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Post by henry on Dec 30, 2022 14:21:18 GMT -5
There's a new two volume novel by Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger. Can't wait to get it.
McCarthy's dark but riveting. I think Blood Meridian is competitive for the novel of the 20th century. Much like Moby Dick or Huckleberry Finn were for the 19th century.
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Post by Ronv69 on Dec 30, 2022 15:12:19 GMT -5
Finished the last Gideon Crew novel, The Pharoah Key by Preston and Child. Pretty good.
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Post by don on Dec 30, 2022 15:16:49 GMT -5
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Post by Ronv69 on Dec 30, 2022 15:22:05 GMT -5
I've read that one and the previous in the series. Very good Sci-fi with a touch of Lovecraft. |
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Post by don on Dec 30, 2022 15:26:01 GMT -5
14 was very good. I am liking this one quite a bit more. I enjoy this style of writing. Fun stuff.
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Post by Plainsman on Dec 30, 2022 15:45:52 GMT -5
Just finished THE DAHMER INTERROGATIONS by Patrick Kennedy, the cop he liked and trusted, and who managed to identify all of his victims and “sew him up.” Some hard reading, as I’m sure you can imagine.
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Post by Ronv69 on Dec 30, 2022 16:05:06 GMT -5
Just finished THE DAHMER INTERROGATIONS by Patrick Kennedy, the cop he liked and trusted, and who managed to identify all of his victims and “sew him up.” Some hard reading, as I’m sure you can imagine. I find that I can't handle that stuff anymore. Killing/torturing bad guys is one thing, but not the innocents. I need to get back to the book on Cynthia Ann Parker, but I guess I'll just skip the first chapter. |
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Post by urbino on Dec 30, 2022 18:31:14 GMT -5
There's a new two volume novel by Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger. Can't wait to get it. McCarthy's dark but riveting. I think Blood Meridian is competitive for the novel of the 20th century. Much like Moby Dick or Huckleberry Finn were for the 19th century. It made a lasting impression on me. |
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Post by mgtarheel on Dec 31, 2022 15:44:44 GMT -5
The Cycle Of Galand by Edward W. Robertson
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Post by Zach on Jan 2, 2023 22:24:54 GMT -5
After I finished Crime and Punishment I moved onto reading The Stories of Ray Brandbury, The Everyman's Library edition which contains 100 of his short stories. I'm reading some of these and then I'll come back to this copy at a later point.
I'm sniping for rare copies of other Dostoevsky novels on Ebay and I came across the original 1st print in America (1886 Crowell ) listed for... $10,000. There are 45 people watching the book!
I already have a 1960's copy of Notes From the Underground and The Grand Inquisitor. I got a copy of Dostoevsky's White Nights for cheap with free shipping in a PenguinClassics copy paperback in very good condition. A copy of The Idiot (Constance Garnett translation)
I think I'm going to have to bite the bullet and rebuy The Brother's Karamazov, & The Devil new from Barne's and Noble because they are the only place who has new prints in Richard Pevear's and Larissa Volokhonsky's translation.
I'm starting Notes From the Underground & The Grand Inquisitor In the next day or two.
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Post by instymp on Jan 3, 2023 9:30:28 GMT -5
Tom Clancy, Red Winter
by Marc Cameron
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Post by Plainsman on Jan 3, 2023 9:59:25 GMT -5
Finished WELLINGTON’S RIFLES by Ray Cusik (2016). The early history of the British rifle regiments. Lots of detail about the Baker rifle and the training and disposition of riflemen. Concentrates on the Peninsula Campaign and Waterloo. Interesting book but also frustrating. Disjointed, repetitious, poorly organized. A book desperately in need of an editor. You will have to be interested in the subject-matter nuggets to wade through it.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 3, 2023 12:19:30 GMT -5
Finished WELLINGTON’S RIFLES by Ray Cusik (2016). The early history of the British rifle regiments. Lots of detail about the Baker rifle and the training and disposition of riflemen. Concentrates on the Peninsula Campaign and Waterloo. Interesting book but also frustrating. Disjointed, repetitious, poorly organized. A book desperately in need of an editor. You will have to be interested in the subject-matter nuggets to wade through it. Sounds like a reference book for the Sharpe stories. |
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Post by sperrytops on Jan 3, 2023 12:39:40 GMT -5
Currently reading The Book of The Smoke, Investigator's Guide to Occult London, and The Book of The New Jerusalem, both by August Darcy. These are more like travelogues, the first of occult locations in London, the other of occult locations across England. Written around 1925. Author's body was later found floating in the Thames River. Ordered the Gospel of Mary of Magdala, Jesus and the First Woman Apostle, by Karen King.
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Post by toshtego on Jan 3, 2023 12:41:07 GMT -5
There's a new two volume novel by Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger. Can't wait to get it. McCarthy's dark but riveting. I think Blood Meridian is competitive for the novel of the 20th century. Much like Moby Dick or Huckleberry Finn were for the 19th century. I look forward to that. Agree with your assessment of C.M. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 3, 2023 12:53:08 GMT -5
There's a new two volume novel by Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger. Can't wait to get it. McCarthy's dark but riveting. I think Blood Meridian is competitive for the novel of the 20th century. Much like Moby Dick or Huckleberry Finn were for the 19th century. I look forward to that. Agree with your assessment of C.M. I've looked at Blood Meridian before and decided it's not for me. I also can't get into Moby Dick. Just not my thing. |
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Post by toshtego on Jan 3, 2023 12:59:15 GMT -5
I look forward to that. Agree with your assessment of C.M. I've looked at Blood Meridian before and decided it's not for me. I also can't get into Moby Dick. Just not my thing. is one of my favorite novels. I can understand why some do not enjoy the style of mid 19th century American literature. For me, Melville is a real "card". I mean he is a humorist of rare proportions. Also, I used to walk the trails he walked with Hawthorne in Berkshire, Massachusetts. I sat upon the flat rocks they sat upon atop Monument Mountain. I could dream of what Berkshire was like then before all the G.D. New Yorkers arrived  . |
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 3, 2023 13:04:20 GMT -5
I've looked at Blood Meridian before and decided it's not for me. I also can't get into Moby Dick. Just not my thing. is one of my favorite novels. I can understand why some do not enjoy the style of mid 19th century American literature. For me, Melville is a real "card". I mean he is a humorist of rare proportions. Also, I used to walk the trails he walked with Hawthorne in Berkshire, Massachusetts. I sat upon the flat rocks they sat upon atop Monument Mountain. I could dream of what Berkshire was like then before all the G.D. New Yorkers arrived . I like language, I think Ivanhoe is beautiful. To me, there is something ugly about the language of Moby Dick. Blood Meridian seems like a novel with no good people and lots of horrible behavior. I like stories with heroes. |
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Post by Zach on Jan 3, 2023 19:13:29 GMT -5
I've read a good deal of classic literature and often come back to it after bouts in sci-fi or other various action/crime/adventure novels. Lately I've been on Russian classic lit but I'll make my way back to America sometime soon. I used to have little world classics editions of Moby Dick and Little Women, and a few others when I was really young but they were lost as I got older and never fully read. I do intend on reading Moby Dick at some point. Of "World Classics" I'll likely not read (won't say never) I'd throw Les Misérables at the top of the list. At 2349 pages, and the story and content and writing style just does not interest me. And this, from someone who read Anna Karenina.
I generally intend to finish the majority of all the other classics.
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Post by Zach on Jan 3, 2023 20:08:47 GMT -5
If you use a good keyboard on a desktop computer, love to type, or are a treasured masochist, you may wish to check out typelit.io
Where you can practice typing by retyping entire classic novels on the site.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 3, 2023 20:59:03 GMT -5
I've read a good deal of classic literature and often come back to it after bouts in sci-fi or other various action/crime/adventure novels. Lately I've been on Russian classic lit but I'll make my way back to America sometime soon. I used to have little world classics editions of Moby Dick and Little Women, and a few others when I was really young but they were lost as I got older and never fully read. I do intend on reading Moby Dick at some point. Of "World Classics" I'll likely not read (won't say never) I'd throw Les Misérables at the top of the list. At 2349 pages, and the story and content and writing style just does not interest me. And this, from someone who read Anna Karenina.
I generally intend to finish the majority of all the other classics.
My son has copies of Moby Dick and The Phantom of the Opera that were abridged for children. Maybe I'll see if he still has them. Thing is that I can't even stand to watch Moby Dick as a movie. 😉 And, at 72, I just don't want to read anything I don't get into immediately. |
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Post by Plainsman on Jan 3, 2023 21:02:53 GMT -5
I've read a good deal of classic literature and often come back to it after bouts in sci-fi or other various action/crime/adventure novels. Lately I've been on Russian classic lit but I'll make my way back to America sometime soon. I used to have little world classics editions of Moby Dick and Little Women, and a few others when I was really young but they were lost as I got older and never fully read. I do intend on reading Moby Dick at some point. Of "World Classics" I'll likely not read (won't say never) I'd throw Les Misérables at the top of the list. At 2349 pages, and the story and content and writing style just does not interest me. And this, from someone who read Anna Karenina.
I generally intend to finish the majority of all the other classics.
My son has copies of Moby Dick and The Phantom of the Opera that were abridged for children. Maybe I'll see if he still has them. Thing is that I can't even stand to watch Moby Dick as a movie. 😉 And, at 72, I just don't want to read anything I don't get into immediately. A man should know his limitations. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 3, 2023 21:06:34 GMT -5
My son has copies of Moby Dick and The Phantom of the Opera that were abridged for children. Maybe I'll see if he still has them. Thing is that I can't even stand to watch Moby Dick as a movie. 😉 And, at 72, I just don't want to read anything I don't get into immediately. A man should know his limitations. Yep. It's probably different without a wife. I used to read long books when I was by myself, but in the last 46 years I just can't find the quiet time. |
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Post by Plainsman on Jan 3, 2023 21:35:09 GMT -5
Yes. I thought I would miss one. I don’t.
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Post by terrapinflyer on Jan 4, 2023 8:10:56 GMT -5
If you use a good keyboard on a desktop computer, love to type, or are a treasured masochist, you may wish to check out typelit.io Where you can practice typing by retyping entire classic novels on the site. That's a no for me! I'm curious to whom that would be appealing, though. I did volunteer proofing OCR texts of public domain books for Project Gutenberg for a while. It was always something in public domain and I always got assigned pages from the middle of forgettable Victorian novels. A couple hours a day staring at this stuff and modern, conversational English seemed strange. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 4, 2023 11:10:08 GMT -5
I went to High school with a girl in my typing class that regularly typed 210 words a minute on a Royal manual typewriter, sometimes pushing 270. I wonder what she's been doing since 1985.
She would probably like that.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 4, 2023 11:24:07 GMT -5
If you use a good keyboard on a desktop computer, love to type, or are a treasured masochist, you may wish to check out typelit.io Where you can practice typing by retyping entire classic novels on the site. That's a no for me! I'm curious to whom that would be appealing, though. I did volunteer proofing OCR texts of public domain books for Project Gutenberg for a while. It was always something in public domain and I always got assigned pages from the middle of forgettable Victorian novels. A couple hours a day staring at this stuff and modern, conversational English seemed strange. I looked at that site. I think it's the best typing training I've ever seen. If I needed to type faster I would definitely try it. In school I typed a regular 110 words per minute,on the Royal. Years later I had a job that required me to type daily reports in Word Perfect. I was much faster then. Ioved that program! The first versions of Word had WP emulation, but it wasn't close to the real thing. |
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Post by exbenedict on Jan 4, 2023 11:30:08 GMT -5
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Post by Zach on Jan 4, 2023 16:47:07 GMT -5
If you use a good keyboard on a desktop computer, love to type, or are a treasured masochist, you may wish to check out typelit.io Where you can practice typing by retyping entire classic novels on the site. That's a no for me! I'm curious to whom that would be appealing, though. I did volunteer proofing OCR texts of public domain books for Project Gutenberg for a while. It was always something in public domain and I always got assigned pages from the middle of forgettable Victorian novels. A couple hours a day staring at this stuff and modern, conversational English seemed strange. I typed the first 6 pages on there last night of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four until my wrists were over it. Hit 110 WPM but it would get old after much more than that. I do love typing. Hunter S. Thompson would famously type out entire favorite novels to practice typing and to spark writing creativity. That's funny about reading all the old Victorian English. I sort of feel that way after reading long classics as well. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 4, 2023 19:27:29 GMT -5
The True And Detailed Racist History Of The Democrat Party: 1830-2020
by Robert R. Zerfing
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