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08-29-2023, 10:53 AM
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Drowning: The Rescue Of Flight 1421 by TJ Newman (8.5/10)
This is a fictional account of an airplane that almost immediately has major troubles after leaving Honolulu airport. The plane loses its primary and both redundant back-up hydraulic systems so the pilots are helpless. The plane stays afloat for a while but then sinks luckily landing on an underwater volcano 200' below.
It's a good story written by a woman who I think went a little overboard (no pun) in making too many women as heroes of the story:
Admiral on the Navy vessel that help save the plane passengers: a woman
Owner AND OPERATOR of the dive, rescue, and underwater welding company that help save the passengers: a woman
Plane's Pilot: A man but dies immediately and replaced by, you guessed it, a woman
Great story, great writing, Great suspenseful ending!
This is a fictional account of an airplane that almost immediately has major troubles after leaving Honolulu airport. The plane loses its primary and both redundant back-up hydraulic systems so the pilots are helpless. The plane stays afloat for a while but then sinks luckily landing on an underwater volcano 200' below.
It's a good story written by a woman who I think went a little overboard (no pun) in making too many women as heroes of the story:
Admiral on the Navy vessel that help save the plane passengers: a woman
Owner AND OPERATOR of the dive, rescue, and underwater welding company that help save the passengers: a woman
Plane's Pilot: A man but dies immediately and replaced by, you guessed it, a woman
Great story, great writing, Great suspenseful ending!
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08-29-2023, 06:33 PM
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Finished “Who Killed Tom Thomson” by John Little. This story is fascinating and having detectives weigh in at the end was a smart choice. Definitely seems like he was murdered though the details are likely lost to history at this point.
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1 The Second Day at Gettysburg by David Schultz and Scott Mingus Sr.
2. The Whisper on the Wind by Adam Schoalts
3. Cro-Magnon:How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans” by Brian ***an
4 Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors” by Nicholas Wade
5 Genghis: Birth of an Empire by Conn Iggulden
6 Genghis:Lords of the Bow by Conn Iggulden
7 Whatever You Do, Don't Run by Peter Allison
8 My Life with Ndoto: Exploring Africa in a Forty-Year-Old Land Rover by Teresa O'Kane
9 Genghis: Bones of the Hills by Conn Iggulden
10 Khan: Empire of Silver by Conn Iggulden
11 Safari Jema by Teresa O'Kane
12 Walking the Himalayas by Levison Wood
13 The Overlanders: An African Journey by Michael Leytonstone
14 Our Italian Journey: Living our dream in Italy for one year by Ilene and Gary Modica
15 When Your Heart Finds its Home: The Journey Continues by Ilene and Gary Modica
16 Conqueror by Conn Iggulden
17 Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam by Stephen Sears.
18 An Arabian Journey: One Man’s Quest Through The Heart of the Middle East by Levison Wood
19 A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
20 An Italian Journey: A Harvest of Revelations in the Olive Groves of Tuscany by James Earnest Shaw
21 Canoeing with the Cree by Eric Sevareid
22 DiCarlo: Buffalo's First Family of Crime Vol 1
23 DiCarlo: Buffalo's First Family of Crime Vol 2
24 American Made: Who Killed Barry Seal by Shaun Attwood
25 Finding Myself in Puglia by Laine Brown
26 Through a Howling Wilderness: Benedict Arnold's March to Quebec by Thomas Desjardin
27 Black Flag of the North: Bartholomew Roberts, King of the Atlantic Pirates by Victor Suthren
28 Waterloo by Bernard Cornwell
29 Blood Covenant by Michael Franzese
30 Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone by Martin Dugard
31 Once Around Algonquin by Kevin Callan
32 Who Killed Tom Thomson by John Little
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1 The Second Day at Gettysburg by David Schultz and Scott Mingus Sr.
2. The Whisper on the Wind by Adam Schoalts
3. Cro-Magnon:How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans” by Brian ***an
4 Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors” by Nicholas Wade
5 Genghis: Birth of an Empire by Conn Iggulden
6 Genghis:Lords of the Bow by Conn Iggulden
7 Whatever You Do, Don't Run by Peter Allison
8 My Life with Ndoto: Exploring Africa in a Forty-Year-Old Land Rover by Teresa O'Kane
9 Genghis: Bones of the Hills by Conn Iggulden
10 Khan: Empire of Silver by Conn Iggulden
11 Safari Jema by Teresa O'Kane
12 Walking the Himalayas by Levison Wood
13 The Overlanders: An African Journey by Michael Leytonstone
14 Our Italian Journey: Living our dream in Italy for one year by Ilene and Gary Modica
15 When Your Heart Finds its Home: The Journey Continues by Ilene and Gary Modica
16 Conqueror by Conn Iggulden
17 Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam by Stephen Sears.
18 An Arabian Journey: One Man’s Quest Through The Heart of the Middle East by Levison Wood
19 A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
20 An Italian Journey: A Harvest of Revelations in the Olive Groves of Tuscany by James Earnest Shaw
21 Canoeing with the Cree by Eric Sevareid
22 DiCarlo: Buffalo's First Family of Crime Vol 1
23 DiCarlo: Buffalo's First Family of Crime Vol 2
24 American Made: Who Killed Barry Seal by Shaun Attwood
25 Finding Myself in Puglia by Laine Brown
26 Through a Howling Wilderness: Benedict Arnold's March to Quebec by Thomas Desjardin
27 Black Flag of the North: Bartholomew Roberts, King of the Atlantic Pirates by Victor Suthren
28 Waterloo by Bernard Cornwell
29 Blood Covenant by Michael Franzese
30 Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone by Martin Dugard
31 Once Around Algonquin by Kevin Callan
32 Who Killed Tom Thomson by John Little
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08-30-2023, 01:34 PM
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I just started S.A. Cosby's All The Sinners Bleed, and after just three chapters, it's GREAT!!! Anxious to see what awaits.
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09-02-2023, 06:14 AM
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Since last update i've read:
Voltaire - The Calas affair/treatise on toleration - 4.5/5 - This was honestly excellent and it's aged incredibly well. It uses the case of John calas, a protestant wrongly convicted of his sons murder due to religious persecution by catholics. He goes through the history of the Jews, Greeks, Romans and their takes on toleration, and talks about many of the atrocities omitted by Catholics in the name of religion, paying special attention to the St Bartholemews day massacre.
Tom Holland - Rubicon - 3.5/5 - This was pretty decent, but it was still quite a pop history. It outlines the fall of the Roman republic, starting around the time of the donation of Pergamon to Rome, the Grachi, and ends around the battle of actium.
Curtius Rufus - The History of Alexander - 4.5/5 - This was the last history of Alexander from Antiquity i still hadn't read, and it was really good. It doesn't quite usurp Arrian as the best alexander history imo, but it gives a roman perspective, and provides some little details that the other histories seem to lack, especially regarding Antipaters war in Europe vs Agis III of Sparta.
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein (1818 text) - 5/5 - I hadn't read the original text until now, only later editions, and wow what a book. Nothing like the hollywood Frankenstein, but it was close to a masterpiece, it has a lot of dialogue which some people may not like, but i think it serves it's purpose extremely well. This is probably now one of my favourite fiction books up there with Kafka - the trial.
Tom Holland - Persian Fire - 4/5 - Another somewhat 'pop' history, but i thought this was better than Rubicon. Mostly goes through the history of the Greco-Persian war, but also takes some time in the first half to explore the formation of Athens, Sparta and the Persian empire a couple of hundred years before the conflict exploring such areas as the Dorian invasion of the Pelloponnese, and the Persians roots as an Aryan tribe from the Zagros mountains.
Currently Reading:
Sigmund Freud - Civilisation & its discontents
Barry S Strauss - The War that made the Roman empire: Anthony, Cleopatra and Octavian at Actium
List as it stands:
Spoiler!
1. Voltaire - Candide
2. Carl Jung - Synchronicity
3. Thucydides - History of the Peloponnesian war
4. Stephen fry - Heroes
5. Albert Camus - The Fall
6. Euripides - Medea, Hecabe, Electra & Heracles
7. Daniel Dennett - Bacteria to bach and back
8. Xenophon - memorabilia
9. Richard Dawkins - The Extended Phenotype
10. Richard Dawkins - The Blind Watchmaker
11. Neil Gaiman - Norse Mythology
12. Xenophon - Hellenica
13. Dostoevsky - notes from underground
14. Plato - Phaedrus
15. Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus
16. Franz Kafka - the trial
17. Sean Carroll - The big picture
18. Plutarch - Greek lives
19. Plato - Symposium
20. Leibniz - Discourse on Metaphysics & Mondaology
21. Baltasar Gracian - Pocket Oracle & The Art of Prudence
22. Carlo Rovelli - Anaximander and the birth of science
23. Cicero - On Obligation
24. Plato - Timaeus & Critias
25. Carlo Rovelli - Helgoland
26. Plato - Meno, Lyches, Laches & Charmides
27. Nietszche - The birth of tragedy
28. Einhard & Notker the stammerer - 2 lives of Charlemagne
29. Anthony Everitt - Cicero
30. Marx & Engels - The communist Manifesto
31. Dostoevsky - The Double
32. Diodorus of Sicily - Books 16-20
33. Dividing the spoils - Robin Waterfield
34. Adrian Goldsworthy - Phillip & Alexander - Kings & Conquerers
35. Richard Dawkins - River out of eden
36. Nietzsche - Thus spoke Zarathustra
37. James S Romm - Ghost on the throne
38. Will Durant - The greatest minds and ideas of all time
39. James S Romm - Demetrius sacker of cities
40. Myke Cole - Legion verses Phalanx
41. Plutarch - Hellenstic Lives
42. Govert Schilling - Ripples in spacetime
43. Aristophanes - The Birds, Knights, Assembleywomen, Peace, Wealth
44. Ron Cowen - Gravitys century
45. Jeff Champion - Antigonus the one eyed
46. Daniel W Graham - Ancient philosophy (The Fundamentals)
47. James Romm - The Sacred band
48. Aristophanes - The Wasps, The poet & the woman, the frogs
49. Stephen Jay Gould - Questioning The Millenium
50. Richard Dawkins - Flights of fancy
51. David hume - Dialogues & Natural history of religion
52. Cicero - The Nature of the Gods
53. Anthony Gottleib - The Dream of Enlightenment
54. Franz Kafka - The Castle
55. Norman Cantor - Alexander
56. Nigel Warburton - A little history of philosophy
57. Jeff Champion - Pyrrhus Of Epirus
58. Carlo Rovelli - Seven brief lessons on physics
59. Homer - The Oddeysey
60. Leo Tolstoy - The death of Ivan Illyich
61. Donald Kagan - The Peloponesian war: Athens and sparta in savage conflict
62. Aristotle - The Athenian Constitution
63. Anthony Gottieb - The Dream of Reason
64. Plutarch - The rise and fall of Athens
65. Paul Cartledge - Thebes: The forgotten city of Ancient Greece
66. Thomas De Quincy - Confessions of an English Opium eater & other works
67. William Tucker - Chandras Cosmos
68. Aristophanes - Lysistrata, The Clouds, The Acharnians
69. Voltaire - The Calas affair/treatise on toleration
70. Tom Holland - Rubicon
71. Curtius Rufus - The History of Alexander
72. Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
73. Tom Holland - Persian Fire
74. Sigmund Freud - Civilisation & its discontents (in progress)
75. Barry S Strauss - The War that made the Roman empire: Anthony, Cleopatra and Octavian at Actium (in progress)
Voltaire - The Calas affair/treatise on toleration - 4.5/5 - This was honestly excellent and it's aged incredibly well. It uses the case of John calas, a protestant wrongly convicted of his sons murder due to religious persecution by catholics. He goes through the history of the Jews, Greeks, Romans and their takes on toleration, and talks about many of the atrocities omitted by Catholics in the name of religion, paying special attention to the St Bartholemews day massacre.
Tom Holland - Rubicon - 3.5/5 - This was pretty decent, but it was still quite a pop history. It outlines the fall of the Roman republic, starting around the time of the donation of Pergamon to Rome, the Grachi, and ends around the battle of actium.
Curtius Rufus - The History of Alexander - 4.5/5 - This was the last history of Alexander from Antiquity i still hadn't read, and it was really good. It doesn't quite usurp Arrian as the best alexander history imo, but it gives a roman perspective, and provides some little details that the other histories seem to lack, especially regarding Antipaters war in Europe vs Agis III of Sparta.
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein (1818 text) - 5/5 - I hadn't read the original text until now, only later editions, and wow what a book. Nothing like the hollywood Frankenstein, but it was close to a masterpiece, it has a lot of dialogue which some people may not like, but i think it serves it's purpose extremely well. This is probably now one of my favourite fiction books up there with Kafka - the trial.
Tom Holland - Persian Fire - 4/5 - Another somewhat 'pop' history, but i thought this was better than Rubicon. Mostly goes through the history of the Greco-Persian war, but also takes some time in the first half to explore the formation of Athens, Sparta and the Persian empire a couple of hundred years before the conflict exploring such areas as the Dorian invasion of the Pelloponnese, and the Persians roots as an Aryan tribe from the Zagros mountains.
Currently Reading:
Sigmund Freud - Civilisation & its discontents
Barry S Strauss - The War that made the Roman empire: Anthony, Cleopatra and Octavian at Actium
List as it stands:
Spoiler!
1. Voltaire - Candide
2. Carl Jung - Synchronicity
3. Thucydides - History of the Peloponnesian war
4. Stephen fry - Heroes
5. Albert Camus - The Fall
6. Euripides - Medea, Hecabe, Electra & Heracles
7. Daniel Dennett - Bacteria to bach and back
8. Xenophon - memorabilia
9. Richard Dawkins - The Extended Phenotype
10. Richard Dawkins - The Blind Watchmaker
11. Neil Gaiman - Norse Mythology
12. Xenophon - Hellenica
13. Dostoevsky - notes from underground
14. Plato - Phaedrus
15. Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus
16. Franz Kafka - the trial
17. Sean Carroll - The big picture
18. Plutarch - Greek lives
19. Plato - Symposium
20. Leibniz - Discourse on Metaphysics & Mondaology
21. Baltasar Gracian - Pocket Oracle & The Art of Prudence
22. Carlo Rovelli - Anaximander and the birth of science
23. Cicero - On Obligation
24. Plato - Timaeus & Critias
25. Carlo Rovelli - Helgoland
26. Plato - Meno, Lyches, Laches & Charmides
27. Nietszche - The birth of tragedy
28. Einhard & Notker the stammerer - 2 lives of Charlemagne
29. Anthony Everitt - Cicero
30. Marx & Engels - The communist Manifesto
31. Dostoevsky - The Double
32. Diodorus of Sicily - Books 16-20
33. Dividing the spoils - Robin Waterfield
34. Adrian Goldsworthy - Phillip & Alexander - Kings & Conquerers
35. Richard Dawkins - River out of eden
36. Nietzsche - Thus spoke Zarathustra
37. James S Romm - Ghost on the throne
38. Will Durant - The greatest minds and ideas of all time
39. James S Romm - Demetrius sacker of cities
40. Myke Cole - Legion verses Phalanx
41. Plutarch - Hellenstic Lives
42. Govert Schilling - Ripples in spacetime
43. Aristophanes - The Birds, Knights, Assembleywomen, Peace, Wealth
44. Ron Cowen - Gravitys century
45. Jeff Champion - Antigonus the one eyed
46. Daniel W Graham - Ancient philosophy (The Fundamentals)
47. James Romm - The Sacred band
48. Aristophanes - The Wasps, The poet & the woman, the frogs
49. Stephen Jay Gould - Questioning The Millenium
50. Richard Dawkins - Flights of fancy
51. David hume - Dialogues & Natural history of religion
52. Cicero - The Nature of the Gods
53. Anthony Gottleib - The Dream of Enlightenment
54. Franz Kafka - The Castle
55. Norman Cantor - Alexander
56. Nigel Warburton - A little history of philosophy
57. Jeff Champion - Pyrrhus Of Epirus
58. Carlo Rovelli - Seven brief lessons on physics
59. Homer - The Oddeysey
60. Leo Tolstoy - The death of Ivan Illyich
61. Donald Kagan - The Peloponesian war: Athens and sparta in savage conflict
62. Aristotle - The Athenian Constitution
63. Anthony Gottieb - The Dream of Reason
64. Plutarch - The rise and fall of Athens
65. Paul Cartledge - Thebes: The forgotten city of Ancient Greece
66. Thomas De Quincy - Confessions of an English Opium eater & other works
67. William Tucker - Chandras Cosmos
68. Aristophanes - Lysistrata, The Clouds, The Acharnians
69. Voltaire - The Calas affair/treatise on toleration
70. Tom Holland - Rubicon
71. Curtius Rufus - The History of Alexander
72. Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
73. Tom Holland - Persian Fire
74. Sigmund Freud - Civilisation & its discontents (in progress)
75. Barry S Strauss - The War that made the Roman empire: Anthony, Cleopatra and Octavian at Actium (in progress)
09-02-2023, 07:34 AM
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I've been going through Janet Evanovich books recently while I wait for some of my other fave authors books to come out this fall.
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29. Wicked Appetite by Janet Evanovich (Some characters from Plum series)
30. Wicked Business by Janet Evanovich
31. Wicked Charms by Janet Evanovich
32. Curious Minds by Janet Evanovich
33. Dangerous Minds by Janet Evanovich
34. The Recovery Agent by Janet Evanovich
35. Full House by Janet Evanovich- just started the other day
Spoiler!
1. The Choice (book 3 Dragon Heart Legacy) by Nora Roberts
2. Devoted in Death (#41 In Death series) by JD Robb.
3. Wonderment in Death (41.5 In Death series) by JD Robb
4. Brotherhood in Death (42 In Death ) by JD Robb
5. Apprentice in Death(book 43) by JD Robb
6. Echoes in Death (book 44) by JD Robb
7. Secrets in Death (book 45) by JD Robb
8. Dark in Death (book 46) by JD Robb
9. Leverage in Death (book 47) by JD Robb
10. Connections in Death (book 48) by JD Robb
11. Vendetta in Death (book 49) by JD Robb
12. Golden in Death (book 50) by JD Robb
13. Shadows in Death (book 51) by JD Robb
14. Faithless in Death (book 52) by JD Robb
15. Forgotten in Death (book 53) by JD Robb
16. Abandoned in Death (book 54) by JD Robb
17. Desperation in Death (book 55) by JD Robb
18. Encore in Death (book 56) by JD Robb
19. I Will Find You by Harlan Coben
20. The Cornwalls Vanish by James Patterson
21. Countdown by James Patterson
22. Identity by Nora Roberts
23. The Match by Harlan Coben
24. Maximum Ride Forever by James Patterson
25. Hawk by James Patterson
26. Hawk -City of the Dead by James Patterson
27. Game On (#28 Stephanie Plum) by Janet Evanovich
28. Going Rogue (#29 Stephanie Plum) by Janet Evanovich
2. Devoted in Death (#41 In Death series) by JD Robb.
3. Wonderment in Death (41.5 In Death series) by JD Robb
4. Brotherhood in Death (42 In Death ) by JD Robb
5. Apprentice in Death(book 43) by JD Robb
6. Echoes in Death (book 44) by JD Robb
7. Secrets in Death (book 45) by JD Robb
8. Dark in Death (book 46) by JD Robb
9. Leverage in Death (book 47) by JD Robb
10. Connections in Death (book 48) by JD Robb
11. Vendetta in Death (book 49) by JD Robb
12. Golden in Death (book 50) by JD Robb
13. Shadows in Death (book 51) by JD Robb
14. Faithless in Death (book 52) by JD Robb
15. Forgotten in Death (book 53) by JD Robb
16. Abandoned in Death (book 54) by JD Robb
17. Desperation in Death (book 55) by JD Robb
18. Encore in Death (book 56) by JD Robb
19. I Will Find You by Harlan Coben
20. The Cornwalls Vanish by James Patterson
21. Countdown by James Patterson
22. Identity by Nora Roberts
23. The Match by Harlan Coben
24. Maximum Ride Forever by James Patterson
25. Hawk by James Patterson
26. Hawk -City of the Dead by James Patterson
27. Game On (#28 Stephanie Plum) by Janet Evanovich
28. Going Rogue (#29 Stephanie Plum) by Janet Evanovich
29. Wicked Appetite by Janet Evanovich (Some characters from Plum series)
30. Wicked Business by Janet Evanovich
31. Wicked Charms by Janet Evanovich
32. Curious Minds by Janet Evanovich
33. Dangerous Minds by Janet Evanovich
34. The Recovery Agent by Janet Evanovich
35. Full House by Janet Evanovich- just started the other day
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09-04-2023, 06:46 AM
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Originally Posted By TappingTheZen⏩
I’ve got Rubicon on my list but haven’t started it yet. I’m not familiar with the author or his style but always fascinated by Rome and Caesar specificallyTom Holland - Rubicon - 3.5/5 - This was pretty decent, but it was still quite a pop history. It outlines the fall of the Roman republic, starting around the time of the donation of Pergamon to Rome, the Grachi, and ends around the battle of actium.
List as it stands:
Spoiler!
1. Voltaire - Candide
2. Carl Jung - Synchronicity
3. Thucydides - History of the Peloponnesian war
4. Stephen fry - Heroes
5. Albert Camus - The Fall
6. Euripides - Medea, Hecabe, Electra & Heracles
7. Daniel Dennett - Bacteria to bach and back
8. Xenophon - memorabilia
9. Richard Dawkins - The Extended Phenotype
10. Richard Dawkins - The Blind Watchmaker
11. Neil Gaiman - Norse Mythology
12. Xenophon - Hellenica
13. Dostoevsky - notes from underground
14. Plato - Phaedrus
15. Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus
16. Franz Kafka - the trial
17. Sean Carroll - The big picture
18. Plutarch - Greek lives
19. Plato - Symposium
20. Leibniz - Discourse on Metaphysics & Mondaology
21. Baltasar Gracian - Pocket Oracle & The Art of Prudence
22. Carlo Rovelli - Anaximander and the birth of science
23. Cicero - On Obligation
24. Plato - Timaeus & Critias
25. Carlo Rovelli - Helgoland
26. Plato - Meno, Lyches, Laches & Charmides
27. Nietszche - The birth of tragedy
28. Einhard & Notker the stammerer - 2 lives of Charlemagne
29. Anthony Everitt - Cicero
30. Marx & Engels - The communist Manifesto
31. Dostoevsky - The Double
32. Diodorus of Sicily - Books 16-20
33. Dividing the spoils - Robin Waterfield
34. Adrian Goldsworthy - Phillip & Alexander - Kings & Conquerers
35. Richard Dawkins - River out of eden
36. Nietzsche - Thus spoke Zarathustra
37. James S Romm - Ghost on the throne
38. Will Durant - The greatest minds and ideas of all time
39. James S Romm - Demetrius sacker of cities
40. Myke Cole - Legion verses Phalanx
41. Plutarch - Hellenstic Lives
42. Govert Schilling - Ripples in spacetime
43. Aristophanes - The Birds, Knights, Assembleywomen, Peace, Wealth
44. Ron Cowen - Gravitys century
45. Jeff Champion - Antigonus the one eyed
46. Daniel W Graham - Ancient philosophy (The Fundamentals)
47. James Romm - The Sacred band
48. Aristophanes - The Wasps, The poet & the woman, the frogs
49. Stephen Jay Gould - Questioning The Millenium
50. Richard Dawkins - Flights of fancy
51. David hume - Dialogues & Natural history of religion
52. Cicero - The Nature of the Gods
53. Anthony Gottleib - The Dream of Enlightenment
54. Franz Kafka - The Castle
55. Norman Cantor - Alexander
56. Nigel Warburton - A little history of philosophy
57. Jeff Champion - Pyrrhus Of Epirus
58. Carlo Rovelli - Seven brief lessons on physics
59. Homer - The Oddeysey
60. Leo Tolstoy - The death of Ivan Illyich
61. Donald Kagan - The Peloponesian war: Athens and sparta in savage conflict
62. Aristotle - The Athenian Constitution
63. Anthony Gottieb - The Dream of Reason
64. Plutarch - The rise and fall of Athens
65. Paul Cartledge - Thebes: The forgotten city of Ancient Greece
66. Thomas De Quincy - Confessions of an English Opium eater & other works
67. William Tucker - Chandras Cosmos
68. Aristophanes - Lysistrata, The Clouds, The Acharnians
69. Voltaire - The Calas affair/treatise on toleration
70. Tom Holland - Rubicon
71. Curtius Rufus - The History of Alexander
72. Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
73. Tom Holland - Persian Fire
74. Sigmund Freud - Civilisation & its discontents (in progress)
75. Barry S Strauss - The War that made the Roman empire: Anthony, Cleopatra and Octavian at Actium (in progress)
List as it stands:
Spoiler!
1. Voltaire - Candide
2. Carl Jung - Synchronicity
3. Thucydides - History of the Peloponnesian war
4. Stephen fry - Heroes
5. Albert Camus - The Fall
6. Euripides - Medea, Hecabe, Electra & Heracles
7. Daniel Dennett - Bacteria to bach and back
8. Xenophon - memorabilia
9. Richard Dawkins - The Extended Phenotype
10. Richard Dawkins - The Blind Watchmaker
11. Neil Gaiman - Norse Mythology
12. Xenophon - Hellenica
13. Dostoevsky - notes from underground
14. Plato - Phaedrus
15. Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus
16. Franz Kafka - the trial
17. Sean Carroll - The big picture
18. Plutarch - Greek lives
19. Plato - Symposium
20. Leibniz - Discourse on Metaphysics & Mondaology
21. Baltasar Gracian - Pocket Oracle & The Art of Prudence
22. Carlo Rovelli - Anaximander and the birth of science
23. Cicero - On Obligation
24. Plato - Timaeus & Critias
25. Carlo Rovelli - Helgoland
26. Plato - Meno, Lyches, Laches & Charmides
27. Nietszche - The birth of tragedy
28. Einhard & Notker the stammerer - 2 lives of Charlemagne
29. Anthony Everitt - Cicero
30. Marx & Engels - The communist Manifesto
31. Dostoevsky - The Double
32. Diodorus of Sicily - Books 16-20
33. Dividing the spoils - Robin Waterfield
34. Adrian Goldsworthy - Phillip & Alexander - Kings & Conquerers
35. Richard Dawkins - River out of eden
36. Nietzsche - Thus spoke Zarathustra
37. James S Romm - Ghost on the throne
38. Will Durant - The greatest minds and ideas of all time
39. James S Romm - Demetrius sacker of cities
40. Myke Cole - Legion verses Phalanx
41. Plutarch - Hellenstic Lives
42. Govert Schilling - Ripples in spacetime
43. Aristophanes - The Birds, Knights, Assembleywomen, Peace, Wealth
44. Ron Cowen - Gravitys century
45. Jeff Champion - Antigonus the one eyed
46. Daniel W Graham - Ancient philosophy (The Fundamentals)
47. James Romm - The Sacred band
48. Aristophanes - The Wasps, The poet & the woman, the frogs
49. Stephen Jay Gould - Questioning The Millenium
50. Richard Dawkins - Flights of fancy
51. David hume - Dialogues & Natural history of religion
52. Cicero - The Nature of the Gods
53. Anthony Gottleib - The Dream of Enlightenment
54. Franz Kafka - The Castle
55. Norman Cantor - Alexander
56. Nigel Warburton - A little history of philosophy
57. Jeff Champion - Pyrrhus Of Epirus
58. Carlo Rovelli - Seven brief lessons on physics
59. Homer - The Oddeysey
60. Leo Tolstoy - The death of Ivan Illyich
61. Donald Kagan - The Peloponesian war: Athens and sparta in savage conflict
62. Aristotle - The Athenian Constitution
63. Anthony Gottieb - The Dream of Reason
64. Plutarch - The rise and fall of Athens
65. Paul Cartledge - Thebes: The forgotten city of Ancient Greece
66. Thomas De Quincy - Confessions of an English Opium eater & other works
67. William Tucker - Chandras Cosmos
68. Aristophanes - Lysistrata, The Clouds, The Acharnians
69. Voltaire - The Calas affair/treatise on toleration
70. Tom Holland - Rubicon
71. Curtius Rufus - The History of Alexander
72. Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
73. Tom Holland - Persian Fire
74. Sigmund Freud - Civilisation & its discontents (in progress)
75. Barry S Strauss - The War that made the Roman empire: Anthony, Cleopatra and Octavian at Actium (in progress)
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Originally Posted By MrQuint⏩
I've read a couple of his books. He's definitely good if you want a good overview of the events and he writes an entertaining narrative. However if you're a full on history nerd (which i suppose i am these days), then you'll want more detail as well, in which case i'd recommend more scholarly authors who work in Academia like Adrian Goldsworthy (for roman history, anyway) or James Romm. Tom Holland is pop history, but he is good as pop history goes.I’ve got Rubicon on my list but haven’t started it yet. I’m not familiar with the author or his style but always fascinated by Rome and Caesar specifically
Rubicon was still pretty decent though and will give you a good overview of the conditions, personalities and events that led to the fall of the republic, if you're not already aware. Rubicon is decent for a pop history of this period, because it actually goes into the events surrounding it and not just the civil war as many do (which irks me, because the conditions leading to it are just as important). It goes through the events that start about 100 years before Caesar crosses the Rubicon (grachi brothers, then the first civil war between Sulla and Marius, then the Catiline conspiracy), that gives you a good insight into the decline of the republic that made someone like Caesar inevitable.
Anthony Everett is another decent popular historian on the Roman empire, if you decide you want to go down that route. I actually quite enjoyed his book on Cicero, and have one on Augustus by him on my shelf to read.
Another option you might enjoy, would be to read about the civil war in the words of the man himself. Julius Caesar has his own book on the civil war which is a pretty decent read (i'm currently reading it). He also has a book on his Gaul campaign which i will read before this year is over that might interest you.
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Appreciate the response and recommendations! I’ve actually read Caesar’s works, I picked up The Landmark Series works of Caesar and Alexander. I haven’t opened the Alexander yet but Caesar’s we’re excellent. Sometimes I enjoy the pop versions for easier reading but love getting in depth too. Currently about a quarter of the way through Chandler’s Campaigns of Napoleon. Another solid read.I've read a couple of his books. He's definitely good if you want a good overview of the events and he writes an entertaining narrative. However if you're a full on history nerd (which i suppose i am these days), then you'll want more detail as well, in which case i'd recommend more scholarly authors who work in Academia like Adrian Goldsworthy (for roman history, anyway) or James Romm. Tom Holland is pop history, but he is good as pop history goes.
Rubicon was still pretty decent though and will give you a good overview of the conditions, personalities and events that led to the fall of the republic, if you're not already aware. Rubicon is decent for a pop history of this period, because it actually goes into the events surrounding it and not just the civil war as many do (which irks me, because the conditions leading to it are just as important). It goes through the events that start about 100 years before Caesar crosses the Rubicon (grachi brothers, then the first civil war between Sulla and Marius, then the Catiline conspiracy), that gives you a good insight into the decline of the republic that made someone like Caesar inevitable.
Anthony Everett is another decent popular historian on the Roman empire, if you decide you want to go down that route. I actually quite enjoyed his book on Cicero, and have one on Augustus by him on my shelf to read.
Another option you might enjoy, would be to read about the civil war in the words of the man himself. Julius Caesar has his own book on the civil war which is a pretty decent read (i'm currently reading it). He also has a book on his Gaul campaign which i will read before this year is over that might interest you.
Rubicon was still pretty decent though and will give you a good overview of the conditions, personalities and events that led to the fall of the republic, if you're not already aware. Rubicon is decent for a pop history of this period, because it actually goes into the events surrounding it and not just the civil war as many do (which irks me, because the conditions leading to it are just as important). It goes through the events that start about 100 years before Caesar crosses the Rubicon (grachi brothers, then the first civil war between Sulla and Marius, then the Catiline conspiracy), that gives you a good insight into the decline of the republic that made someone like Caesar inevitable.
Anthony Everett is another decent popular historian on the Roman empire, if you decide you want to go down that route. I actually quite enjoyed his book on Cicero, and have one on Augustus by him on my shelf to read.
Another option you might enjoy, would be to read about the civil war in the words of the man himself. Julius Caesar has his own book on the civil war which is a pretty decent read (i'm currently reading it). He also has a book on his Gaul campaign which i will read before this year is over that might interest you.
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Ah ok, landmark editions are good. I read the landmark edition of Herodotus & Thucydides (highly recommended if you ever want to read about classical greek history, the landmark editions are good for the maps and what not), i wasn't aware they did one on Caesars works, but the landmark Thucydides is often recommended. With this knowledge i may try to get the landmark edition of Caesars gaul campaigns so thank you (i currently just have an oxford one)Appreciate the response and recommendations! I’ve actually read Caesar’s works, I picked up The Landmark Series works of Caesar and Alexander. I haven’t opened the Alexander yet but Caesar’s we’re excellent. Sometimes I enjoy the pop versions for easier reading but love getting in depth too. Currently about a quarter of the way through Chandler’s Campaigns of Napoleon. Another solid read.
. I think the folio society editions of these books are the best, but they are usually quite expensive, depending on the book (for example, the folio society edition of Thucydides is ~500 dollars). The landmark series are probably the best for a reasonable price.To be honest, i've read pretty much everything that exists on Greek history, and majority of Roman history. I know my way around Napoleon but i haven't got balls deep yet, although i intend to at some point and have quite a lot of Napoleon books ready to be read lol. I actually have a folio society set of Chandlers campaigns of Napoleon, but haven't got round to reading them yet; based on your recommendation i certainly look forward to it.
Also agree regarding pop histories, they can work well to dip your toe in or just to have a bit more relaxed reading (scholarly reading can be intense sometimes). For this reason, i also find a lot of the pop histories work quite well in audible format, whereas the more scholarly, in depth ones are not as well suited to audible.
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I just finished this: 9/10I just started S.A. Cosby's All The Sinners Bleed, and after just three chapters, it's GREAT!!! Anxious to see what awaits.
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Originally Posted By TappingTheZen⏩
I have to admit, your reading list is impressive but also intimidating. I feel like it would take me far longer to get through a lot of that than it takes you.Ah ok, landmark editions are good. I read the landmark edition of Herodotus & Thucydides (highly recommended if you ever want to read about classical greek history, the landmark editions are good for the maps and what not), i wasn't aware they did one on Caesars works, but the landmark Thucydides is often recommended. With this knowledge i may try to get the landmark edition of Caesars gaul campaigns so thank you (i currently just have an oxford one)
. I think the folio society editions of these books are the best, but they are usually quite expensive, depending on the book (for example, the folio society edition of Thucydides is ~500 dollars). The landmark series are probably the best for a reasonable price.
To be honest, i've read pretty much everything that exists on Greek history, and majority of Roman history. I know my way around Napoleon but i haven't got balls deep yet, although i intend to at some point and have quite a lot of Napoleon books ready to be read lol. I actually have a folio society set of Chandlers campaigns of Napoleon, but haven't got round to reading them yet; based on your recommendation i certainly look forward to it.
Also agree regarding pop histories, they can work well to dip your toe in or just to have a bit more relaxed reading (scholarly reading can be intense sometimes). For this reason, i also find a lot of the pop histories work quite well in audible format, whereas the more scholarly, in depth ones are not as well suited to audible.
. I think the folio society editions of these books are the best, but they are usually quite expensive, depending on the book (for example, the folio society edition of Thucydides is ~500 dollars). The landmark series are probably the best for a reasonable price.To be honest, i've read pretty much everything that exists on Greek history, and majority of Roman history. I know my way around Napoleon but i haven't got balls deep yet, although i intend to at some point and have quite a lot of Napoleon books ready to be read lol. I actually have a folio society set of Chandlers campaigns of Napoleon, but haven't got round to reading them yet; based on your recommendation i certainly look forward to it.
Also agree regarding pop histories, they can work well to dip your toe in or just to have a bit more relaxed reading (scholarly reading can be intense sometimes). For this reason, i also find a lot of the pop histories work quite well in audible format, whereas the more scholarly, in depth ones are not as well suited to audible.
Update
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1 The Second Day at Gettysburg by David Schultz and Scott Mingus Sr.
2. The Whisper on the Wind by Adam Schoalts
3. Cro-Magnon:How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans” by Brian ***an
4 Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors” by Nicholas Wade
5 Genghis: Birth of an Empire by Conn Iggulden
6 Genghis:Lords of the Bow by Conn Iggulden
7 Whatever You Do, Don't Run by Peter Allison
8 My Life with Ndoto: Exploring Africa in a Forty-Year-Old Land Rover by Teresa O'Kane
9 Genghis: Bones of the Hills by Conn Iggulden
10 Khan: Empire of Silver by Conn Iggulden
11 Safari Jema by Teresa O'Kane
12 Walking the Himalayas by Levison Wood
13 The Overlanders: An African Journey by Michael Leytonstone
14 Our Italian Journey: Living our dream in Italy for one year by Ilene and Gary Modica
15 When Your Heart Finds its Home: The Journey Continues by Ilene and Gary Modica
16 Conqueror by Conn Iggulden
17 Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam by Stephen Sears.
18 An Arabian Journey: One Man’s Quest Through The Heart of the Middle East by Levison Wood
19 A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
20 An Italian Journey: A Harvest of Revelations in the Olive Groves of Tuscany by James Earnest Shaw
21 Canoeing with the Cree by Eric Sevareid
22 DiCarlo: Buffalo's First Family of Crime Vol 1
23 DiCarlo: Buffalo's First Family of Crime Vol 2
24 American Made: Who Killed Barry Seal by Shaun Attwood
25 Finding Myself in Puglia by Laine Brown
26 Through a Howling Wilderness: Benedict Arnold's March to Quebec by Thomas Desjardin
27 Black Flag of the North: Bartholomew Roberts, King of the Atlantic Pirates by Victor Suthren
28 Waterloo by Bernard Cornwell
29 Blood Covenant by Michael Franzese
30 Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone by Martin Dugard
31 Once Around Algonquin by Kevin Callan
32 Who Killed Tom Thomson by John Little
33 Walking the Americas: 1800 Miles, Eight Countries by Levison Wood
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Originally Posted By MrQuint⏩
Thanks appreciate that - but i'm sure you could, i just have a good routine in place that i stick to for reading.I have to admit, your reading list is impressive but also intimidating. I feel like it would take me far longer to get through a lot of that than it takes you.
Updates:
Finish -
Sigmund Freud - Civilisation and it's discontents - 3/5 - This started off really good, without going into too much detail it delved into the relationship between civilisation/society & our instincts, and poses the question if humans can be happy. In a society we gain security, we gain food etc, but we have to overcome/suppress our instincts to a degree, which can lead to discontent in humans. However, the alternative is not much better (i.e a state of nature). It veered off a bit for me towards the end however, when Freud in his typical fashion proposed that all of our actions can be understood as sexual repression.
Barry Strauss - The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium - 4/5 - This was an extremely detailed account of the personalities at Actium, and generally a good (long) outline of the civil war between Augustus and Anthony. The only thing i didn't like is that the author is especially apologetic to Cleopatra, i think he thinks hes countering the sexism of the time (which obviously did exist), but i think he's overstretched and just becomes a cleopatra apoligizer. However, these passages are few and overall the book is exce
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Julius Caesar - The Civil war - I have nearly finished this, with just the Spanish campaign to read, which along with the African war & Alexandrian war parts were not written by Caesar. Caesars account was straight forward, detailed, and a solid read, and the Alexandrian account was a very good account as well, probably written by one of Caesars lieutenants. The African war, however, is not written to near the same scholarly level, and i've heard the spanish war is worse. I will rate this according to Caesars accounts only.
Robin Lane Fox - Homer & His Illiad - Great read so far, very in depth book by a pretty well known classicist delving into the roots of the Illiad, when how and by whom it may have been composed etc.
List as it stands:
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1. Voltaire - Candide
2. Carl Jung - Synchronicity
3. Thucydides - History of the Peloponnesian war
4. Stephen fry - Heroes
5. Albert Camus - The Fall
6. Euripides - Medea, Hecabe, Electra & Heracles
7. Daniel Dennett - Bacteria to bach and back
8. Xenophon - memorabilia
9. Richard Dawkins - The Extended Phenotype
10. Richard Dawkins - The Blind Watchmaker
11. Neil Gaiman - Norse Mythology
12. Xenophon - Hellenica
13. Dostoevsky - notes from underground
14. Plato - Phaedrus
15. Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus
16. Franz Kafka - the trial
17. Sean Carroll - The big picture
18. Plutarch - Greek lives
19. Plato - Symposium
20. Leibniz - Discourse on Metaphysics & Mondaology
21. Baltasar Gracian - Pocket Oracle & The Art of Prudence
22. Carlo Rovelli - Anaximander and the birth of science
23. Cicero - On Obligation
24. Plato - Timaeus & Critias
25. Carlo Rovelli - Helgoland
26. Plato - Meno, Lyches, Laches & Charmides
27. Nietszche - The birth of tragedy
28. Einhard & Notker the stammerer - 2 lives of Charlemagne
29. Anthony Everitt - Cicero
30. Marx & Engels - The communist Manifesto
31. Dostoevsky - The Double
32. Diodorus of Sicily - Books 16-20
33. Dividing the spoils - Robin Waterfield
34. Adrian Goldsworthy - Phillip & Alexander - Kings & Conquerers
35. Richard Dawkins - River out of eden
36. Nietzsche - Thus spoke Zarathustra
37. James S Romm - Ghost on the throne
38. Will Durant - The greatest minds and ideas of all time
39. James S Romm - Demetrius sacker of cities
40. Myke Cole - Legion verses Phalanx
41. Plutarch - Hellenstic Lives
42. Govert Schilling - Ripples in spacetime
43. Aristophanes - The Birds, Knights, Assembleywomen, Peace, Wealth
44. Ron Cowen - Gravitys century
45. Jeff Champion - Antigonus the one eyed
46. Daniel W Graham - Ancient philosophy (The Fundamentals)
47. James Romm - The Sacred band
48. Aristophanes - The Wasps, The poet & the woman, the frogs
49. Stephen Jay Gould - Questioning The Millenium
50. Richard Dawkins - Flights of fancy
51. David hume - Dialogues & Natural history of religion
52. Cicero - The Nature of the Gods
53. Anthony Gottleib - The Dream of Enlightenment
54. Franz Kafka - The Castle
55. Norman Cantor - Alexander
56. Nigel Warburton - A little history of philosophy
57. Jeff Champion - Pyrrhus Of Epirus
58. Carlo Rovelli - Seven brief lessons on physics
59. Homer - The Oddeysey
60. Leo Tolstoy - The death of Ivan Illyich
61. Donald Kagan - The Peloponesian war: Athens and sparta in savage conflict
62. Aristotle - The Athenian Constitution
63. Anthony Gottieb - The Dream of Reason
64. Plutarch - The rise and fall of Athens
65. Paul Cartledge - Thebes: The forgotten city of Ancient Greece
66. Thomas De Quincy - Confessions of an English Opium eater & other works
67. William Tucker - Chandras Cosmos
68. Aristophanes - Lysistrata, The Clouds, The Acharnians
69. Voltaire - The Calas affair/treatise on toleration
70. Tom Holland - Rubicon
71. Curtius Rufus - The History of Alexander
72. Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
73. Tom Holland - Persian Fire
74. Sigmund Freud - Civilisation & its discontents
75. Barry S Strauss - The War that made the Roman empire: Anthony, Cleopatra and Octavian at Actium
76. Julius Caesar - The Civil War (in progress)
77. Robin Lane Fox - Homer & his Illiad (in progress)
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Started reading "Gambler" by Billy Walters.
If you are a man with any testosterone at all, this book will be incredible for you.
If you are a man with any testosterone at all, this book will be incredible for you.
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Update
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1 The Second Day at Gettysburg by David Schultz and Scott Mingus Sr.
2. The Whisper on the Wind by Adam Schoalts
3. Cro-Magnon:How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans” by Brian ***an
4 Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors” by Nicholas Wade
5 Genghis: Birth of an Empire by Conn Iggulden
6 Genghis:Lords of the Bow by Conn Iggulden
7 Whatever You Do, Don't Run by Peter Allison
8 My Life with Ndoto: Exploring Africa in a Forty-Year-Old Land Rover by Teresa O'Kane
9 Genghis: Bones of the Hills by Conn Iggulden
10 Khan: Empire of Silver by Conn Iggulden
11 Safari Jema by Teresa O'Kane
12 Walking the Himalayas by Levison Wood
13 The Overlanders: An African Journey by Michael Leytonstone
14 Our Italian Journey: Living our dream in Italy for one year by Ilene and Gary Modica
15 When Your Heart Finds its Home: The Journey Continues by Ilene and Gary Modica
16 Conqueror by Conn Iggulden
17 Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam by Stephen Sears.
18 An Arabian Journey: One Man’s Quest Through The Heart of the Middle East by Levison Wood
19 A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
20 An Italian Journey: A Harvest of Revelations in the Olive Groves of Tuscany by James Earnest Shaw
21 Canoeing with the Cree by Eric Sevareid
22 DiCarlo: Buffalo's First Family of Crime Vol 1
23 DiCarlo: Buffalo's First Family of Crime Vol 2
24 American Made: Who Killed Barry Seal by Shaun Attwood
25 Finding Myself in Puglia by Laine Brown
26 Through a Howling Wilderness: Benedict Arnold's March to Quebec by Thomas Desjardin
27 Black Flag of the North: Bartholomew Roberts, King of the Atlantic Pirates by Victor Suthren
28 Waterloo by Bernard Cornwell
29 Blood Covenant by Michael Franzese
30 Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone by Martin Dugard
31 Once Around Algonquin by Kevin Callan
32 Who Killed Tom Thomson by John Little
33 Walking the Americas: 1800 Miles, Eight Countries by Levison Wood
34 Republic of Pirates by Colin Woodard
35 Northern Light by Roy Macgregor
Spoiler!
1 The Second Day at Gettysburg by David Schultz and Scott Mingus Sr.
2. The Whisper on the Wind by Adam Schoalts
3. Cro-Magnon:How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans” by Brian ***an
4 Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors” by Nicholas Wade
5 Genghis: Birth of an Empire by Conn Iggulden
6 Genghis:Lords of the Bow by Conn Iggulden
7 Whatever You Do, Don't Run by Peter Allison
8 My Life with Ndoto: Exploring Africa in a Forty-Year-Old Land Rover by Teresa O'Kane
9 Genghis: Bones of the Hills by Conn Iggulden
10 Khan: Empire of Silver by Conn Iggulden
11 Safari Jema by Teresa O'Kane
12 Walking the Himalayas by Levison Wood
13 The Overlanders: An African Journey by Michael Leytonstone
14 Our Italian Journey: Living our dream in Italy for one year by Ilene and Gary Modica
15 When Your Heart Finds its Home: The Journey Continues by Ilene and Gary Modica
16 Conqueror by Conn Iggulden
17 Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam by Stephen Sears.
18 An Arabian Journey: One Man’s Quest Through The Heart of the Middle East by Levison Wood
19 A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
20 An Italian Journey: A Harvest of Revelations in the Olive Groves of Tuscany by James Earnest Shaw
21 Canoeing with the Cree by Eric Sevareid
22 DiCarlo: Buffalo's First Family of Crime Vol 1
23 DiCarlo: Buffalo's First Family of Crime Vol 2
24 American Made: Who Killed Barry Seal by Shaun Attwood
25 Finding Myself in Puglia by Laine Brown
26 Through a Howling Wilderness: Benedict Arnold's March to Quebec by Thomas Desjardin
27 Black Flag of the North: Bartholomew Roberts, King of the Atlantic Pirates by Victor Suthren
28 Waterloo by Bernard Cornwell
29 Blood Covenant by Michael Franzese
30 Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone by Martin Dugard
31 Once Around Algonquin by Kevin Callan
32 Who Killed Tom Thomson by John Little
33 Walking the Americas: 1800 Miles, Eight Countries by Levison Wood
34 Republic of Pirates by Colin Woodard
35 Northern Light by Roy Macgregor
Here's to swimmin' with bow-legged women.
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#51 A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie
fantastic read, book 1 of his Age of Madness trilogy which takes place 30 years after The First Law.
Much like book 1 of First Law, no huge overlying plot, just small goings on and great characters. Many returning characters from his other books, plus a lot of their children. Savine & Orso are bringing the lols and the cringe. Seriously, this guy's writing is so good. I'm gonna be bummed when I finish this trilogy and have no more of his books to read
1 more to go and challenge complete!
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1. Necessity by Jo Walton (thessaly book 3)
2. Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter
3. The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
4. Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
5. The Buried Giant by Kazou Ishiguro
6. A Space Between Worlds vy Micaiah Johnson
7. Confessions on the 7:45 by Lisa Unger
8. The Shadow Land by Elizabeth Kostova
9. 4000 Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
10. Fairy Tale by Stephen King
11. The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis
12. Prince Caspian by CS Lewis
13. Voyage of the Dawn Treader by CS Lewis
14. The Silver Chair by CS Lewis
15. A Horse and his Boy by CS Lewis
16. The *****ian's Nephew by CS Lewis
17. The Last Battle by CS Lewis
18. The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander
19. The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander
20. The Castle of Llyr by Lloyd Alexander
21. Taran Wanderer by Lloyd Alexander
22. The High King by Lloyd Alexander
23. The Final Empire (Mistborn) by Brandon Sanderson
24. The Well of Ascension (Mistborn book 2) by Brandon Sanderson
25. The Hero of Ages (Mistborn book 3) by Brandon Sanderson
26. The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer
27. The Blade Itself (First Law Book 1) by Joe Abercrombie
28. Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman
29. A Road to Character by David Brooks
30. Before They Are Hanged (First Law Book 2) by Joe Abercrombie
31. Last Argument of Kings (First Law Book 3) by Joe Abercrombie
32. We Are the Dead (Last War Book 1) by Mike Shackle
33. A Fool's Hope (Last War Book 2) by Mike Shackle
34. Until the Last (Last War Book 3) by Mike Shackle
35. Mythos by Stephen Fry
36. The Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen King
37. Red Rising (Red Rising Trilogy Book 1) by Pierce Brown
38. Golden Son (Red Rising Trilogy Book 2) by Pierce Brown
39. Morning Star (Red Rising Trilogy Book 3) by Pierce Brown
40. Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie
41. The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie
42. Red Country by Joe Abercrombie
43. Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman
44. Suicide Motor Club by Christopher Buehlman
45. Sharp Ends by Joe Abercrombie
46. The Talisman by Stephen King & Peter Straub
47. Heroes by Stephen Fry
48. Troy by Stephen Fry
49. The Lesser Dead by Christopher Buehlman
50. The Shining by Stephen King
51. A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie (Age of Madness Book 1)
fantastic read, book 1 of his Age of Madness trilogy which takes place 30 years after The First Law.
Much like book 1 of First Law, no huge overlying plot, just small goings on and great characters. Many returning characters from his other books, plus a lot of their children. Savine & Orso are bringing the lols and the cringe. Seriously, this guy's writing is so good. I'm gonna be bummed when I finish this trilogy and have no more of his books to read
1 more to go and challenge complete!
Spoiler!
1. Necessity by Jo Walton (thessaly book 3)
2. Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter
3. The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
4. Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
5. The Buried Giant by Kazou Ishiguro
6. A Space Between Worlds vy Micaiah Johnson
7. Confessions on the 7:45 by Lisa Unger
8. The Shadow Land by Elizabeth Kostova
9. 4000 Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
10. Fairy Tale by Stephen King
11. The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis
12. Prince Caspian by CS Lewis
13. Voyage of the Dawn Treader by CS Lewis
14. The Silver Chair by CS Lewis
15. A Horse and his Boy by CS Lewis
16. The *****ian's Nephew by CS Lewis
17. The Last Battle by CS Lewis
18. The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander
19. The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander
20. The Castle of Llyr by Lloyd Alexander
21. Taran Wanderer by Lloyd Alexander
22. The High King by Lloyd Alexander
23. The Final Empire (Mistborn) by Brandon Sanderson
24. The Well of Ascension (Mistborn book 2) by Brandon Sanderson
25. The Hero of Ages (Mistborn book 3) by Brandon Sanderson
26. The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer
27. The Blade Itself (First Law Book 1) by Joe Abercrombie
28. Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman
29. A Road to Character by David Brooks
30. Before They Are Hanged (First Law Book 2) by Joe Abercrombie
31. Last Argument of Kings (First Law Book 3) by Joe Abercrombie
32. We Are the Dead (Last War Book 1) by Mike Shackle
33. A Fool's Hope (Last War Book 2) by Mike Shackle
34. Until the Last (Last War Book 3) by Mike Shackle
35. Mythos by Stephen Fry
36. The Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen King
37. Red Rising (Red Rising Trilogy Book 1) by Pierce Brown
38. Golden Son (Red Rising Trilogy Book 2) by Pierce Brown
39. Morning Star (Red Rising Trilogy Book 3) by Pierce Brown
40. Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie
41. The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie
42. Red Country by Joe Abercrombie
43. Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman
44. Suicide Motor Club by Christopher Buehlman
45. Sharp Ends by Joe Abercrombie
46. The Talisman by Stephen King & Peter Straub
47. Heroes by Stephen Fry
48. Troy by Stephen Fry
49. The Lesser Dead by Christopher Buehlman
50. The Shining by Stephen King
51. A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie (Age of Madness Book 1)
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09-20-2023, 04:02 AM
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Since last update:
Caesar - The Civil war - 4/5 - Caesars commentary is pretty fascinating, the Alexandrian war (not written by caesar) was also high quality. The African war was OK, and the spanish war was all over the place, neither of which were written by Caesar himself.
Robin Lane Fox - Homer & His Iliad - 4/5 - Fascinating, long look at the Iliad, its origins, possible method of composition etc. Very interesting.
Nietzsche - Human, All too human - 4.5/5 - Really enjoyed this, having already read maybe 10 Nietzsche books i wasn't sure if this would offer anything new. It was a fascinating look into human psychology, and the development of culture.
Currently reading:
Caesar - The Gallic war - About half way through, very much enjoying it so far.
Dennis C Rasmussen - The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship that Shaped Modern Thought - Very interesting so far, a look into the friendship of David Hume & Adam Smith, and how they influenced one another and shaped philosophical, political and economic thought into its modern synthesis.
Spoiler!
1. Voltaire - Candide
2. Carl Jung - Synchronicity
3. Thucydides - History of the Peloponnesian war
4. Stephen fry - Heroes
5. Albert Camus - The Fall
6. Euripides - Medea, Hecabe, Electra & Heracles
7. Daniel Dennett - Bacteria to bach and back
8. Xenophon - memorabilia
9. Richard Dawkins - The Extended Phenotype
10. Richard Dawkins - The Blind Watchmaker
11. Neil Gaiman - Norse Mythology
12. Xenophon - Hellenica
13. Dostoevsky - notes from underground
14. Plato - Phaedrus
15. Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus
16. Franz Kafka - the trial
17. Sean Carroll - The big picture
18. Plutarch - Greek lives
19. Plato - Symposium
20. Leibniz - Discourse on Metaphysics & Mondaology
21. Baltasar Gracian - Pocket Oracle & The Art of Prudence
22. Carlo Rovelli - Anaximander and the birth of science
23. Cicero - On Obligation
24. Plato - Timaeus & Critias
25. Carlo Rovelli - Helgoland
26. Plato - Meno, Lyches, Laches & Charmides
27. Nietszche - The birth of tragedy
28. Einhard & Notker the stammerer - 2 lives of Charlemagne
29. Anthony Everitt - Cicero
30. Marx & Engels - The communist Manifesto
31. Dostoevsky - The Double
32. Diodorus of Sicily - Books 16-20
33. Dividing the spoils - Robin Waterfield
34. Adrian Goldsworthy - Phillip & Alexander - Kings & Conquerers
35. Richard Dawkins - River out of eden
36. Nietzsche - Thus spoke Zarathustra
37. James S Romm - Ghost on the throne
38. Will Durant - The greatest minds and ideas of all time
39. James S Romm - Demetrius sacker of cities
40. Myke Cole - Legion verses Phalanx
41. Plutarch - Hellenstic Lives
42. Govert Schilling - Ripples in spacetime
43. Aristophanes - The Birds, Knights, Assembleywomen, Peace, Wealth
44. Ron Cowen - Gravitys century
45. Jeff Champion - Antigonus the one eyed
46. Daniel W Graham - Ancient philosophy (The Fundamentals)
47. James Romm - The Sacred band
48. Aristophanes - The Wasps, The poet & the woman, the frogs
49. Stephen Jay Gould - Questioning The Millenium
50. Richard Dawkins - Flights of fancy
51. David hume - Dialogues & Natural history of religion
52. Cicero - The Nature of the Gods
53. Anthony Gottleib - The Dream of Enlightenment
54. Franz Kafka - The Castle
55. Norman Cantor - Alexander
56. Nigel Warburton - A little history of philosophy
57. Jeff Champion - Pyrrhus Of Epirus
58. Carlo Rovelli - Seven brief lessons on physics
59. Homer - The Oddeysey
60. Leo Tolstoy - The death of Ivan Illyich
61. Donald Kagan - The Peloponesian war: Athens and sparta in savage conflict
62. Aristotle - The Athenian Constitution
63. Anthony Gottieb - The Dream of Reason
64. Plutarch - The rise and fall of Athens
65. Paul Cartledge - Thebes: The forgotten city of Ancient Greece
66. Thomas De Quincy - Confessions of an English Opium eater & other works
67. William Tucker - Chandras Cosmos
68. Aristophanes - Lysistrata, The Clouds, The Acharnians
69. Voltaire - The Calas affair/treatise on toleration
70. Tom Holland - Rubicon
71. Curtius Rufus - The History of Alexander
72. Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
73. Tom Holland - Persian Fire
74. Sigmund Freud - Civilisation & its discontents
75. Barry S Strauss - The War that made the Roman empire: Anthony, Cleopatra and Octavian at Actium
76. Julius Caesar - The Civil War
77. Robin Lane Fox - Homer & his Iliad
78. Nietzsche - Human, All too human
79. Julius Caesar - The Gallic Wars (in progress)
80. Dennis C Rasmussen - The Infidel and the Professor (in progress)
Caesar - The Civil war - 4/5 - Caesars commentary is pretty fascinating, the Alexandrian war (not written by caesar) was also high quality. The African war was OK, and the spanish war was all over the place, neither of which were written by Caesar himself.
Robin Lane Fox - Homer & His Iliad - 4/5 - Fascinating, long look at the Iliad, its origins, possible method of composition etc. Very interesting.
Nietzsche - Human, All too human - 4.5/5 - Really enjoyed this, having already read maybe 10 Nietzsche books i wasn't sure if this would offer anything new. It was a fascinating look into human psychology, and the development of culture.
Currently reading:
Caesar - The Gallic war - About half way through, very much enjoying it so far.
Dennis C Rasmussen - The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship that Shaped Modern Thought - Very interesting so far, a look into the friendship of David Hume & Adam Smith, and how they influenced one another and shaped philosophical, political and economic thought into its modern synthesis.
Spoiler!
1. Voltaire - Candide
2. Carl Jung - Synchronicity
3. Thucydides - History of the Peloponnesian war
4. Stephen fry - Heroes
5. Albert Camus - The Fall
6. Euripides - Medea, Hecabe, Electra & Heracles
7. Daniel Dennett - Bacteria to bach and back
8. Xenophon - memorabilia
9. Richard Dawkins - The Extended Phenotype
10. Richard Dawkins - The Blind Watchmaker
11. Neil Gaiman - Norse Mythology
12. Xenophon - Hellenica
13. Dostoevsky - notes from underground
14. Plato - Phaedrus
15. Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus
16. Franz Kafka - the trial
17. Sean Carroll - The big picture
18. Plutarch - Greek lives
19. Plato - Symposium
20. Leibniz - Discourse on Metaphysics & Mondaology
21. Baltasar Gracian - Pocket Oracle & The Art of Prudence
22. Carlo Rovelli - Anaximander and the birth of science
23. Cicero - On Obligation
24. Plato - Timaeus & Critias
25. Carlo Rovelli - Helgoland
26. Plato - Meno, Lyches, Laches & Charmides
27. Nietszche - The birth of tragedy
28. Einhard & Notker the stammerer - 2 lives of Charlemagne
29. Anthony Everitt - Cicero
30. Marx & Engels - The communist Manifesto
31. Dostoevsky - The Double
32. Diodorus of Sicily - Books 16-20
33. Dividing the spoils - Robin Waterfield
34. Adrian Goldsworthy - Phillip & Alexander - Kings & Conquerers
35. Richard Dawkins - River out of eden
36. Nietzsche - Thus spoke Zarathustra
37. James S Romm - Ghost on the throne
38. Will Durant - The greatest minds and ideas of all time
39. James S Romm - Demetrius sacker of cities
40. Myke Cole - Legion verses Phalanx
41. Plutarch - Hellenstic Lives
42. Govert Schilling - Ripples in spacetime
43. Aristophanes - The Birds, Knights, Assembleywomen, Peace, Wealth
44. Ron Cowen - Gravitys century
45. Jeff Champion - Antigonus the one eyed
46. Daniel W Graham - Ancient philosophy (The Fundamentals)
47. James Romm - The Sacred band
48. Aristophanes - The Wasps, The poet & the woman, the frogs
49. Stephen Jay Gould - Questioning The Millenium
50. Richard Dawkins - Flights of fancy
51. David hume - Dialogues & Natural history of religion
52. Cicero - The Nature of the Gods
53. Anthony Gottleib - The Dream of Enlightenment
54. Franz Kafka - The Castle
55. Norman Cantor - Alexander
56. Nigel Warburton - A little history of philosophy
57. Jeff Champion - Pyrrhus Of Epirus
58. Carlo Rovelli - Seven brief lessons on physics
59. Homer - The Oddeysey
60. Leo Tolstoy - The death of Ivan Illyich
61. Donald Kagan - The Peloponesian war: Athens and sparta in savage conflict
62. Aristotle - The Athenian Constitution
63. Anthony Gottieb - The Dream of Reason
64. Plutarch - The rise and fall of Athens
65. Paul Cartledge - Thebes: The forgotten city of Ancient Greece
66. Thomas De Quincy - Confessions of an English Opium eater & other works
67. William Tucker - Chandras Cosmos
68. Aristophanes - Lysistrata, The Clouds, The Acharnians
69. Voltaire - The Calas affair/treatise on toleration
70. Tom Holland - Rubicon
71. Curtius Rufus - The History of Alexander
72. Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
73. Tom Holland - Persian Fire
74. Sigmund Freud - Civilisation & its discontents
75. Barry S Strauss - The War that made the Roman empire: Anthony, Cleopatra and Octavian at Actium
76. Julius Caesar - The Civil War
77. Robin Lane Fox - Homer & his Iliad
78. Nietzsche - Human, All too human
79. Julius Caesar - The Gallic Wars (in progress)
80. Dennis C Rasmussen - The Infidel and the Professor (in progress)
09-29-2023, 08:12 AM
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Boom, #52 done, finished The Trouble With Peace by Joe Abercrombie last weekend. Never thought I could do 52 in a year, and here I am finished in less than 9 months. Feelsgoodman, and props to everyone in this thread for keeping the dream alive, plus all the recommendations.
Already part way into the final book of this trilogy, The Wisdom of Crowds
Spoiler!
1. Necessity by Jo Walton (thessaly book 3)
2. Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter
3. The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
4. Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
5. The Buried Giant by Kazou Ishiguro
6. A Space Between Worlds vy Micaiah Johnson
7. Confessions on the 7:45 by Lisa Unger
8. The Shadow Land by Elizabeth Kostova
9. 4000 Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
10. Fairy Tale by Stephen King
11. The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis
12. Prince Caspian by CS Lewis
13. Voyage of the Dawn Treader by CS Lewis
14. The Silver Chair by CS Lewis
15. A Horse and his Boy by CS Lewis
16. The *****ian's Nephew by CS Lewis
17. The Last Battle by CS Lewis
18. The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander
19. The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander
20. The Castle of Llyr by Lloyd Alexander
21. Taran Wanderer by Lloyd Alexander
22. The High King by Lloyd Alexander
23. The Final Empire (Mistborn) by Brandon Sanderson
24. The Well of Ascension (Mistborn book 2) by Brandon Sanderson
25. The Hero of Ages (Mistborn book 3) by Brandon Sanderson
26. The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer
27. The Blade Itself (First Law Book 1) by Joe Abercrombie
28. Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman
29. A Road to Character by David Brooks
30. Before They Are Hanged (First Law Book 2) by Joe Abercrombie
31. Last Argument of Kings (First Law Book 3) by Joe Abercrombie
32. We Are the Dead (Last War Book 1) by Mike Shackle
33. A Fool's Hope (Last War Book 2) by Mike Shackle
34. Until the Last (Last War Book 3) by Mike Shackle
35. Mythos by Stephen Fry
36. The Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen King
37. Red Rising (Red Rising Trilogy Book 1) by Pierce Brown
38. Golden Son (Red Rising Trilogy Book 2) by Pierce Brown
39. Morning Star (Red Rising Trilogy Book 3) by Pierce Brown
40. Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie
41. The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie
42. Red Country by Joe Abercrombie
43. Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman
44. Suicide Motor Club by Christopher Buehlman
45. Sharp Ends by Joe Abercrombie
46. The Talisman by Stephen King & Peter Straub
47. Heroes by Stephen Fry
48. Troy by Stephen Fry
49. The Lesser Dead by Christopher Buehlman
50. The Shining by Stephen King
51. A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie (Age of Madness Book 1)
52. The Trouble with Peace by Joe Abercrombie (Age of Madness Book 2)
Already part way into the final book of this trilogy, The Wisdom of Crowds
Spoiler!
1. Necessity by Jo Walton (thessaly book 3)
2. Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter
3. The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
4. Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
5. The Buried Giant by Kazou Ishiguro
6. A Space Between Worlds vy Micaiah Johnson
7. Confessions on the 7:45 by Lisa Unger
8. The Shadow Land by Elizabeth Kostova
9. 4000 Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
10. Fairy Tale by Stephen King
11. The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis
12. Prince Caspian by CS Lewis
13. Voyage of the Dawn Treader by CS Lewis
14. The Silver Chair by CS Lewis
15. A Horse and his Boy by CS Lewis
16. The *****ian's Nephew by CS Lewis
17. The Last Battle by CS Lewis
18. The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander
19. The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander
20. The Castle of Llyr by Lloyd Alexander
21. Taran Wanderer by Lloyd Alexander
22. The High King by Lloyd Alexander
23. The Final Empire (Mistborn) by Brandon Sanderson
24. The Well of Ascension (Mistborn book 2) by Brandon Sanderson
25. The Hero of Ages (Mistborn book 3) by Brandon Sanderson
26. The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer
27. The Blade Itself (First Law Book 1) by Joe Abercrombie
28. Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman
29. A Road to Character by David Brooks
30. Before They Are Hanged (First Law Book 2) by Joe Abercrombie
31. Last Argument of Kings (First Law Book 3) by Joe Abercrombie
32. We Are the Dead (Last War Book 1) by Mike Shackle
33. A Fool's Hope (Last War Book 2) by Mike Shackle
34. Until the Last (Last War Book 3) by Mike Shackle
35. Mythos by Stephen Fry
36. The Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen King
37. Red Rising (Red Rising Trilogy Book 1) by Pierce Brown
38. Golden Son (Red Rising Trilogy Book 2) by Pierce Brown
39. Morning Star (Red Rising Trilogy Book 3) by Pierce Brown
40. Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie
41. The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie
42. Red Country by Joe Abercrombie
43. Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman
44. Suicide Motor Club by Christopher Buehlman
45. Sharp Ends by Joe Abercrombie
46. The Talisman by Stephen King & Peter Straub
47. Heroes by Stephen Fry
48. Troy by Stephen Fry
49. The Lesser Dead by Christopher Buehlman
50. The Shining by Stephen King
51. A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie (Age of Madness Book 1)
52. The Trouble with Peace by Joe Abercrombie (Age of Madness Book 2)
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09-29-2023, 08:37 AM
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I just finished another Steve Cavanagh legal thriller with his protagonist Eddie Flynn entitled Fifty-Fifty. The book starts with TWO 911 calls, both by sisters who father was just murdered in their house. Each sister claims on the 911 call that the other sister is the murderer. Very good: a solid 9/10!
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09-29-2023, 08:54 AM
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Been slow on my books this year but good to see this thread.
Reading the three-part series "Out of Istanbul" about an old guy who walked the old silk road (turkey, Iraq, etc)
Reading the three-part series "Out of Istanbul" about an old guy who walked the old silk road (turkey, Iraq, etc)
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10-02-2023, 08:45 AM
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Finished the latest Mitch Rapp novel: Code Red: another great book (9/10).
This is Kyle Mills last book in the series but the story will continue with another writer. Mills has started doing something (actually, NOT doing something) over the last several books which is that he no longer specifically refers to Mitch's age. This is really prudent considering the supposed timeline of this novel. Mitch was in college during the PanAm Lockerby incident in 1988. I recall there being some conflicting info in the earlier books, but by those accounts Mitch was either born in 1966 or 1968. As such, he's getting to be too old (I was born in 1966) to realistically be able to do what is written about him so you basically just "freeze" him as an older agent that doesn't become geriatric.
Other authors have done something similar, but one modern day author who hasn't is Michael Connelly. His Harry Bosch character was drafted during Vietnam, and he has aged in realtime which is disappointing to me because he's now written about as a 70+ year old detective. I'm a huge Connelly fan (both Bosch and Mickey Haller aka the Lincoln Lawyer), but I haven't even read the last couple Bosch books because I miss the action packed, kick@$$ Bosch of yesteryear.
This is Kyle Mills last book in the series but the story will continue with another writer. Mills has started doing something (actually, NOT doing something) over the last several books which is that he no longer specifically refers to Mitch's age. This is really prudent considering the supposed timeline of this novel. Mitch was in college during the PanAm Lockerby incident in 1988. I recall there being some conflicting info in the earlier books, but by those accounts Mitch was either born in 1966 or 1968. As such, he's getting to be too old (I was born in 1966) to realistically be able to do what is written about him so you basically just "freeze" him as an older agent that doesn't become geriatric.
Other authors have done something similar, but one modern day author who hasn't is Michael Connelly. His Harry Bosch character was drafted during Vietnam, and he has aged in realtime which is disappointing to me because he's now written about as a 70+ year old detective. I'm a huge Connelly fan (both Bosch and Mickey Haller aka the Lincoln Lawyer), but I haven't even read the last couple Bosch books because I miss the action packed, kick@$$ Bosch of yesteryear.
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10-02-2023, 09:15 AM
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Spoiler!
35. Full House by Janet Evanovich
36. Full Tilt by Janet Evanovich
37. Full Speed by Janet Evanovich
38. Full Blast by Janet Evanovich
39. Full Bloom by Janet Evanovich
40. Full Scoop by Janet Evanovich
41. Dancing with Myself- Billy Idol autobiography
1. The Choice (book 3 Dragon Heart Legacy) by Nora Roberts
2. Devoted in Death (#41 In Death series) by JD Robb.
3. Wonderment in Death (41.5 In Death series) by JD Robb
4. Brotherhood in Death (42 In Death ) by JD Robb
5. Apprentice in Death(book 43) by JD Robb
6. Echoes in Death (book 44) by JD Robb
7. Secrets in Death (book 45) by JD Robb
8. Dark in Death (book 46) by JD Robb
9. Leverage in Death (book 47) by JD Robb
10. Connections in Death (book 48) by JD Robb
11. Vendetta in Death (book 49) by JD Robb
12. Golden in Death (book 50) by JD Robb
13. Shadows in Death (book 51) by JD Robb
14. Faithless in Death (book 52) by JD Robb
15. Forgotten in Death (book 53) by JD Robb
16. Abandoned in Death (book 54) by JD Robb
17. Desperation in Death (book 55) by JD Robb
18. Encore in Death (book 56) by JD Robb
19. I Will Find You by Harlan Coben
20. The Cornwalls Vanish by James Patterson
21. Countdown by James Patterson
22. Identity by Nora Roberts
23. The Match by Harlan Coben
24. Maximum Ride Forever by James Patterson
25. Hawk by James Patterson
26. Hawk -City of the Dead by James Patterson
27. Game On (#28 Stephanie Plum) by Janet Evanovich
28. Going Rogue (#29 Stephanie Plum) by Janet Evanovich
29. Wicked Appetite by Janet Evanovich (Some characters from Plum series)
30. Wicked Business by Janet Evanovich
31. Wicked Charms by Janet Evanovich
32. Curious Minds by Janet Evanovich
33. Dangerous Minds by Janet Evanovich
34. The Recovery Agent by Janet Evanovich
2. Devoted in Death (#41 In Death series) by JD Robb.
3. Wonderment in Death (41.5 In Death series) by JD Robb
4. Brotherhood in Death (42 In Death ) by JD Robb
5. Apprentice in Death(book 43) by JD Robb
6. Echoes in Death (book 44) by JD Robb
7. Secrets in Death (book 45) by JD Robb
8. Dark in Death (book 46) by JD Robb
9. Leverage in Death (book 47) by JD Robb
10. Connections in Death (book 48) by JD Robb
11. Vendetta in Death (book 49) by JD Robb
12. Golden in Death (book 50) by JD Robb
13. Shadows in Death (book 51) by JD Robb
14. Faithless in Death (book 52) by JD Robb
15. Forgotten in Death (book 53) by JD Robb
16. Abandoned in Death (book 54) by JD Robb
17. Desperation in Death (book 55) by JD Robb
18. Encore in Death (book 56) by JD Robb
19. I Will Find You by Harlan Coben
20. The Cornwalls Vanish by James Patterson
21. Countdown by James Patterson
22. Identity by Nora Roberts
23. The Match by Harlan Coben
24. Maximum Ride Forever by James Patterson
25. Hawk by James Patterson
26. Hawk -City of the Dead by James Patterson
27. Game On (#28 Stephanie Plum) by Janet Evanovich
28. Going Rogue (#29 Stephanie Plum) by Janet Evanovich
29. Wicked Appetite by Janet Evanovich (Some characters from Plum series)
30. Wicked Business by Janet Evanovich
31. Wicked Charms by Janet Evanovich
32. Curious Minds by Janet Evanovich
33. Dangerous Minds by Janet Evanovich
34. The Recovery Agent by Janet Evanovich
35. Full House by Janet Evanovich
36. Full Tilt by Janet Evanovich
37. Full Speed by Janet Evanovich
38. Full Blast by Janet Evanovich
39. Full Bloom by Janet Evanovich
40. Full Scoop by Janet Evanovich
41. Dancing with Myself- Billy Idol autobiography
~ In a world where you can be anything, be kind ~
10-02-2023, 09:19 AM
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I'm currently reading Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse. I'm only 6 chapters in and loving it so far. If this book finishes off string I'll look into more Hesse
Full Nelson Anal by Janet Evanovich
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Wow Legz reading books based off TV shows from your Golden years. Sad! Does Uncle Jesse still get your panties wet?35. Full House by Janet Evanovich- just started the other day
Originally Posted By Legz422⏩
Don't forgetSpoiler!
35. Full House by Janet Evanovich
36. Full Tilt by Janet Evanovich
37. Full Speed by Janet Evanovich
38. Full Blast by Janet Evanovich
39. Full Bloom by Janet Evanovich
40. Full Scoop by Janet Evanovich
41. Dancing with Myself- Billy Idol autobiography
1. The Choice (book 3 Dragon Heart Legacy) by Nora Roberts
2. Devoted in Death (#41 In Death series) by JD Robb.
3. Wonderment in Death (41.5 In Death series) by JD Robb
4. Brotherhood in Death (42 In Death ) by JD Robb
5. Apprentice in Death(book 43) by JD Robb
6. Echoes in Death (book 44) by JD Robb
7. Secrets in Death (book 45) by JD Robb
8. Dark in Death (book 46) by JD Robb
9. Leverage in Death (book 47) by JD Robb
10. Connections in Death (book 48) by JD Robb
11. Vendetta in Death (book 49) by JD Robb
12. Golden in Death (book 50) by JD Robb
13. Shadows in Death (book 51) by JD Robb
14. Faithless in Death (book 52) by JD Robb
15. Forgotten in Death (book 53) by JD Robb
16. Abandoned in Death (book 54) by JD Robb
17. Desperation in Death (book 55) by JD Robb
18. Encore in Death (book 56) by JD Robb
19. I Will Find You by Harlan Coben
20. The Cornwalls Vanish by James Patterson
21. Countdown by James Patterson
22. Identity by Nora Roberts
23. The Match by Harlan Coben
24. Maximum Ride Forever by James Patterson
25. Hawk by James Patterson
26. Hawk -City of the Dead by James Patterson
27. Game On (#28 Stephanie Plum) by Janet Evanovich
28. Going Rogue (#29 Stephanie Plum) by Janet Evanovich
29. Wicked Appetite by Janet Evanovich (Some characters from Plum series)
30. Wicked Business by Janet Evanovich
31. Wicked Charms by Janet Evanovich
32. Curious Minds by Janet Evanovich
33. Dangerous Minds by Janet Evanovich
34. The Recovery Agent by Janet Evanovich
2. Devoted in Death (#41 In Death series) by JD Robb.
3. Wonderment in Death (41.5 In Death series) by JD Robb
4. Brotherhood in Death (42 In Death ) by JD Robb
5. Apprentice in Death(book 43) by JD Robb
6. Echoes in Death (book 44) by JD Robb
7. Secrets in Death (book 45) by JD Robb
8. Dark in Death (book 46) by JD Robb
9. Leverage in Death (book 47) by JD Robb
10. Connections in Death (book 48) by JD Robb
11. Vendetta in Death (book 49) by JD Robb
12. Golden in Death (book 50) by JD Robb
13. Shadows in Death (book 51) by JD Robb
14. Faithless in Death (book 52) by JD Robb
15. Forgotten in Death (book 53) by JD Robb
16. Abandoned in Death (book 54) by JD Robb
17. Desperation in Death (book 55) by JD Robb
18. Encore in Death (book 56) by JD Robb
19. I Will Find You by Harlan Coben
20. The Cornwalls Vanish by James Patterson
21. Countdown by James Patterson
22. Identity by Nora Roberts
23. The Match by Harlan Coben
24. Maximum Ride Forever by James Patterson
25. Hawk by James Patterson
26. Hawk -City of the Dead by James Patterson
27. Game On (#28 Stephanie Plum) by Janet Evanovich
28. Going Rogue (#29 Stephanie Plum) by Janet Evanovich
29. Wicked Appetite by Janet Evanovich (Some characters from Plum series)
30. Wicked Business by Janet Evanovich
31. Wicked Charms by Janet Evanovich
32. Curious Minds by Janet Evanovich
33. Dangerous Minds by Janet Evanovich
34. The Recovery Agent by Janet Evanovich
35. Full House by Janet Evanovich
36. Full Tilt by Janet Evanovich
37. Full Speed by Janet Evanovich
38. Full Blast by Janet Evanovich
39. Full Bloom by Janet Evanovich
40. Full Scoop by Janet Evanovich
41. Dancing with Myself- Billy Idol autobiography
Full Nelson Anal by Janet Evanovich
10-02-2023, 09:25 AM
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Originally Posted By Woody-5⏩
It looks like you're into a lot of the same stuff as me. I'm just about finished with book 5 (it's last one currently, but I doubt it concludes the series/story...) of 131 Days by Keith Blackmore.#51 A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie
fantastic read, book 1 of his Age of Madness trilogy which takes place 30 years after The First Law.
Much like book 1 of First Law, no huge overlying plot, just small goings on and great characters. Many returning characters from his other books, plus a lot of their children. Savine & Orso are bringing the lols and the cringe. Seriously, this guy's writing is so good. I'm gonna be bummed when I finish this trilogy and have no more of his books to read
1 more to go and challenge complete!
Spoiler!
1. Necessity by Jo Walton (thessaly book 3)
2. Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter
3. The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
4. Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
5. The Buried Giant by Kazou Ishiguro
6. A Space Between Worlds vy Micaiah Johnson
7. Confessions on the 7:45 by Lisa Unger
8. The Shadow Land by Elizabeth Kostova
9. 4000 Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
10. Fairy Tale by Stephen King
11. The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis
12. Prince Caspian by CS Lewis
13. Voyage of the Dawn Treader by CS Lewis
14. The Silver Chair by CS Lewis
15. A Horse and his Boy by CS Lewis
16. The *****ian's Nephew by CS Lewis
17. The Last Battle by CS Lewis
18. The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander
19. The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander
20. The Castle of Llyr by Lloyd Alexander
21. Taran Wanderer by Lloyd Alexander
22. The High King by Lloyd Alexander
23. The Final Empire (Mistborn) by Brandon Sanderson
24. The Well of Ascension (Mistborn book 2) by Brandon Sanderson
25. The Hero of Ages (Mistborn book 3) by Brandon Sanderson
26. The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer
27. The Blade Itself (First Law Book 1) by Joe Abercrombie
28. Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman
29. A Road to Character by David Brooks
30. Before They Are Hanged (First Law Book 2) by Joe Abercrombie
31. Last Argument of Kings (First Law Book 3) by Joe Abercrombie
32. We Are the Dead (Last War Book 1) by Mike Shackle
33. A Fool's Hope (Last War Book 2) by Mike Shackle
34. Until the Last (Last War Book 3) by Mike Shackle
35. Mythos by Stephen Fry
36. The Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen King
37. Red Rising (Red Rising Trilogy Book 1) by Pierce Brown
38. Golden Son (Red Rising Trilogy Book 2) by Pierce Brown
39. Morning Star (Red Rising Trilogy Book 3) by Pierce Brown
40. Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie
41. The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie
42. Red Country by Joe Abercrombie
43. Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman
44. Suicide Motor Club by Christopher Buehlman
45. Sharp Ends by Joe Abercrombie
46. The Talisman by Stephen King & Peter Straub
47. Heroes by Stephen Fry
48. Troy by Stephen Fry
49. The Lesser Dead by Christopher Buehlman
50. The Shining by Stephen King
51. A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie (Age of Madness Book 1)
fantastic read, book 1 of his Age of Madness trilogy which takes place 30 years after The First Law.
Much like book 1 of First Law, no huge overlying plot, just small goings on and great characters. Many returning characters from his other books, plus a lot of their children. Savine & Orso are bringing the lols and the cringe. Seriously, this guy's writing is so good. I'm gonna be bummed when I finish this trilogy and have no more of his books to read
1 more to go and challenge complete!
Spoiler!
1. Necessity by Jo Walton (thessaly book 3)
2. Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter
3. The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
4. Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
5. The Buried Giant by Kazou Ishiguro
6. A Space Between Worlds vy Micaiah Johnson
7. Confessions on the 7:45 by Lisa Unger
8. The Shadow Land by Elizabeth Kostova
9. 4000 Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
10. Fairy Tale by Stephen King
11. The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis
12. Prince Caspian by CS Lewis
13. Voyage of the Dawn Treader by CS Lewis
14. The Silver Chair by CS Lewis
15. A Horse and his Boy by CS Lewis
16. The *****ian's Nephew by CS Lewis
17. The Last Battle by CS Lewis
18. The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander
19. The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander
20. The Castle of Llyr by Lloyd Alexander
21. Taran Wanderer by Lloyd Alexander
22. The High King by Lloyd Alexander
23. The Final Empire (Mistborn) by Brandon Sanderson
24. The Well of Ascension (Mistborn book 2) by Brandon Sanderson
25. The Hero of Ages (Mistborn book 3) by Brandon Sanderson
26. The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer
27. The Blade Itself (First Law Book 1) by Joe Abercrombie
28. Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman
29. A Road to Character by David Brooks
30. Before They Are Hanged (First Law Book 2) by Joe Abercrombie
31. Last Argument of Kings (First Law Book 3) by Joe Abercrombie
32. We Are the Dead (Last War Book 1) by Mike Shackle
33. A Fool's Hope (Last War Book 2) by Mike Shackle
34. Until the Last (Last War Book 3) by Mike Shackle
35. Mythos by Stephen Fry
36. The Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen King
37. Red Rising (Red Rising Trilogy Book 1) by Pierce Brown
38. Golden Son (Red Rising Trilogy Book 2) by Pierce Brown
39. Morning Star (Red Rising Trilogy Book 3) by Pierce Brown
40. Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie
41. The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie
42. Red Country by Joe Abercrombie
43. Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman
44. Suicide Motor Club by Christopher Buehlman
45. Sharp Ends by Joe Abercrombie
46. The Talisman by Stephen King & Peter Straub
47. Heroes by Stephen Fry
48. Troy by Stephen Fry
49. The Lesser Dead by Christopher Buehlman
50. The Shining by Stephen King
51. A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie (Age of Madness Book 1)
It's about a Gladiatoral tournament, and related stuff. I really didn't start it expecting much (kind of just thought it would be mindless action with little depth, but decided to give it a shot anyway), but damn...I've really enjoyed it and it had way more depth and substance than I expected. I'm assuming the series is unfinished though, but who knows what the author's intentions are as far as writing more of them, as he has several other series (his biggest one being the Mountain Man, which he just finished book 7 of and apparently makes more money off of those than his fantasy work).
10-04-2023, 11:19 AM
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I lumped in a few audiobooks I wrapped up recently. I'm about halfway through Napoleon's Campaigns and maybe 1/4 through a book on the Hudson Bay Company. I've got the hard cover version of Napoleon's Campaigns and it's quite large so when I don't feel like lugging that around I fall back on the kindle so I'm bouncing between the two regularly.
I just finished listening to Four Years in the Rockies - Or, The Adventures of Isaac P. Rose. I ended up liking this much more than I anticipated. I love reading about the mountain men and trappers of the past centuries. The stories of trapping, encounters with grizzlies, assorted Native American tribes and even just imagining how they lasted the winters in the Rockies is humbling.
I had preordered Adam Shoalts' new book Where the Falcon Flies and that was just released a few days ago. So much to read, so little time!
Spoiler!
1 The Second Day at Gettysburg by David Schultz and Scott Mingus Sr.
2. The Whisper on the Wind by Adam Schoalts
3. Cro-Magnon:How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans” by Brian ***an
4 Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors” by Nicholas Wade
5 Genghis: Birth of an Empire by Conn Iggulden
6 Genghis:Lords of the Bow by Conn Iggulden
7 Whatever You Do, Don't Run by Peter Allison
8 My Life with Ndoto: Exploring Africa in a Forty-Year-Old Land Rover by Teresa O'Kane
9 Genghis: Bones of the Hills by Conn Iggulden
10 Khan: Empire of Silver by Conn Iggulden
11 Safari Jema by Teresa O'Kane
12 Walking the Himalayas by Levison Wood
13 The Overlanders: An African Journey by Michael Leytonstone
14 Our Italian Journey: Living our dream in Italy for one year by Ilene and Gary Modica
15 When Your Heart Finds its Home: The Journey Continues by Ilene and Gary Modica
16 Conqueror by Conn Iggulden
17 Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam by Stephen Sears.
18 An Arabian Journey: One Man’s Quest Through The Heart of the Middle East by Levison Wood
19 A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
20 An Italian Journey: A Harvest of Revelations in the Olive Groves of Tuscany by James Earnest Shaw
21 Canoeing with the Cree by Eric Sevareid
22 DiCarlo: Buffalo's First Family of Crime Vol 1
23 DiCarlo: Buffalo's First Family of Crime Vol 2
24 American Made: Who Killed Barry Seal by Shaun Attwood
25 Finding Myself in Puglia by Laine Brown
26 Through a Howling Wilderness: Benedict Arnold's March to Quebec by Thomas Desjardin
27 Black Flag of the North: Bartholomew Roberts, King of the Atlantic Pirates by Victor Suthren
28 Waterloo by Bernard Cornwell
29 Blood Covenant by Michael Franzese
30 Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone by Martin Dugard
31 Once Around Algonquin by Kevin Callan
32 Who Killed Tom Thomson by John Little
33 Walking the Americas: 1800 Miles, Eight Countries by Levison Wood
34 Republic of Pirates by Colin Woodard
35 Northern Light by Roy Macgregor
36 Black Mass: Whitey Bulger by Dick Lehr
37 The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger (audiobook)
38 Four Years in the Rockies by James B. Marsh (audiobook)
I just finished listening to Four Years in the Rockies - Or, The Adventures of Isaac P. Rose. I ended up liking this much more than I anticipated. I love reading about the mountain men and trappers of the past centuries. The stories of trapping, encounters with grizzlies, assorted Native American tribes and even just imagining how they lasted the winters in the Rockies is humbling.
I had preordered Adam Shoalts' new book Where the Falcon Flies and that was just released a few days ago. So much to read, so little time!
Spoiler!
1 The Second Day at Gettysburg by David Schultz and Scott Mingus Sr.
2. The Whisper on the Wind by Adam Schoalts
3. Cro-Magnon:How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans” by Brian ***an
4 Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors” by Nicholas Wade
5 Genghis: Birth of an Empire by Conn Iggulden
6 Genghis:Lords of the Bow by Conn Iggulden
7 Whatever You Do, Don't Run by Peter Allison
8 My Life with Ndoto: Exploring Africa in a Forty-Year-Old Land Rover by Teresa O'Kane
9 Genghis: Bones of the Hills by Conn Iggulden
10 Khan: Empire of Silver by Conn Iggulden
11 Safari Jema by Teresa O'Kane
12 Walking the Himalayas by Levison Wood
13 The Overlanders: An African Journey by Michael Leytonstone
14 Our Italian Journey: Living our dream in Italy for one year by Ilene and Gary Modica
15 When Your Heart Finds its Home: The Journey Continues by Ilene and Gary Modica
16 Conqueror by Conn Iggulden
17 Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam by Stephen Sears.
18 An Arabian Journey: One Man’s Quest Through The Heart of the Middle East by Levison Wood
19 A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
20 An Italian Journey: A Harvest of Revelations in the Olive Groves of Tuscany by James Earnest Shaw
21 Canoeing with the Cree by Eric Sevareid
22 DiCarlo: Buffalo's First Family of Crime Vol 1
23 DiCarlo: Buffalo's First Family of Crime Vol 2
24 American Made: Who Killed Barry Seal by Shaun Attwood
25 Finding Myself in Puglia by Laine Brown
26 Through a Howling Wilderness: Benedict Arnold's March to Quebec by Thomas Desjardin
27 Black Flag of the North: Bartholomew Roberts, King of the Atlantic Pirates by Victor Suthren
28 Waterloo by Bernard Cornwell
29 Blood Covenant by Michael Franzese
30 Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone by Martin Dugard
31 Once Around Algonquin by Kevin Callan
32 Who Killed Tom Thomson by John Little
33 Walking the Americas: 1800 Miles, Eight Countries by Levison Wood
34 Republic of Pirates by Colin Woodard
35 Northern Light by Roy Macgregor
36 Black Mass: Whitey Bulger by Dick Lehr
37 The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger (audiobook)
38 Four Years in the Rockies by James B. Marsh (audiobook)
Here's to swimmin' with bow-legged women.
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10-05-2023, 06:28 AM
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Update:
Unfortunately social obligations for about 6 days between my last update and now slowed my pace from what i would like but oh well.
Finished:
Caesar - The Gallic wars - 4.5/5 - I loved these, significantly better than his civil war commentaries. There's something about picturing him storming around Gaul chasing down tribes with his custom speed and energy that is enjoyable to picture.
Rasmussen - The Infidel and the Professor - 4/5 - Really good outline of the correspondence between Hume & Adam Smith and their friendship. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
Adrian Goldsworthy - Caesar - 4/5 - This was quite a long biography of Caesar (about 650 pages) and overall i enjoyed it; but i always seem to enjoy Goldsworthys books. His insight into the political life was great and well structured, but my only criticism is that his descriptions of some major battles are left wanting, and he even neglects to mention some all together. For example, he makes no mention of the Battle of the Nile after the Alexandra campaign, nor does he mention Mithridates of Pergamum relieving him (just that he got some relief force), and thus misses a great opportunity to describe the young Ptolemys death. He also neglects to mention Caesars actions in Syria appointing Sextus Caesar as governer on his way to fight the battle of Zela, and he also neglects to mention the aforementioned Mithridates is given the kingdom of Bosphorus after Zela. However, still great nonetheless despite some of these omissions.
Godfrey Peter-Smith - Theory & Reality - 3.5/5 - This is a book largely about epistemology and the philosophy of science, and i found it decent. I enjoyed parts of it, but having read both Karl Popper & Thomas Kuhn who are mentioned in the book in some detail, i disagree with certain parts of the authors characterisation of their views, especially Thomas Kuhn's. Still a good book nonetheless, and there's not a huge amount of books out there on the epistemology of science and it's history
Currently reading:
Cicero - Selected letters - This is a collection of about 170 letters covering much of Ciceros time in Rome, which thus also covers the period of Catiline, Caesar, Pompey, and both civil wars.
Robin Waterfield - Plato of Athens - This is quite new and i'm about to start; i've read a lot of waterfield in the past as he seems to do a lot on the classics, including translations for penguin and generally enjoy the scholarly quality of his work (the presocratics book by him is good). I have yet to see a proper biography of Plato surface, so i'm excited to see how this is, especially considering how little data there is on Plato's life outside his philosophical works.
Spoiler!
1. Voltaire - Candide
2. Carl Jung - Synchronicity
3. Thucydides - History of the Peloponnesian war
4. Stephen fry - Heroes
5. Albert Camus - The Fall
6. Euripides - Medea, Hecabe, Electra & Heracles
7. Daniel Dennett - Bacteria to bach and back
8. Xenophon - memorabilia
9. Richard Dawkins - The Extended Phenotype
10. Richard Dawkins - The Blind Watchmaker
11. Neil Gaiman - Norse Mythology
12. Xenophon - Hellenica
13. Dostoevsky - notes from underground
14. Plato - Phaedrus
15. Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus
16. Franz Kafka - the trial
17. Sean Carroll - The big picture
18. Plutarch - Greek lives
19. Plato - Symposium
20. Leibniz - Discourse on Metaphysics & Mondaology
21. Baltasar Gracian - Pocket Oracle & The Art of Prudence
22. Carlo Rovelli - Anaximander and the birth of science
23. Cicero - On Obligation
24. Plato - Timaeus & Critias
25. Carlo Rovelli - Helgoland
26. Plato - Meno, Lyches, Laches & Charmides
27. Nietszche - The birth of tragedy
28. Einhard & Notker the stammerer - 2 lives of Charlemagne
29. Anthony Everitt - Cicero
30. Marx & Engels - The communist Manifesto
31. Dostoevsky - The Double
32. Diodorus of Sicily - Books 16-20
33. Dividing the spoils - Robin Waterfield
34. Adrian Goldsworthy - Phillip & Alexander - Kings & Conquerers
35. Richard Dawkins - River out of eden
36. Nietzsche - Thus spoke Zarathustra
37. James S Romm - Ghost on the throne
38. Will Durant - The greatest minds and ideas of all time
39. James S Romm - Demetrius sacker of cities
40. Myke Cole - Legion verses Phalanx
41. Plutarch - Hellenstic Lives
42. Govert Schilling - Ripples in spacetime
43. Aristophanes - The Birds, Knights, Assembleywomen, Peace, Wealth
44. Ron Cowen - Gravitys century
45. Jeff Champion - Antigonus the one eyed
46. Daniel W Graham - Ancient philosophy (The Fundamentals)
47. James Romm - The Sacred band
48. Aristophanes - The Wasps, The poet & the woman, the frogs
49. Stephen Jay Gould - Questioning The Millenium
50. Richard Dawkins - Flights of fancy
51. David hume - Dialogues & Natural history of religion
52. Cicero - The Nature of the Gods
53. Anthony Gottleib - The Dream of Enlightenment
54. Franz Kafka - The Castle
55. Norman Cantor - Alexander
56. Nigel Warburton - A little history of philosophy
57. Jeff Champion - Pyrrhus Of Epirus
58. Carlo Rovelli - Seven brief lessons on physics
59. Homer - The Oddeysey
60. Leo Tolstoy - The death of Ivan Illyich
61. Donald Kagan - The Peloponesian war: Athens and sparta in savage conflict
62. Aristotle - The Athenian Constitution
63. Anthony Gottieb - The Dream of Reason
64. Plutarch - The rise and fall of Athens
65. Paul Cartledge - Thebes: The forgotten city of Ancient Greece
66. Thomas De Quincy - Confessions of an English Opium eater & other works
67. William Tucker - Chandras Cosmos
68. Aristophanes - Lysistrata, The Clouds, The Acharnians
69. Voltaire - The Calas affair/treatise on toleration
70. Tom Holland - Rubicon
71. Curtius Rufus - The History of Alexander
72. Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
73. Tom Holland - Persian Fire
74. Sigmund Freud - Civilisation & its discontents
75. Barry S Strauss - The War that made the Roman empire: Anthony, Cleopatra and Octavian at Actium
76. Julius Caesar - The Civil War
77. Robin Lane Fox - Homer & his Iliad
78. Nietzsche - Human, All too human
79. Julius Caesar - The Gallic Wars
80. Dennis C Rasmussen - The Infidel and the Professor
81. Adrian Goldsworthy - Caesar
82. Peter Godfrey-Smith - Theory & Reality
83. Cicero - Selected letters (currently reading)
84. Robin Waterfield - Plato of Athens (currently reading)
Unfortunately social obligations for about 6 days between my last update and now slowed my pace from what i would like but oh well.
Finished:
Caesar - The Gallic wars - 4.5/5 - I loved these, significantly better than his civil war commentaries. There's something about picturing him storming around Gaul chasing down tribes with his custom speed and energy that is enjoyable to picture.
Rasmussen - The Infidel and the Professor - 4/5 - Really good outline of the correspondence between Hume & Adam Smith and their friendship. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
Adrian Goldsworthy - Caesar - 4/5 - This was quite a long biography of Caesar (about 650 pages) and overall i enjoyed it; but i always seem to enjoy Goldsworthys books. His insight into the political life was great and well structured, but my only criticism is that his descriptions of some major battles are left wanting, and he even neglects to mention some all together. For example, he makes no mention of the Battle of the Nile after the Alexandra campaign, nor does he mention Mithridates of Pergamum relieving him (just that he got some relief force), and thus misses a great opportunity to describe the young Ptolemys death. He also neglects to mention Caesars actions in Syria appointing Sextus Caesar as governer on his way to fight the battle of Zela, and he also neglects to mention the aforementioned Mithridates is given the kingdom of Bosphorus after Zela. However, still great nonetheless despite some of these omissions.
Godfrey Peter-Smith - Theory & Reality - 3.5/5 - This is a book largely about epistemology and the philosophy of science, and i found it decent. I enjoyed parts of it, but having read both Karl Popper & Thomas Kuhn who are mentioned in the book in some detail, i disagree with certain parts of the authors characterisation of their views, especially Thomas Kuhn's. Still a good book nonetheless, and there's not a huge amount of books out there on the epistemology of science and it's history
Currently reading:
Cicero - Selected letters - This is a collection of about 170 letters covering much of Ciceros time in Rome, which thus also covers the period of Catiline, Caesar, Pompey, and both civil wars.
Robin Waterfield - Plato of Athens - This is quite new and i'm about to start; i've read a lot of waterfield in the past as he seems to do a lot on the classics, including translations for penguin and generally enjoy the scholarly quality of his work (the presocratics book by him is good). I have yet to see a proper biography of Plato surface, so i'm excited to see how this is, especially considering how little data there is on Plato's life outside his philosophical works.
Spoiler!
1. Voltaire - Candide
2. Carl Jung - Synchronicity
3. Thucydides - History of the Peloponnesian war
4. Stephen fry - Heroes
5. Albert Camus - The Fall
6. Euripides - Medea, Hecabe, Electra & Heracles
7. Daniel Dennett - Bacteria to bach and back
8. Xenophon - memorabilia
9. Richard Dawkins - The Extended Phenotype
10. Richard Dawkins - The Blind Watchmaker
11. Neil Gaiman - Norse Mythology
12. Xenophon - Hellenica
13. Dostoevsky - notes from underground
14. Plato - Phaedrus
15. Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus
16. Franz Kafka - the trial
17. Sean Carroll - The big picture
18. Plutarch - Greek lives
19. Plato - Symposium
20. Leibniz - Discourse on Metaphysics & Mondaology
21. Baltasar Gracian - Pocket Oracle & The Art of Prudence
22. Carlo Rovelli - Anaximander and the birth of science
23. Cicero - On Obligation
24. Plato - Timaeus & Critias
25. Carlo Rovelli - Helgoland
26. Plato - Meno, Lyches, Laches & Charmides
27. Nietszche - The birth of tragedy
28. Einhard & Notker the stammerer - 2 lives of Charlemagne
29. Anthony Everitt - Cicero
30. Marx & Engels - The communist Manifesto
31. Dostoevsky - The Double
32. Diodorus of Sicily - Books 16-20
33. Dividing the spoils - Robin Waterfield
34. Adrian Goldsworthy - Phillip & Alexander - Kings & Conquerers
35. Richard Dawkins - River out of eden
36. Nietzsche - Thus spoke Zarathustra
37. James S Romm - Ghost on the throne
38. Will Durant - The greatest minds and ideas of all time
39. James S Romm - Demetrius sacker of cities
40. Myke Cole - Legion verses Phalanx
41. Plutarch - Hellenstic Lives
42. Govert Schilling - Ripples in spacetime
43. Aristophanes - The Birds, Knights, Assembleywomen, Peace, Wealth
44. Ron Cowen - Gravitys century
45. Jeff Champion - Antigonus the one eyed
46. Daniel W Graham - Ancient philosophy (The Fundamentals)
47. James Romm - The Sacred band
48. Aristophanes - The Wasps, The poet & the woman, the frogs
49. Stephen Jay Gould - Questioning The Millenium
50. Richard Dawkins - Flights of fancy
51. David hume - Dialogues & Natural history of religion
52. Cicero - The Nature of the Gods
53. Anthony Gottleib - The Dream of Enlightenment
54. Franz Kafka - The Castle
55. Norman Cantor - Alexander
56. Nigel Warburton - A little history of philosophy
57. Jeff Champion - Pyrrhus Of Epirus
58. Carlo Rovelli - Seven brief lessons on physics
59. Homer - The Oddeysey
60. Leo Tolstoy - The death of Ivan Illyich
61. Donald Kagan - The Peloponesian war: Athens and sparta in savage conflict
62. Aristotle - The Athenian Constitution
63. Anthony Gottieb - The Dream of Reason
64. Plutarch - The rise and fall of Athens
65. Paul Cartledge - Thebes: The forgotten city of Ancient Greece
66. Thomas De Quincy - Confessions of an English Opium eater & other works
67. William Tucker - Chandras Cosmos
68. Aristophanes - Lysistrata, The Clouds, The Acharnians
69. Voltaire - The Calas affair/treatise on toleration
70. Tom Holland - Rubicon
71. Curtius Rufus - The History of Alexander
72. Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
73. Tom Holland - Persian Fire
74. Sigmund Freud - Civilisation & its discontents
75. Barry S Strauss - The War that made the Roman empire: Anthony, Cleopatra and Octavian at Actium
76. Julius Caesar - The Civil War
77. Robin Lane Fox - Homer & his Iliad
78. Nietzsche - Human, All too human
79. Julius Caesar - The Gallic Wars
80. Dennis C Rasmussen - The Infidel and the Professor
81. Adrian Goldsworthy - Caesar
82. Peter Godfrey-Smith - Theory & Reality
83. Cicero - Selected letters (currently reading)
84. Robin Waterfield - Plato of Athens (currently reading)
10-05-2023, 06:35 AM
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Fukkin' interesting as chit. It's a book about how non-human selves and minds exist and operate and it uses sign theory as kind of a universal translator to make a non-human anthropology. Amazing to read about how the idea of a mind as being inside a skull prison is a very human way of construing a mind.
Fungi, for example, have minds which are more like an internet or network and it's not located anywhere in particular.
Plus it fosters an attitude we really need to understand how ecosystems are big conversations of minds rather than objects we can exploit. Every living thing has a perspective which can be as alien to us as literal aliens would be.
Back off, Warchild.
Seriously.
10-05-2023, 07:19 AM
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Originally Posted By TappingTheZen⏩
Interesting, been self-learning Latin so I hope I can read this in the native Latin sometime in the coming year.Currently reading:
Cicero - Selected letters - This is a collection of about 170 letters covering much of Ciceros time in Rome, which thus also covers the period of Catiline, Caesar, Pompey, and both civil wars.
Cicero - Selected letters - This is a collection of about 170 letters covering much of Ciceros time in Rome, which thus also covers the period of Catiline, Caesar, Pompey, and both civil wars.
Also currently reading Cicero by Anthony Everitt
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10-05-2023, 07:28 AM
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Originally Posted By Bodhy⏩
Fukkin' interesting as chit. It's a book about how non-human selves and minds exist and operate and it uses sign theory as kind of a universal translator to make a non-human anthropology. Amazing to read about how the idea of a mind as being inside a skull prison is a very human way of construing a mind.
Fungi, for example, have minds which are more like an internet or network and it's not located anywhere in particular.
Plus it fosters an attitude we really need to understand how ecosystems are big conversations of minds rather than objects we can exploit. Every living thing has a perspective which can be as alien to us as literal aliens would be.
This does sound interesting. I have seen discussions on how plants can communicate say when a pest attacks. Pretty mind blowing to consider.Fukkin' interesting as chit. It's a book about how non-human selves and minds exist and operate and it uses sign theory as kind of a universal translator to make a non-human anthropology. Amazing to read about how the idea of a mind as being inside a skull prison is a very human way of construing a mind.
Fungi, for example, have minds which are more like an internet or network and it's not located anywhere in particular.
Plus it fosters an attitude we really need to understand how ecosystems are big conversations of minds rather than objects we can exploit. Every living thing has a perspective which can be as alien to us as literal aliens would be.
Here's to swimmin' with bow-legged women.
Vybz Kartel crew
10-05-2023, 09:02 AM
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Originally Posted By PumkinPie⏩
Salve PumkinPie,Interesting, been self-learning Latin so I hope I can read this in the native Latin sometime in the coming year.
Also currently reading Cicero by Anthony Everitt
Also currently reading Cicero by Anthony Everitt
I dabble in latin but i'm by no means an expert (i do it on duolingo haha) - i do have a billilngual copy of Virgil the georgics which i did use for latin for a while.
I've read Everett's cicero - it's pretty good but it is a little pop history-esque and isn't too critical of the sources, but i still very much enjoyed it. However, i don't really know of anyone else making a decent biography of Cicero, the focus is all on Caesar, pompey, augustus, anthony in that period. It's quite a shame really, Cicero is the most relatable and human to us modern men thanks to the hundreds of letters of correspondence that have been preserved. Everitts book definitely fills a gap here.
I've read about 50 letters so far, and i do enjoy his letters from the period of exile, especially his barbs about Clodius to Atticus. He has a lot of fun names for him, such as 'our little beauty', playing on his cognomen 'Pulcher' (which i'm sure you know means beautiful in latin lol). Cicero's ego is clearly somewhat fragile (i assume largely because of being a 'new man') and he never misses a chance to mention how he 'saved the republic' from Catiline, but he also seems to be somewhat aware of this nature in himself, and makes jokes about it from time to time. It's hard not to like him, as flawed as he is.
I also have a book on his political speeches which is probably of interest to you in your Latin journey. Haven't read it yet though so can't comment too much on it, but i know it has traditionally been used, along with his letters by learners of Latin. I have been meaning to read them for a while tbh, along with Demosthenes speeches (although i'm not going to learn Attic Greek to read them in the original lol)
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I was traveling a good portion of the weekend so didn't get much reading done. On the other hand it's a good chance to listen to an audiobook. I chose "Call of the American Wild" by Guy Grieve. Nothing heavy but an interesting story of an individual in Scotland who is fed up with his job and decides to fly to the Yukon and live in the bush for a year. He has zero experience and ends up befriending some locals who help him out.
Spoiler!
1 The Second Day at Gettysburg by David Schultz and Scott Mingus Sr.
2. The Whisper on the Wind by Adam Schoalts
3. Cro-Magnon:How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans” by Brian ***an
4 Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors” by Nicholas Wade
5 Genghis: Birth of an Empire by Conn Iggulden
6 Genghis:Lords of the Bow by Conn Iggulden
7 Whatever You Do, Don't Run by Peter Allison
8 My Life with Ndoto: Exploring Africa in a Forty-Year-Old Land Rover by Teresa O'Kane
9 Genghis: Bones of the Hills by Conn Iggulden
10 Khan: Empire of Silver by Conn Iggulden
11 Safari Jema by Teresa O'Kane
12 Walking the Himalayas by Levison Wood
13 The Overlanders: An African Journey by Michael Leytonstone
14 Our Italian Journey: Living our dream in Italy for one year by Ilene and Gary Modica
15 When Your Heart Finds its Home: The Journey Continues by Ilene and Gary Modica
16 Conqueror by Conn Iggulden
17 Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam by Stephen Sears.
18 An Arabian Journey: One Man’s Quest Through The Heart of the Middle East by Levison Wood
19 A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
20 An Italian Journey: A Harvest of Revelations in the Olive Groves of Tuscany by James Earnest Shaw
21 Canoeing with the Cree by Eric Sevareid
22 DiCarlo: Buffalo's First Family of Crime Vol 1
23 DiCarlo: Buffalo's First Family of Crime Vol 2
24 American Made: Who Killed Barry Seal by Shaun Attwood
25 Finding Myself in Puglia by Laine Brown
26 Through a Howling Wilderness: Benedict Arnold's March to Quebec by Thomas Desjardin
27 Black Flag of the North: Bartholomew Roberts, King of the Atlantic Pirates by Victor Suthren
28 Waterloo by Bernard Cornwell
29 Blood Covenant by Michael Franzese
30 Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone by Martin Dugard
31 Once Around Algonquin by Kevin Callan
32 Who Killed Tom Thomson by John Little
33 Walking the Americas: 1800 Miles, Eight Countries by Levison Wood
34 Republic of Pirates by Colin Woodard
35 Northern Light by Roy Macgregor
36 Black Mass: Whitey Bulger by Dick Lehr
37 The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger (audiobook)
38 Four Years in the Rockies by James B. Marsh (audiobook)
39 Call of the American Wild by Guy Grieve (audiobook)
Spoiler!
1 The Second Day at Gettysburg by David Schultz and Scott Mingus Sr.
2. The Whisper on the Wind by Adam Schoalts
3. Cro-Magnon:How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans” by Brian ***an
4 Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors” by Nicholas Wade
5 Genghis: Birth of an Empire by Conn Iggulden
6 Genghis:Lords of the Bow by Conn Iggulden
7 Whatever You Do, Don't Run by Peter Allison
8 My Life with Ndoto: Exploring Africa in a Forty-Year-Old Land Rover by Teresa O'Kane
9 Genghis: Bones of the Hills by Conn Iggulden
10 Khan: Empire of Silver by Conn Iggulden
11 Safari Jema by Teresa O'Kane
12 Walking the Himalayas by Levison Wood
13 The Overlanders: An African Journey by Michael Leytonstone
14 Our Italian Journey: Living our dream in Italy for one year by Ilene and Gary Modica
15 When Your Heart Finds its Home: The Journey Continues by Ilene and Gary Modica
16 Conqueror by Conn Iggulden
17 Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam by Stephen Sears.
18 An Arabian Journey: One Man’s Quest Through The Heart of the Middle East by Levison Wood
19 A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
20 An Italian Journey: A Harvest of Revelations in the Olive Groves of Tuscany by James Earnest Shaw
21 Canoeing with the Cree by Eric Sevareid
22 DiCarlo: Buffalo's First Family of Crime Vol 1
23 DiCarlo: Buffalo's First Family of Crime Vol 2
24 American Made: Who Killed Barry Seal by Shaun Attwood
25 Finding Myself in Puglia by Laine Brown
26 Through a Howling Wilderness: Benedict Arnold's March to Quebec by Thomas Desjardin
27 Black Flag of the North: Bartholomew Roberts, King of the Atlantic Pirates by Victor Suthren
28 Waterloo by Bernard Cornwell
29 Blood Covenant by Michael Franzese
30 Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone by Martin Dugard
31 Once Around Algonquin by Kevin Callan
32 Who Killed Tom Thomson by John Little
33 Walking the Americas: 1800 Miles, Eight Countries by Levison Wood
34 Republic of Pirates by Colin Woodard
35 Northern Light by Roy Macgregor
36 Black Mass: Whitey Bulger by Dick Lehr
37 The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger (audiobook)
38 Four Years in the Rockies by James B. Marsh (audiobook)
39 Call of the American Wild by Guy Grieve (audiobook)
Here's to swimmin' with bow-legged women.
Vybz Kartel crew
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