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Post by Ronv69 on Sept 16, 2024 16:36:26 GMT -5
Looking back at it, I can see how the way I replied without thinking about the context does make it look like I was directly saying that towards you. For that I apologize. It can be hard to fully convey something dryly over text and it looks as if I replied at you specifically addressing you. I only meant to say it in general about audiobooks when they were brought up. You’re totally right that on car trips would be an excellent time to listen to them and better use than just bland radio. You’ve reminded me the only other audiobook set I listened to also around 13 years back was a full series on CDs about ancient Mesoamerican civilizations. I may have to give Audible a try with books I would otherwise not get to for car trips or work drives. The first book I listened through as an audiobook was Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker - by Kevin Mitnick back in 2011. Prior to that, I think I tried one of the later Harry Potter novels (Goblet of Fire maybe) and just could not stand the narrator. It may have been an early experience that really put me off from them. I absolutely agree with you that one can absorb a book from audio. I think the hangup is in the text and my anal-retentiveness. I meant in the most black and white way and so very literal, matter of fact, as in we can’t drink with our eyes, we can’t read with our ears, we can’t listen with the eyes. In my mind, it is in no way an attack or meant negatively to say plainly that you read with your eyes and listen with your ears and that words have meanings. In person it would make sense and we’d laugh about it being a binary thing. In the context you are totally right and I did not mean to devalue yours, or anyone else’s joy of experiencing a book in this way. I’m willing to give several of them a try as long as I can tolerate the prosody, intonations, and phoneme usage. OK, friends again! If it was physics or similar, I got to have it on paper. Though the Richard Fineman lectures are the best, I have to listen to them 4 or 5 times to get it in my head. But Tom Clancy or similar, no problem. |
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Post by urbino on Sept 16, 2024 21:47:06 GMT -5
I'm not good about posting my reading. I've been re-reading Middlemarch, again. I feel like I'm always re-reading Middlemarch, which is fine with me. I also just sat down and read Dostoevsky's White Nights, which is a long short-story or a short novella. Meanwhile, I'm also re-reading Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell.
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Post by Ronv69 on Sept 17, 2024 21:28:27 GMT -5
I'm not good about posting my reading. I've been re-reading Middlemarch, again. I feel like I'm always re-reading Middlemarch, which is fine with me. I also just sat down and read Dostoevsky's White Nights, which is a long short-story or a short novella. Meanwhile, I'm also re-reading Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. I just read a relatively unknown self published book for the 5th time in 27 years. I rarely read anything more than twice. It's just comfortable now like old shoes or Casablanca. The writer is ashamed of it although most people think it's his masterpiece and he doesn't want it distributed. I enjoyed Strange and Norrell, but I can't see reading it it again. And yes, I read those books printed on paper. I think the next one I will re-read is going to be Warbreaker by Sanderson. Then I may go through the Master and Commander books. We'll see how my eyes hold up. I only have these on paper, Zach. 😉 |
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Post by urbino on Sept 17, 2024 22:09:55 GMT -5
I'm not good about posting my reading. I've been re-reading Middlemarch, again. I feel like I'm always re-reading Middlemarch, which is fine with me. I also just sat down and read Dostoevsky's White Nights, which is a long short-story or a short novella. Meanwhile, I'm also re-reading Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. I just read a relatively unknown self published book for the 5th time in 27 years. I rarely read anything more than twice. It's just comfortable now like old shoes or Casablanca. The writer is ashamed of it although most people think it's his masterpiece and he doesn't want it distributed. I enjoyed Strange and Norrell, but I can't see reading it it again. And yes, I read those books printed on paper. I think the next one I will re-read is going to be Warbreaker by Sanderson. Then I may go through the Master and Commander books. We'll see how my eyes hold up. I only have these on paper, Zach. 😉 In most cases, if I'm rereading something, it means there are characters I really enjoyed -- JS&MN, Yiddish Policemen's Union, Tale of Two Cities, The Long Ships, The Secret History (Tartt, not Procopius), the Dragon Tattoo books, etc. Middlemarch is an exception in being more than that. |
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Post by Mrs. Zarnicky on Sept 18, 2024 8:24:22 GMT -5
Zarnicky reading posts on Briar Patch.
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Post by mgtarheel on Sept 18, 2024 16:31:54 GMT -5
Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit
John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker
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Post by Ronv69 on Sept 19, 2024 12:22:06 GMT -5
I just read a relatively unknown self published book for the 5th time in 27 years. I rarely read anything more than twice. It's just comfortable now like old shoes or Casablanca. The writer is ashamed of it although most people think it's his masterpiece and he doesn't want it distributed. I enjoyed Strange and Norrell, but I can't see reading it it again. And yes, I read those books printed on paper. I think the next one I will re-read is going to be Warbreaker by Sanderson. Then I may go through the Master and Commander books. We'll see how my eyes hold up. I only have these on paper, Zach. 😉 In most cases, if I'm rereading something, it means there are characters I really enjoyed -- JS&MN, Yiddish Policemen's Union, Tale of Two Cities, The Long Ships, The Secret History (Tartt, not Procopius), the Dragon Tattoo books, etc. Middlemarch is an exception in being more than that. Tale of Two Cities is one I've read 3 times. Still think it's the greatest novel I have ever read. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Sept 19, 2024 12:23:39 GMT -5
Picked up an old romance novel from the wife's junk drawer yesterday. It isn't not entertaining. 😏
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Post by Ronv69 on Sept 22, 2024 21:53:38 GMT -5
I just saw that we lost Nelson DeMille. A great writer. I was locked into Sci-fi in the 80s when I picked up a copy of Cathedral. Started me on a long journey of modern fiction. He will be remembered for a long time.
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Post by khiddy on Sept 23, 2024 11:36:16 GMT -5
I just finished _My Lady Nicotine: A Study in Smoke_, and while the chapters were uneven in quality (lots of diversionary bits that require way too much knowledge of Barrie's contemporaries to understand the references), overall I found it delightful and may re-read it. I was directed to it by the post on the homepage from Morley in which he speaks of the Arcadia Mixture, and am glad to have read it. It made a lovely companion to several bowls of tasty tobacco while sitting on the patio.
And not to re-raise a potentially touchy subject, I did actually listen to it as an audiobook via LibriVox, which is volunteer readers, so the quality of the reading was also uneven, though quite sufficient for light entertainment.
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Post by Zach on Sept 25, 2024 13:11:20 GMT -5
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Post by Zach on Sept 25, 2024 13:14:59 GMT -5
I just finished _My Lady Nicotine: A Study in Smoke_, and while the chapters were uneven in quality (lots of diversionary bits that require way too much knowledge of Barrie's contemporaries to understand the references), overall I found it delightful and may re-read it. I was directed to it by the post on the homepage from Morley in which he speaks of the Arcadia Mixture, and am glad to have read it. It made a lovely companion to several bowls of tasty tobacco while sitting on the patio. And not to re-raise a potentially touchy subject, I did actually listen to it as an audiobook via LibriVox, which is volunteer readers, so the quality of the reading was also uneven, though quite sufficient for light entertainment. Welcome to the forums. I’m located in Fort Wayne. Been a while since I’ve read My Lady Nicotine. Barrie would later in life turn against tobacco. |
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Post by khiddy on Sept 26, 2024 14:34:39 GMT -5
I just finished _My Lady Nicotine: A Study in Smoke_, and while the chapters were uneven in quality (lots of diversionary bits that require way too much knowledge of Barrie's contemporaries to understand the references), overall I found it delightful and may re-read it. I was directed to it by the post on the homepage from Morley in which he speaks of the Arcadia Mixture, and am glad to have read it. It made a lovely companion to several bowls of tasty tobacco while sitting on the patio. And not to re-raise a potentially touchy subject, I did actually listen to it as an audiobook via LibriVox, which is volunteer readers, so the quality of the reading was also uneven, though quite sufficient for light entertainment. Welcome to the forums. I’m located in Fort Wayne. Been a while since I’ve read My Lady Nicotine. Barrie would later in life turn against tobacco. Thank you for the welcome! I hear good things about Riegel's, and it appears that may be my closest actual B&M tobacconist, so I hope to make it down some day to do some browsing. As to MLN, Barrie does hint at the end of the book that he was giving the pipe up, so it doesn't surprise me at all that he actually did. |
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Post by mgtarheel on Oct 2, 2024 9:03:49 GMT -5
"Journey Into Darkness" by John E. Douglas & Mark Olshaker
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Post by Ronv69 on Oct 3, 2024 13:00:58 GMT -5
Reading up on my family tree. I feel like a failure, but at least I will not die like some of my ancestors.
"Dico tibi verum libertas optima rerum nunquam servili sub nexu vivito fili."
– William Wallace
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Post by mgtarheel on Oct 9, 2024 19:56:21 GMT -5
"Artemis" by Andy Weir
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Post by trailboss on Oct 9, 2024 21:28:37 GMT -5
Reading up on my family tree. I feel like a failure, but at least I will not die like some of my ancestors. "Dico tibi verum libertas optima rerum nunquam servili sub nexu vivito fili." – William Wallace I had to cheat… Translation: “I tell you the truth: Freedom is what is best. Sons, never live life like slaves.”] Truer words… |
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Post by Ronv69 on Oct 9, 2024 23:27:03 GMT -5
I read The Martian and Hail Mary. I really need to read some more of his books. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Oct 9, 2024 23:28:07 GMT -5
Reading up on my family tree. I feel like a failure, but at least I will not die like some of my ancestors. "Dico tibi verum libertas optima rerum nunquam servili sub nexu vivito fili." – William Wallace I had to cheat… Translation: “I tell you the truth: Freedom is what is best. Sons, never live life like slaves.”] Truer words… Of course you had to Google it. So did I. Maybe Plainsman would be able to read in in Latin. |
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Post by toshtego on Oct 10, 2024 2:08:56 GMT -5
Taking a break from the French and Indian War series to read Larry Bond's Novel "Cold Choices", Russian and USA submarine encounter in The Barents Sea. Well researched. More about those subs than I knew, not that I knew much except when the plug is pulled they go down and hopefully come back up, eventually.  . |
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Post by Plainsman on Oct 10, 2024 11:50:03 GMT -5
From the book MONEY AND BANKING IN MARYLAND…
“ In 1730 Maryland sent 40,606,000 pounds of tobacco to Great Britain (35,080,000 to England and 5,526,000 to Scotland). By 1742, that total had risen to 53,206,000; in 1770 Maryland exported 100 million pounds of the weed to the Mother Country, almost half to Glasgow, whose merchant houses -- by means of representatives or ‘factors’ -- opened stores in the Chesapeake, sold British goods, and accepted tobacco in exchange.”
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Post by exbenedict on Oct 10, 2024 12:44:08 GMT -5
Currently perusing The Journal of Financial Research, The Journal of Finance and Quantitative Analysis, and for a light amuse-bouche I'm perusing the Ars Quatuor Coronatorum Transaction Book Volume 136 I just received.
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Post by toshtego on Oct 10, 2024 15:27:44 GMT -5
From the book MONEY AND BANKING IN MARYLAND… “ In 1730 Maryland sent 40,606,000 pounds of tobacco to Great Britain (35,080,000 to England and 5,526,000 to Scotland). By 1742, that total had risen to 53,206,000; in 1770 Maryland exported 100 million pounds of the weed to the Mother Country, almost half to Glasgow, whose merchant houses -- by means of representatives or ‘factors’ -- opened stores in the Chesapeake, sold British goods, and accepted tobacco in exchange.” That is some good leaf. Mostly gold Virginia type I am guessing. |
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Post by toshtego on Oct 12, 2024 18:32:46 GMT -5
Alien Earths: the New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos by Lisa Kateneeger. She is an Astrophysics Professor and researcher using the Jim Webb Radio telescope to look at the light emitted through reflection from other worlds. She is interested in biological life and makes no pretense about anything more complex than bacteria. With 200,000,000,000 stars in our galaxy alone and the billions of other galaxies further away, she has her work cut out for her. She makes a good case for simple life existing out there.
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Post by mgtarheel on Oct 21, 2024 10:23:55 GMT -5
"Agency" by William Gibson
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Post by Ronv69 on Oct 26, 2024 17:24:44 GMT -5
The White Peacock by D.H. Lawrence.
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Post by mgtarheel on Oct 27, 2024 9:15:07 GMT -5
"The Martian" by Andy Weir
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Post by toshtego on Oct 27, 2024 10:36:50 GMT -5
"The Martian" by Andy Weir I assume that is the book the movie was based upon. I would like to read that. Loved the movie. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Oct 27, 2024 14:30:52 GMT -5
"The Martian" by Andy Weir I assume that is the book the movie was based upon. I would like to read that. Loved the movie. Both are very good. |
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Post by toshtego on Oct 27, 2024 20:27:05 GMT -5
I assume that is the book the movie was based upon. I would like to read that. Loved the movie. Both are very good. Does the book go into more detail about minimizing radiation exposure on the Martian surface? |
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