Books I Have Read
Jan 7, 2021 06:12:09 #
Thanks for looking in. Soft orchestral music a glass of scotch and a nice cigar and I’m
set. I am only hearing the whispers About the news from others. I am certain that our country is a laughing stock since recent events. At one point I wanted to move to the United Kingdom. I could get used to living and working there. I’m not so sure about driving on the left side of the road.
set. I am only hearing the whispers About the news from others. I am certain that our country is a laughing stock since recent events. At one point I wanted to move to the United Kingdom. I could get used to living and working there. I’m not so sure about driving on the left side of the road.
Jan 7, 2021 06:16:42 #
Jan 7, 2021 06:33:24 #
No! Not Really. I have been a registered pharmacist for 30 years. I know that I can serve the U.K. to my full ability. I will need to learn the laws and the pharmacopeia. Not a big deal for my wife and I. If I could I have a few US passports for sale. $1.00 each — I’m kidding!!
Jan 7, 2021 06:47:58 #
One of my favorite books is "The People's History of The United States of America" by Howard Zinn.
Reading this makes one wonder why this isn't taught in school.
--Bob
Reading this makes one wonder why this isn't taught in school.
--Bob
Scruples wrote:
Dear Fellow Hoggers, Last year was tough on us all... (show quote)
Jan 7, 2021 07:58:56 #
Our local library has been open and we have taking out piles of great books.
Try author Dewey Lambdin for Napoleonic sea tales or Bernard Cornwells series.
I have avoiding ALL network news for months.
Try author Dewey Lambdin for Napoleonic sea tales or Bernard Cornwells series.
I have avoiding ALL network news for months.
Jan 7, 2021 08:17:01 #
bittermelon wrote:
I am going back to some of the great classics which I have not read before. Just finished Moby Dick. Now reading Crazy Horse and Custer. I also tried In Cold Blood, but could not get past the first 3rd. I also read Eat Joy, which is a community read from our library.
Wow! You got through "Moby Dick?" Congratulations--not many English majors do the unless they have to.
Jan 7, 2021 08:47:07 #
John, one summer, I dedicated myself to reading "Moby Dick". Just reading it gives one the experience of a long ocean travel on a sailing ship.
Not having a TV provides a lot of incentive to read. Either that or having a love of reading, photography, and music led to getting rid of the TV.
--Bob
Not having a TV provides a lot of incentive to read. Either that or having a love of reading, photography, and music led to getting rid of the TV.
--Bob
jaymatt wrote:
Wow! You got through "Moby Dick?" Congratulations--not many English majors do the unless they have to.
Jan 7, 2021 09:12:45 #
"Call me Ishmael"
An terribly written written book...
Gregory Peck saved Melville's reputation.
Omoo is worse...
An terribly written written book...
Gregory Peck saved Melville's reputation.
Omoo is worse...
Jan 7, 2021 09:52:19 #
Thank you for sharing your selections! When I was a kid, my mom got me interested in books. If I did something laudable, she'd take me to the library as my reward. I was allowed to borrow as many books as I could carry. Here it is, 55+ years later, and I still love reading. Thanks 
Jan 7, 2021 09:58:48 #
Reality sucks, so I read fiction. I hate history because in spite of what I was taught in school, we never learn from it.
I prefer mysteries and if I can find a series with the same main characters it is a plus. I don't have to keep remembering new names.
Every morning with my second cup of coffee I go down the list of Amazon's top, free, mystery, suspense, thriller titles. I download any I don't own. Amazon keeps track. When I choose a book to read I search my tablet for books by the same author. Many of the free books today are selling for $.99 to $4.99 tomorrow, and vice versa. I have been doing this for many years and have accumulated close to 9,000 on a Kindle. Only once did I start a book and delete because it just wasn't well written. I emailed one author to point out a flaw in the story line. I wound up proof reading his next three books ... just for fun.
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I prefer mysteries and if I can find a series with the same main characters it is a plus. I don't have to keep remembering new names.
Every morning with my second cup of coffee I go down the list of Amazon's top, free, mystery, suspense, thriller titles. I download any I don't own. Amazon keeps track. When I choose a book to read I search my tablet for books by the same author. Many of the free books today are selling for $.99 to $4.99 tomorrow, and vice versa. I have been doing this for many years and have accumulated close to 9,000 on a Kindle. Only once did I start a book and delete because it just wasn't well written. I emailed one author to point out a flaw in the story line. I wound up proof reading his next three books ... just for fun.
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Jan 7, 2021 09:59:43 #
Scruples wrote:
Dear Fellow Hoggers, Last year was tough on us all... (show quote)
If you like historical novels, let me highly recommend any of Erik Larson’s books (Devil in the White City, in the Garden of Beasts, isaac’s storm, etc).
Also: All the Light we Cannot See and In the Heart of the Sea - both first rate.
I’m currently rereading my favorite Hemingway books - he’s written many dozens.
Jan 7, 2021 10:42:47 #
badapple
Loc: Twin Lake, Michigan
Canonuser wrote:
What a great reading list. Accompany that with some nice background music and you’ve got it made.
I do have to say though that in the UK, Mr Trumps behaviour yesterday significantly altered our news headlines for a while.
I do have to say though that in the UK, Mr Trumps behaviour yesterday significantly altered our news headlines for a while.
If you can read and “really” listen to music at the same time you are not reading.
Jan 7, 2021 11:02:59 #
I recently finished The Last Assassin by Peter Stothard - the hunting down of the conspirators who killed Julius Caesar. Between them, Mark Anthony and Octavian got them all and then, of course, Octavian offed Mark Anthony along with Cleopatra (actually, they committed suicide but better than being tortured to death by Octavian).
I’m also trying to finish reading Ulysses by James Joyce - started it in about 1954 but am still only a fraction of the way to the famous 1-sentence final chapter.
I’m also trying to finish reading Ulysses by James Joyce - started it in about 1954 but am still only a fraction of the way to the famous 1-sentence final chapter.
Jan 7, 2021 11:23:23 #
cdayton wrote:
I recently finished The Last Assassin by Peter Stothard - the hunting down of the conspirators who killed Julius Caesar. Between them, Mark Anthony and Octavian got them all and then, of course, Octavian offed Mark Anthony along with Cleopatra (actually, they committed suicide but better than being tortured to death by Octavian).
I’m also trying to finish reading Ulysses by James Joyce - started it in about 1954 but am still only a fraction of the way to the famous 1-sentence final chapter.
I’m also trying to finish reading Ulysses by James Joyce - started it in about 1954 but am still only a fraction of the way to the famous 1-sentence final chapter.
Ulysses IS hard to read. If you make it to the end, try Finnegans Wake by Joyce.
Jan 7, 2021 14:15:47 #
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