Forum MVP bs69 Posted January 21, 2021 Forum MVP Report Share Posted January 21, 2021 Reading "The evening and the morning" by Ken Follet. Prequel to"Pillars if the earth". Pretty good so far. It has dawned on me while reading that books were traded among monasteries exactly like we used to trade tapes. They'd acquire something and then make copies to trade for something else they didn't have. Sound familiar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP chuckvegas Posted January 21, 2021 Forum MVP Report Share Posted January 21, 2021 Great analogy! And wild and woolly Deng’s Ferry struck me as a bit like an early Shakedown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP bs69 Posted March 8, 2021 Forum MVP Report Share Posted March 8, 2021 On 1/20/2021 at 8:21 PM, bs69 said: Reading "The evening and the morning" by Ken Follet. Prequel to"Pillars if the earth". Pretty good so far. It has dawned on me while reading that books were traded among monasteries exactly like we used to trade tapes. They'd acquire something and then make copies to trade for something else they didn't have. Sound familiar? So, after reading "evening and the morning" I went ahead and read the other 3 after. Great books. Now moving on to Trinity by Leon Uris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP Ammagamalin Crew Posted March 15, 2021 Forum MVP Report Share Posted March 15, 2021 Soul Mining by Daniel Lanois (2010) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP Mango Posted March 21, 2021 Forum MVP Report Share Posted March 21, 2021 Tapping into my inner child.... by reading Harry Potter!! On book 4 now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP Supplicated Velvet Thunder Posted March 22, 2021 Forum MVP Report Share Posted March 22, 2021 On 9/24/2020 at 4:55 PM, franknkeene said: Yet another John Irving book from me. The Last Night in Twisted River. First 50 pages haven't grabbed me yet like all other Irving books. I typically give books 100 pages to grab me, but since it is Irving I will give it 200. A dear friend from new Hampshire loaned him to me from his collection for my southern winters the last two years. I did the elephant one first then cider house cause I'd seen the movie and this year I grabbed the hotel new Hampshire one. He is so on his own fucking trip lol. I can hardly recommend them to most folks in my normal book circles but for the absurdist style of incredibly bourgeois specifications, descriptions, and situations, he's tits!!!!!! Love it! I'll look up the twisted river one cause I know he ain't got it. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP Supplicated Velvet Thunder Posted March 22, 2021 Forum MVP Report Share Posted March 22, 2021 Um... Hey now what a fun topic to come home to in these strange ass days between! I just got my first internet device in over a year (ipad went swimming in a camping chair) specifically cause I was sick of needing light to read books at our property (keeping a device charged can run off solar but batteries are dumb and generators are expensive to run lol) hehe. So, I miss the shit out of y'all and can't wait til shows are liberated but I'm glad to have y'all, here. So.... Anyone done Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld series? High fantasy is lovely and all, and romance-dragon-magic fantasy is that crack out shit, but Discworld is one of the most comprehensive author created alter worlds I've ever been led into!!! From the punny British humor to the culturally/historically gut busting cheek aching satirical paradigms, oh my fucking lordy my!!!!! Ya like epic shit? (Since you're here I assume that's a hearty "duh") Then enjoy! But watch out, if ya read his books in chronological order (highly recommended) you gonna ball your eyes out by the end cause he left us after suffering from early onset alzheimer's and being a huge proponent of assisted suicide and that man's brain was straight laid out in plain English for all of us in his books and our universe is better for it. I actually still haven't read to the end ("coincidentally" my ipad died last year when I had finally made it to the last disc world book *ominous music from your fave space in background*) but I dunno, a dear lil birdie from these parts once told me to listen to the GD shows in reverse order so it gets happier instead of heartbreaking and that might work here, too. I'm currently reading Robert heinlein's lost legacy and started with stranger in a strange land (I mean, duh) and i'm glad I read enough quantum+ non-fiction science shit for so long bc I can finally enjoy sci Fi in my old age bwahahahaha. I grok it now. Fuck, I miss you folks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP chuckvegas Posted March 22, 2021 Forum MVP Report Share Posted March 22, 2021 Glad you’re back on line! Been too long and sometimes it feels like our numbers are dwindling too fast. SF, huh? Discworld was a Dadaist joy, and for something a tad more hard SF (but still pretty humanist) I recommend Pratchett and Stephen Baxter’s The Long Earth series. Pratchett brings the fun and Baxter brings the science. The blend works really well. Personally, FWIW, I’m taking a break from SF and modern military history and getting back to my college major roots (things have been greatly updated since then). After rereading Hild I am really looking forward to Menewood. Seventh century Mercia and Northumbria, anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum MVP Supplicated Velvet Thunder Posted March 22, 2021 Forum MVP Report Share Posted March 22, 2021 5 minutes ago, chuckvegas said: Glad you’re back on line! Been too long and sometimes it feels like our numbers are dwindling too fast. SF, huh? Discworld was a Dadaist joy, and for something a tad more hard SF (but still pretty humanist) I recommend Pratchett and Stephen Baxter’s The Long Earth series. Pratchett brings the fun and Baxter brings the science. The blend works really well. Personally, FWIW, I’m taking a break from SF and modern military history and getting back to my college major roots (things have been greatly updated since then). After rereading Hild I am really looking forward to Menewood. Seventh century Mercia and Northumbria, anyone? Oh, dad, I love you so much! I had a feeling you would be the one that took my Discworld cue. Poke poke. Wait, like super modern military history after the bigguns or including before? World or specific to American involvement? Best book of all time anyone? Mine is hands down The Glass Bead Game by hermann hesse. It's magister ludi if u get the British edition. If you play or like music and can handle some really foreign feeling confusing shit that eventually brings you around to the best description of reality thru fiction written by the hands of man then do it. Y'all that knew Castalia in the day when it was here on earth know what I'm jiving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
franknkeene Posted March 24, 2021 Report Share Posted March 24, 2021 On 3/21/2021 at 9:28 PM, Supplicated Velvet Thunder said: A dear friend from new Hampshire loaned him to me from his collection for my southern winters the last two years. I did the elephant one first then cider house cause I'd seen the movie and this year I grabbed the hotel new Hampshire one. He is so on his own fucking trip lol. I can hardly recommend them to most folks in my normal book circles but for the absurdist style of incredibly bourgeois specifications, descriptions, and situations, he's tits!!!!!! Love it! I'll look up the twisted river one cause I know he ain't got it. Thanks. SVT, What we love and don't like is all subjective. Licorice comes to mind. Of the zillions of books I read over the decades, A Prayer for Owen Meaney is the #1 best. You may have also seen the movie The World According the Garp. I thought the movie was pretty good, but the book a zillion times better. Happy reading! Frank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mojo Hand Posted March 24, 2021 Report Share Posted March 24, 2021 On 3/21/2021 at 11:11 PM, Supplicated Velvet Thunder said: Best book of all time anyone? my personal favorite (it's a tie)….. Another Roadside Attraction....Tom Robbins Fever Pitch..…..Nick Hornby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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