Book recommendations
06-14-2023, 04:24 PM
#341
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"The Complete Book of Nonsense" - Edward Lear. First edition 1846. (Still in print, and illustrated)
My now go-to guide for swears. If you enjoy stupid limericks (Is there any other kind? These are non dirty though) with words like "bollocks", "malarkey", "runcible", etc., this is the book for you. And your progeny.
The English are really good at this.
My now go-to guide for swears. If you enjoy stupid limericks (Is there any other kind? These are non dirty though) with words like "bollocks", "malarkey", "runcible", etc., this is the book for you. And your progeny.
The English are really good at this.
06-14-2023, 05:22 PM
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"The Complete Book of Nonsense" - Edward Lear. First edition 1846. (Still in print, and illustrated)
My now go-to guide for swears. If you enjoy stupid limericks (Is there any other kind? These are non dirty though) with words like "bollocks", "malarkey", "runcible", etc., this is the book for you. And your progeny.
The English are really good at this.
My now go-to guide for swears. If you enjoy stupid limericks (Is there any other kind? These are non dirty though) with words like "bollocks", "malarkey", "runcible", etc., this is the book for you. And your progeny.
The English are really good at this.
06-23-2023, 06:17 PM
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I’m trying to read all the books I should’ve read in high school. You know, the classics.
Just finished The Count Of Monte Cristo.
Dang that is a good book and easy to read. Not childish at all. (Didn’t read the abridged version).
I also did All Quiet on the Western Front over Memorial Day. Quick read but powerful.
Just finished The Count Of Monte Cristo.
Dang that is a good book and easy to read. Not childish at all. (Didn’t read the abridged version).
I also did All Quiet on the Western Front over Memorial Day. Quick read but powerful.
06-24-2023, 05:35 AM
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Two more great books worth a gander because you used the Cliff Notes in high school (didn't we all?):
Iliad
and
Odyssey
By Homer (obviously).
But this is IMPORTANT: Read the translation by Stanley Lombardo.
Extremely engaging and approachable. Used copies for cheap on ebay.
Iliad
and
Odyssey
By Homer (obviously).
But this is IMPORTANT: Read the translation by Stanley Lombardo.
Extremely engaging and approachable. Used copies for cheap on ebay.
08-20-2023, 10:50 AM
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I haven't recommended the following book, until now, due to it being political and involving current USA politics.
My idea is this, (and hopefully the mods will agree), to also post this book on a new thread in Hangar Talk where discourse has more leeway.
This thread has value, and it would be a shame for it to be closed due to a book rec that might bring out strong opinions, be they pro or con.
Hence, my thought being, if someone wishes to comment beyond "yeah, good book" or 'it sucks, don't bother" they can go to hangar talk and expound away.
"How Democracies Die" by Stephen Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
Copyright 2018
My idea is this, (and hopefully the mods will agree), to also post this book on a new thread in Hangar Talk where discourse has more leeway.
This thread has value, and it would be a shame for it to be closed due to a book rec that might bring out strong opinions, be they pro or con.
Hence, my thought being, if someone wishes to comment beyond "yeah, good book" or 'it sucks, don't bother" they can go to hangar talk and expound away.
"How Democracies Die" by Stephen Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
Copyright 2018
09-06-2023, 05:35 PM
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What books are the pseudo-literati reading now?
Currently reading “ The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters” by Frances Stonor Saunders. It’ll blow your mind. Poof. It really does read like a John Carre novel.
Contemplating purchasing either a bloc of either Patrick O’Brian’s sea novel books (think “Master and Commander”) or the Bernard Cornwall “Sharpe’s Rifles” series from eBay for light reading.
(Concurrently reading eBay bloc purchase of the “Flashman” series by George MacDonald Fraser. “Problematic” with a capital “P.” Very fun though, although I “tut tut” at the numerous inappropriate sections [many] when necessary. THIS IS PULP FICTION, not highbrow literature.)
Currently reading “ The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters” by Frances Stonor Saunders. It’ll blow your mind. Poof. It really does read like a John Carre novel.
Contemplating purchasing either a bloc of either Patrick O’Brian’s sea novel books (think “Master and Commander”) or the Bernard Cornwall “Sharpe’s Rifles” series from eBay for light reading.
(Concurrently reading eBay bloc purchase of the “Flashman” series by George MacDonald Fraser. “Problematic” with a capital “P.” Very fun though, although I “tut tut” at the numerous inappropriate sections [many] when necessary. THIS IS PULP FICTION, not highbrow literature.)
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09-07-2023, 05:58 AM
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09-14-2023, 05:41 AM
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What books are the pseudo-literati reading now?
Currently reading “ The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters” by Frances Stonor Saunders. It’ll blow your mind. Poof. It really does read like a John Carre novel.
Contemplating purchasing either a bloc of either Patrick O’Brian’s sea novel books (think “Master and Commander”) or the Bernard Cornwall “Sharpe’s Rifles” series from eBay for light reading.
(Concurrently reading eBay bloc purchase of the “Flashman” series by George MacDonald Fraser. “Problematic” with a capital “P.” Very fun though, although I “tut tut” at the numerous inappropriate sections [many] when necessary. THIS IS PULP FICTION, not highbrow literature.)
Currently reading “ The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters” by Frances Stonor Saunders. It’ll blow your mind. Poof. It really does read like a John Carre novel.
Contemplating purchasing either a bloc of either Patrick O’Brian’s sea novel books (think “Master and Commander”) or the Bernard Cornwall “Sharpe’s Rifles” series from eBay for light reading.
(Concurrently reading eBay bloc purchase of the “Flashman” series by George MacDonald Fraser. “Problematic” with a capital “P.” Very fun though, although I “tut tut” at the numerous inappropriate sections [many] when necessary. THIS IS PULP FICTION, not highbrow literature.)
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