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Post by toshtego on Jun 11, 2022 11:19:47 GMT -5
Reading Robert Harris' book Pompeii.
The poor aqueduct superintendent tries to restore water service to the villages and towns around Mt. Vesuvius the day before the explosion. Nice primer on volcanos, Roman aqueducts, Roman lifestyle and values. When things go wrong....
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Post by Ronv69 on Jun 11, 2022 11:26:48 GMT -5
Reading Robert Harris' book Pompeii. The poor aqueduct superintendent tries to restore water service to the villages and towns around Mt. Vesuvius the day before the explosion. Nice primer on volcanos, Roman aqueducts, Roman lifestyle and values. When things go wrong.... It puts "bad day" into perspective, doesn't it? |
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Post by Plainsman on Jun 11, 2022 12:16:03 GMT -5
Reading Robert Harris' book Pompeii. The poor aqueduct superintendent tries to restore water service to the villages and towns around Mt. Vesuvius the day before the explosion. Nice primer on volcanos, Roman aqueducts, Roman lifestyle and values. When things go wrong.... It puts "bad day" into perspective, doesn't it? Nah. Just a little dust up. Way overblown. Ya gotta go with the flow. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Jun 11, 2022 14:41:04 GMT -5
It puts "bad day" into perspective, doesn't it? Nah. Just a little dust up. Way overblown. Ya gotta go with the flow. As if they had a choice. |
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Post by terrapinflyer on Jun 18, 2022 14:00:23 GMT -5
I've been bogged down in nonfiction lately, but a novel on my waitlist just came up: Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future, 2020. I read his Years of Rice and Salt last year and it was very good.
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Post by terrapinflyer on Jun 18, 2022 14:02:11 GMT -5
It puts "bad day" into perspective, doesn't it? Nah. Just a little dust up. Way overblown. Ya gotta go with the flow. That went *whoosh* over my head at first. I've been distracted. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Jun 18, 2022 14:27:38 GMT -5
Nah. Just a little dust up. Way overblown. Ya gotta go with the flow. That went *whoosh* over my head at first. I've been distracted. We're all trying to get distracted these days. Read a lot of KSR years ago, but I haven't read those. Sure to be good though. |
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Post by terrapinflyer on Jun 18, 2022 14:43:24 GMT -5
That went *whoosh* over my head at first. I've been distracted. We're all trying to get distracted these days. Read a lot of KSR years ago, but I haven't read those. Sure to be good though. I just discovered him fairly recently and I'm impressed. I like the speculative fiction/alternate history thing, like Neal Stephenson. This one should keep me busy for a while--what could be a better distraction than a near-future climate disaster hellscape? La la la, la la la. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2022 15:59:36 GMT -5
Reading To The Edges of The World by Edward J. Larson, focused on the expeditions to the North, South poles and the Himalayas in 1909.
I started it some months ago, put it aside because I couldn't get into it, and picked it up again recently. It's a good read.
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Post by Professor S. on Jun 18, 2022 17:02:09 GMT -5
It puts "bad day" into perspective, doesn't it? Nah. Just a little dust up. Way overblown. Ya gotta go with the flow.  |
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Post by Professor S. on Jun 18, 2022 17:04:36 GMT -5
I first read Lord of the Rings when I was a pre-teen. Now that I'm older and a pipe smoker, I really feel the loss and distress when the characters lose their pipes, have no matches/flame source, or run out of tobacco, and I more deeply understand the joyful reunion after the siege of Isengard.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jun 18, 2022 17:56:15 GMT -5
We're all trying to get distracted these days. Read a lot of KSR years ago, but I haven't read those. Sure to be good though. I just discovered him fairly recently and I'm impressed. I like the speculative fiction/alternate history thing, like Neal Stephenson. This one should keep me busy for a while--what could be a better distraction than a near-future climate disaster hellscape? La la la, la la la. Been outside today? |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2022 5:04:46 GMT -5
I first read Lord of the Rings when I was a pre-teen. Now that I'm older and a pipe smoker, I really feel the loss and distress when the characters lose their pipes, have no matches/flame source, or run out of tobacco, and I more deeply understand the joyful reunion after the siege of Isengard. Curiously, as where I went through The Hobbit fairly quickly and enjoyed it, it took me 4 attempts, over a period of 10 years, to manage to get into Lord of The Rings. 2 attempts in English, and 2 in French. Ironically, I succeeded with the French version rather than the original, but it took me months to finish them. I just wasn't getting into them. |
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Post by terrapinflyer on Jun 19, 2022 5:54:54 GMT -5
I just discovered him fairly recently and I'm impressed. I like the speculative fiction/alternate history thing, like Neal Stephenson. This one should keep me busy for a while--what could be a better distraction than a near-future climate disaster hellscape? La la la, la la la. Been outside today? Eh? It was beautiful here. Alas, weather =/= climate. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Jun 19, 2022 10:06:58 GMT -5
Eh? It was beautiful here. Alas, weather =/= climate. Gotcha. Envious. |
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Post by terrapinflyer on Jun 19, 2022 10:50:06 GMT -5
Eh? It was beautiful here. Alas, weather =/= climate. Gotcha. Envious. It was brutal last week, but I was able to cut the lawn this morning without passing out. It's an improvement. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Jun 19, 2022 15:36:43 GMT -5
It was brutal last week, but I was able to cut the lawn this morning without passing out. It's an improvement. I cut the acre today in 3 shifts on the lawn tractor. That isn't the bad part. It's picking up the limbs before mowing. No weedeating today! |
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Post by Ronv69 on Jun 19, 2022 20:39:32 GMT -5
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Post by terrapinflyer on Jun 23, 2022 10:36:28 GMT -5
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Post by urbino on Jun 23, 2022 18:34:07 GMT -5
Never feel sorry for a man who owns a plane spaceship. |
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Post by exbenedict on Jun 25, 2022 12:21:22 GMT -5
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Post by urbino on Jun 26, 2022 14:08:29 GMT -5
The Last American Aristocrat, a biography of Henry Adams by David S. Brown.
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Post by terrapinflyer on Jul 22, 2022 13:09:09 GMT -5
The Butchering Art, Lindsay Fitzharris, 2017. Joseph Lister. I'm just getting started, but I like the history of medicine.
I also started Boebert's book. She actually used the word "bootstraps" in the introduction, so I'm setting the bar even lower. I'll get through it, if only for the lulz. It's probably on par with the JBP hagiography I suffered through recently.
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Post by Zach on Aug 2, 2022 15:49:25 GMT -5
After having finished the William Gibson Sprawl Trilogy (Neuromancer, Count Zero, & Mona Lisa Overdrive), I'm just starting The Difference Engine by William Gibson & Bruce Sterling. It's an alternative history fiction of steampunk based in the mid 1800's.
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Post by sperrytops on Aug 3, 2022 10:53:06 GMT -5
Somehow I don't feel sorry for the richest man in the world. Despite the contributions he's made to the sunseting of fossil fuels. |
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Post by sperrytops on Aug 3, 2022 11:03:04 GMT -5
Recently enjoyed reading about the history of the French in Indochina and all the unfortunate follow ons to that. Looking for a new topic now and debating between the records of the Miskatonic University expeditions to Antarctica or a couple of books on the Civil War: Shelby Foote's The Civil War (massive work, don't know if I can get through it), or Memoirs of Ulysses S Grant.I'll just have to smoke a cigar when reading that one. One cigar after another.
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Post by trailboss on Aug 3, 2022 12:20:41 GMT -5
The Wayward Bus by John Steinbeck.
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Post by Gypo on Aug 3, 2022 22:10:06 GMT -5
Recently enjoyed reading about the history of the French in Indochina and all the unfortunate follow ons to that. Looking for a new topic now and debating between the records of the Miskatonic University expeditions to Antarctica or a couple of books on the Civil War: Shelby Foote's The Civil War (massive work, don't know if I can get through it), or Memoirs of Ulysses S Grant.I'll just have to smoke a cigar when reading that one. One cigar after another. I like your reading list. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Aug 4, 2022 13:27:01 GMT -5
Six Not So Easy Pieces by Richard Fineman.
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