishing from a schooner. Good reads both! There's a chant I have, "sailing is fun, sailing is fun" that I use in storms, calms, while a tanker is bearing down on me from windward, etc. I stick to mostly fun sailing books. 😉 |
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Post by don on Jun 26, 2023 10:53:41 GMT -5
Reading “Two Years Before the Mast”. Found a vintage hard bound copy for my dad for Christmas last year and bought myself one too. He always had Hornblower novels and Louis L’Amour Westerns on hand when I was a kid. He re-reads books multiple times. He has all the O’Brien books. I enjoy Westerns. Nautical books too. Have you guys read “In the Heart of the Sea” by Nathaniel Philbrick. Great book.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jun 26, 2023 15:11:28 GMT -5
Reading “Two Years Before the Mast”. Found a vintage hard bound copy for my dad for Christmas last year and bought myself one too. He always had Hornblower novels and Louis L’Amour Westerns on hand when I was a kid. He re-reads books multiple times. He has all the O’Brien books. I enjoy Westerns. Nautical books too. Have you guys read “In the Heart of the Sea” by Nathaniel Philbrick. Great book. Great book. I just started 20k Leagues under the Sea. It's been 63 years since I read it so it's new to me. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Jun 26, 2023 15:15:42 GMT -5
I just found this thread and decided to share some of what I’ve read in the past and where I am now. I see that @roncov69 and toshtego your interest is in sailing books. Here’s a couple you might be interested in, “The Atrocities of the Pirates” by Aaron Smith. It’s a diary of a sailor pressed into piracy. Then there’s “Lone Voyager” a story about a Glochester fisherman, Howard Blackburn, that lived in the 1880’s and was caught in a blizzard on the ocean while fishing from a schooner. Good reads both! There's a chant I have, "sailing is fun, sailing is fun" that I use in storms, calms, while a tanker is bearing down on me from windward, etc. I stick to mostly fun sailing books. 😉 I guess it's not surprising that most books about sailing involve misery and death. The sea is like another planet and not designed for people to live. So many things to go wrong. I don't think that I have ever gone out that I didn't lose or break a piece of expensive hardware. |
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Post by don on Jun 26, 2023 19:08:26 GMT -5
There's a chant I have, "sailing is fun, sailing is fun" that I use in storms, calms, while a tanker is bearing down on me from windward, etc. I stick to mostly fun sailing books. 😉 I guess it's not surprising that most books about sailing involve misery and death. The sea is like another planet and not designed for people to live. So many things to go wrong. I don't think that I have ever gone out that I didn't lose or break a piece of expensive hardware. The desert is that way too. Slightly more forgiving, though. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Jun 26, 2023 23:39:04 GMT -5
I guess it's not surprising that most books about sailing involve misery and death. The sea is like another planet and not designed for people to live. So many things to go wrong. I don't think that I have ever gone out that I didn't lose or break a piece of expensive hardware. The desert is that way too. Slightly more forgiving, though. A father and son died hiking in Big Bend National Park last week. No shade and no water is the end. Roy Bean didn't hang people. He just took their boots and horse and threw them out of town. At least in the desert if you stop you stay in the same place. But yeah, similar in a lot of ways. |
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