Now reading (The Book Thread)

Discussion in 'Art & Culture' started by Avatar, Jun 30, 2006.

  1. wynn ˙ Valued Senior Member

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    Are those apple pies of some kind and other baked goods, in the upper third of the picture?
     
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  3. Dywyddyr Penguinaciously duckalicious. Valued Senior Member

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    Philistine!!
    No. They're cut, shaped and possibly painted flock/ sponge/ lichen/ straw/ something else (possibly even modelling clay). To represent crops. Or something decidedly un-military like that.
     
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  5. wynn ˙ Valued Senior Member

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    And that blur of something light brownish in the third quadrant - that is a tornado?
     
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  7. Dywyddyr Penguinaciously duckalicious. Valued Senior Member

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    Bah!
    Do you know nothing?
    It's (quite obviously) a tree.
    (Or nearly reasonable facsimile thereof).
     
  8. wynn ˙ Valued Senior Member

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    Wouldn't that make me enlightened and stuff?
     
  9. Dywyddyr Penguinaciously duckalicious. Valued Senior Member

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    Depends on the stuff.

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  10. Killjoy Propelling The Farce!! Valued Senior Member

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    The yellow things are surely pineapple squares, no matter what they claim.

    "Supermod" material, no doubt.
     
  11. Tiassa Let us not launch the boat ... Valued Senior Member

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    Wrinkles of Imagination

    In recent days, I've been reading Madeline L'Engle's famous Wrinkle trilogy. I adore the books, and my daughter is settling to dream each night from the legendary world in which good and evil transcend any name of God. We started A Swiftly Tilting Planet this week, and it's strange to admit that, for all I love these books, I don't recall ever having finished the tale before.
     
  12. aaqucnaona This sentence is a lie Valued Senior Member

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    The god delusion - Dawkins
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    The satan bug - Alistair Maclean
     
  13. Faure Registered Senior Member

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    Been reading a few of Turgenev's Hunting Sketches here and there.

    Also, the Discourses of Epictetus.

    Just read the novel Choke by Chuck P-whatever, which was definitely one of the worst novels I've ever read.
     
  14. Dywyddyr Penguinaciously duckalicious. Valued Senior Member

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    Quantum, Manjit Kumar. A pretty good account of how quantum theory arose and the impact it's had on physics.

    The Boys' Book of Airfix, Arthur Ward. A history of the famous British company.
     
  15. Psyche Registered Senior Member

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    A Scanner Darkly by Philip K Dick

    Finally got bored of non-fiction. Really glad I picked this up. Apparently I like Sci-Fi.
     
  16. Liebling Doesn't Need to be Spoonfed. Valued Senior Member

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    Just finished 'The Land of Laughs' by Jonathan Carroll

    Now Reading;

    The 10th Anniversary Edition of 'American Gods' on audio
    (I'm in the car a ton recently travelling back and forth to both work and school and have 2 hours to kill each day)
     
  17. Unconcept Registered Senior Member

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    The Demon Haunted World - Carl Sagan
     
  18. Balerion Banned Banned

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    Still reading Arguably by Christopher Hitchens, though it's a collection of essays as opposed to one long narrative, so I pick it up and set it down as I go.

    On the fiction front, I'm all about Jack Vance right now. Just tore through The Dying Earth, and moved on to Eyes of the Overworld. Great stuff. Can't believe I've never read him til now.
     
  19. The Esotericist Getting the message to Garcia Valued Senior Member

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    Recently finished . . .

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    "It is difficult to distinguish fact from legend . . . I have found no consensus on what is fact; it depends on the viewpoint. Interestingly enough , legend -- which is by definition distorted -- gives a far more acceptable view of events. Everyone agrees on legend, but nobody agrees on facts."

    ~ Micheal Coney, The Celestial Stream Locomotive

    I like historical novels. I found this to be a really nice explanation of how the Templars evolved into the Scottish Rite Freemasons who helped Robert the Bruce throw off English Tyranny. It was sort of a nice sequel, albeit two hundred years later, to Porter's Scottish Chiefs. If you have read and enjoyed that, you would like this.

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  20. JackMcS Registered Member

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    Just finished the Hunger Games and really enjoyed the books.. The movies.. well not so much. But then again the book is always better.

    Currently reading this new medium of fiction my friend got me hooked on called "Emotobooks" Reading their fantasy title now called "Lingering in the Woods" Really interesting stuff. Lemme know if ya check it out, would love to discuss it with other members
     
  21. river

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    I'm now reading

    Zecharia Sitchin's Earth Chronicles , on his third book , in the series

    Excellent read

    there is so , so , so much about the Ancient past we don't know

    such as what Copernicus found , is actually a rediscovery , the Earth in a circular orbit around the Sun and the other planets was found out about , 6000yrs ago by the Sumerians

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  22. Tiassa Let us not launch the boat ... Valued Senior Member

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    Reading list

    Suddenly I find my reading list plentiful:

    • William E. Shotts, Jr., The Linux Command Line

    • Guy Murchie, The Seven Mysteries of Life

    • Niall Ferguson, Civilization

    • Rachel Maddow, Drift

    • Clive Barker, Absolute Midnight

    And I have more coming via an online retailer not named after a South American river; a couple of replacement volumes (Brust's Agyar and Starhawk's Spiral Dance) and Ted Conover's The Routes of Man.
     
  23. davekm Banned Banned

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    I highly recommend the author Raymond Carver.
     

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