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re: The OT Book Club & Literary Society, week of 5-27
Posted on 5/27/14 at 3:10 pm to Kafka
Posted on 5/27/14 at 3:10 pm to Kafka
I'm on book 6 of the outlander series by Diana gabaldon. It is a beautifully written series. Sci fy/historical fiction/romance? It's about a 1960s nurse who goes back in time to 1770s Scotland. All about the building up of the war. The books are long and WONDERFUL.
As a bonus, starz is turning it into a mini series this August.
Something for the ladies, and lots of blood and guts for the gentlemen.
Indians, treachery, medicine, war, travel, love...all kinda of stuff. The sci fi part is done so well that it's not completely far fetched.
Recommend!
As a bonus, starz is turning it into a mini series this August.
Something for the ladies, and lots of blood and guts for the gentlemen.
Indians, treachery, medicine, war, travel, love...all kinda of stuff. The sci fi part is done so well that it's not completely far fetched.
Recommend!
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Posted on 5/27/14 at 4:04 pm to NIH
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Is it just me or does he overly use OK and a-hole?
It's not just you. OK is capitalized and if you just glanced at a page you will usually see a half dozen OK's glaring at you. 
Posted on 5/27/14 at 5:51 pm to Kafka
If anyone enjoys reading short stories like I do. I beg you to read George Saunders' Tenth of December. The elegance and writing style of Saunders pours out of his stories, really great stuff.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 5:53 pm to Kafka
Posted on 5/27/14 at 5:56 pm to Kafka
For those interested in the Mormon religion, I highly recommend "Under the Banner of Heaven". It details the founding of the religion and their move across the plains to Utah. It also chronicles a murder that took place years ago. Quite an interesting read.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 5:58 pm to Kafka
So many books in the world.. What's the point if I can't read them all.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 6:00 pm to LobbyingLeprechaun
Good recommendation.
I'd also recommend, if any of you haven't completely given up on political inquiry, reading Chomsky's political essays. Even if you don't agree with him and/or hate him, the man has incredible articulation.
I happen to love the guys work, given his virtually equal scathing of both parties. Manufacturing Consent was also a good book on our privately controlled mass media.
I'd also recommend, if any of you haven't completely given up on political inquiry, reading Chomsky's political essays. Even if you don't agree with him and/or hate him, the man has incredible articulation.
I happen to love the guys work, given his virtually equal scathing of both parties. Manufacturing Consent was also a good book on our privately controlled mass media.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 6:04 pm to Kafka
To draw on a thread from the weekend, a horrific one, let's go ahead and get this out.
Post here if you have NOT read Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain.
Post here if you have NOT read Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 6:08 pm to goldenbadger08
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So many books in the world.. What's the point if I can't read them all.
Start with these:
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Trial by Franz Kafka
The Castle by Franz Kafka
Metamorphoses by Ovid
Othello by William Shakespeare
Aeneid by Virgil
Posted on 5/27/14 at 6:18 pm to LSUballs
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After a long hiatus due to a car wreck that nearly cost him his life, Greg Iles has got a new book out called Natchez Burning. I haven't read it yet, but I've been told that it is top notch. Thus ends my current contribution to this thread as all I have been reading lately are Jack Reacher books. But they are entertaining.
Greg spoke here about the book, so I went and heard him. He signed my book. Told him I was from Monroe, La and spent a lot of time over on Lake St John and Lake Bruin. He added that Concordia Parish is all in the book and Monroe will come into play at the end of the book.
This new book, which is 700 pages long is one of three news books in the Penn Cage or Natchez series. They will each come out a year apart.
I also found it interesting that Greg, like Penn has a young, good looking fiance'.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 6:35 pm to Kafka
I'm almost finished with John Sandford's new Lucas Davenport book "Field Of Prey". If you like Sandford, you'll like this one. It's not groundbreaking, but I'm enjoying it.
Has anybody read The Goldfinch?
Has anybody read The Goldfinch?
Posted on 5/27/14 at 6:42 pm to witty alias
Just finished Wine and War about French wines and the German occupation during WWII. Very nice read.
In the middle of Operation Paperclip about the German Scientists who came to America after the war.
In the middle of The First Phone Call from Heaven, Mitch Albom.
In the middle of crazy Rich Asians, Kevin Kwan.
Listening to Let's Explore Diabetes, David Sedaris.
Listening tithe Reason for God, Timothy Keller.
I bounce around a lot.
In the middle of Operation Paperclip about the German Scientists who came to America after the war.
In the middle of The First Phone Call from Heaven, Mitch Albom.
In the middle of crazy Rich Asians, Kevin Kwan.
Listening to Let's Explore Diabetes, David Sedaris.
Listening tithe Reason for God, Timothy Keller.
I bounce around a lot.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 6:44 pm to Martini
I've always enjoyed the perspective of people that can carry on with several titles concurrently. I cannot. I wish I could.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 6:52 pm to The Third Leg
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I've always enjoyed the perspective of people that can carry on with several titles concurrently. I cannot. I wish I could.
Agreed. If I dislike a book and don't care to finish it I won't, but I don't read multiple books I am planning on finishing at the same time.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 6:57 pm to LobbyingLeprechaun
I have always read multiple at once. It just depends on my mood as to which one I'll pick up. I keep at least a couple in my vehicles and read whenever I have to sit waiting on someone or whatever.
If I cut my time reading this board I'd get finished with some of them.
If I cut my time reading this board I'd get finished with some of them.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 7:02 pm to Martini
I've tried it, I cannot get the hang of it. If I stop a book and start another, I'll rarely ever come back to it.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 7:26 pm to Kafka
Anything written by Herman Wouk is worth the time. My favorite is the Caine Mutiny. The symbolism is anything but subtle.
His Don't Stop the Carnival was an inspiration to Jimmy Buffett.
His Don't Stop the Carnival was an inspiration to Jimmy Buffett.
Posted on 5/27/14 at 8:09 pm to TigerPanzer
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Gravity's Rainbow.
Wow, that's the only book that's kicked my arse. Four tries and I've given up each time. And I liked Against the Day, Mason and Dixon, and anything by David Foster Wallace. I guess I'll have to try again.
Now is a good time to mention James Webb. His Fields of Fire is the best Vietnam book I've ever read and he was in the thick of it. Currently I'm reading his Emperor's General which is about MacArthur and is excellent so far. He's simply an outstanding author as well as a decorated combat veteran, Secretary of the Navy, and US Senator from Virginia. And given the rest it is pretty surprising that he really is a damn good author.
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