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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 26, 2018 20:39:06 GMT -5
Just started "The Jekyll Revelation" pretty interesting story so far.
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Post by JDunbar on Jan 28, 2018 11:41:03 GMT -5
Open Season (Joe Pickett, #1) Audio Book.
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Post by Dramatwist on Jan 30, 2018 1:59:48 GMT -5
"Thrilling Cities" by Ian Fleming, "A Legacy of Spies" by John Le Carre
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Post by zambini on Jan 31, 2018 18:53:24 GMT -5
Read this on your advice. I liked the tobacciana section particularly; I did not know there was a papal bull issued against tobacco use in churches. |
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Post by Darin on Feb 1, 2018 6:35:33 GMT -5
Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis ... found a 1945 hardback copy for my wife's last birthday and decided to read it again myself.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2018 8:13:21 GMT -5
Old Testament, Book of Job.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2018 1:29:28 GMT -5
Old Testament, Book of Job. You should listen to the Joni Mitchell song then |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2018 1:30:46 GMT -5
Read my first book online- Joni Mitchell " In Her Own Words"
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Post by peterd-Buffalo Spirit on Feb 4, 2018 8:14:09 GMT -5
...selected Poems by Coleridge, Longfellow, etc. two of my favorites..."The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "The Skeleton in Armor"...
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Post by zambini on Feb 4, 2018 13:38:17 GMT -5
Old Testament, Book of Job. I was arguing with my cousing yesterday about this; do you consider Job a fleshed out character in the modern sense or more of a container for virtues and general sentiments that the writer was trying to convey? Do you feel he has 'agency'? |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2018 5:02:11 GMT -5
Old Testament, Book of Job. You should listen to the Joni Mitchell song then Thanks Marty. I really enjoyed that. Going to check out the rest of that album. I've always loved her voice. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2018 5:12:49 GMT -5
Old Testament, Book of Job. I was arguing with my cousing yesterday about this; do you consider Job a fleshed out character in the modern sense or more of a container for virtues and general sentiments that the writer was trying to convey? Do you feel he has 'agency'? Tough question, that I am pondering. I don't have an answer for you. Maybe would be the best I can come up with. |
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Post by Dramatwist on Feb 8, 2018 5:15:26 GMT -5
re-reading "The Hawkline Monster" by Richard Brautigan
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 8, 2018 11:09:04 GMT -5
Put The Jekyll Revelation on hold for a while. Just started Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by RLS. Better late than never.
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 8, 2018 11:52:51 GMT -5
...selected Poems by Coleridge, Longfellow, etc. two of my favorites..."The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "The Skeleton in Armor"... Funny, but I have been dipping into Kubla Khan in small doses. The others are to follow this year. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 8, 2018 12:09:00 GMT -5
Old Testament, Book of Job. I was arguing with my cousing yesterday about this; do you consider Job a fleshed out character in the modern sense or more of a container for virtues and general sentiments that the writer was trying to convey? Do you feel he has 'agency'? I have wondered about this myself. No answers though. I have a lot of problems trying to reconcile the G-d of the OT with the G-d of the NT. I am just thankful that we have someone to intervene on our behalf. |
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Post by trailboss on Feb 8, 2018 12:14:27 GMT -5
I fear that had I live in OT times, I might have been part of something like Korah's rebellion, had I lived 2,000 years ago been part of the fickle.....ahh, undeserved providence!
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Post by zambini on Feb 8, 2018 23:31:21 GMT -5
I was arguing with my cousing yesterday about this; do you consider Job a fleshed out character in the modern sense or more of a container for virtues and general sentiments that the writer was trying to convey? Do you feel he has 'agency'? I have wondered about this myself. No answers though. I have a lot of problems trying to reconcile the G-d of the OT with the G-d of the NT. I am just thankful that we have someone to intervene on our behalf. You don't figure he just decided to try a new management strategy? It seems to me that he tried a bunch throughout. |
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Post by zambini on Feb 8, 2018 23:42:22 GMT -5
I was arguing with my cousing yesterday about this; do you consider Job a fleshed out character in the modern sense or more of a container for virtues and general sentiments that the writer was trying to convey? Do you feel he has 'agency'? Tough question, that I am pondering. I don't have an answer for you. Maybe would be the best I can come up with. I kind of agree with you. I mean, bottom line Job's agency is seen in his moaning but continously giving himself to God but at the same time he doesn't strike me as a real personality. What kind of person would see no individuallity in the kids etc he loses that he thinks it a net benefit that he gets numerically more at the end? If anything Satan is more of a character but even then he doesn't seem as complete as Milton's Satan. Elihu's entrance and sudden disappearance also strikes me as odd even if his intervention is timely. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 9, 2018 0:36:06 GMT -5
I have wondered about this myself. No answers though. I have a lot of problems trying to reconcile the G-d of the OT with the G-d of the NT. I am just thankful that we have someone to intervene on our behalf. You don't figure he just decided to try a new management strategy? It seems to me that he tried a bunch throughout. I don't try to understand G-d. His ways are not our ways. The best explanation of man's relationship with G-d for me comes from the Bhagavad Gita. Most of it doesn't translate well to Christianity, but there's one part in it where Krishna shows Arjuna just how big the difference is between man and G-d. Basically, little man, don't even think that you can begin to comprehend me. |
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Post by JDunbar on Feb 9, 2018 9:23:38 GMT -5
Just started "If on a Winter's Night a Traveler" by Italo Calvino. A book about books by the sound of it. Looks like a good one!  |
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Post by zambini on Feb 9, 2018 9:26:36 GMT -5
You don't figure he just decided to try a new management strategy? It seems to me that he tried a bunch throughout. I don't try to understand G-d. His ways are not our ways. The best explanation of man's relationship with G-d for me comes from the Bhagavad Gita. Most of it doesn't translate well to Christianity, but there's one part in it where Krishna shows Arjuna just how big the difference is between man and G-d. Basically, little man, don't even think that you can begin to comprehend me. -Sigh- No one appreciates hubris any more. Hehe. |
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Post by PhantomWolf on Feb 9, 2018 13:24:10 GMT -5
About to finish Blood Meridian. I had left it at camp way back when. Only takes a page to put you right back in the world. His writing is at times awe-inducing.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2018 15:29:45 GMT -5
I finally landed in abebooks a used but decent copy of Mika Waltari's The Egyptian, which I probably should have read decades ago but didn't when I learned that the English translation was an abridgement of the original Finnish (apparently American publishers were afraid that people wouldn't "Finnish" an unabridged version). I will soon learn if I missed something all those years ago or if my smart sense was working right all the time, until recently.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2018 15:48:57 GMT -5
I finally landed in abebooks a used but decent copy of Mika Waltari's The Egyptian, which I probably should have read decades ago but didn't when I learned that the English translation was an abridgement of the original Finnish (apparently American publishers were afraid that people wouldn't "Finnish" an unabridged version). I will soon learn if I missed something all those years ago or if my smart sense was working right all the time, until recently. a pun that egregious, strains the brain!  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2018 21:22:57 GMT -5
I finally landed in abebooks a used but decent copy of Mika Waltari's The Egyptian, which I probably should have read decades ago but didn't when I learned that the English translation was an abridgement of the original Finnish (apparently American publishers were afraid that people wouldn't "Finnish" an unabridged version). I will soon learn if I missed something all those years ago or if my smart sense was working right all the time, until recently. I've had that book lying around for decades. I guess I need to read it one of these days! I also have a series on ancient Egypt by Joan Grant, written in the 30s. They were published as novels, but she claimed they were genuine reincarnation memories. They're supposed to be very good. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 9, 2018 22:14:25 GMT -5
I finally landed in abebooks a used but decent copy of Mika Waltari's The Egyptian, which I probably should have read decades ago but didn't when I learned that the English translation was an abridgement of the original Finnish (apparently American publishers were afraid that people wouldn't "Finnish" an unabridged version). I will soon learn if I missed something all those years ago or if my smart sense was working right all the time, until recently. I read the book recently because I have loved the movie since I was a kid, good book book, but mine wasn't abridged and I think I would be better if it was. There's a sequel but the word is that it is as bad as the first one was good. The prose style is really nice. That might have been lost in an abridged version. |
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Post by just ol ed on Feb 10, 2018 9:00:51 GMT -5
Current issues of NASPC & Pipes&Tobaccos (after finishing the papers).
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Post by Wolfman on Feb 10, 2018 10:56:27 GMT -5
'The Cold Six Thousand' by James Ellroy
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Post by Dramatwist on Feb 10, 2018 19:48:43 GMT -5
...re-reading "The Sacred Pipe" by Black Elk (Hehaka Sapa), (recorded by Joseph Epes Brown)...
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