i just finished up the urban hermit. it went downhill pretty quickly after the first half. but it was awesome for a while. it was good enough that i read it in one evening, with a break in the middle to ride my bike around.
i actually started reading the qur'an translated in english, religion fascinates me, and i want to see what their perspective is.
Been going through some old books lately. I get on kicks. It may be fiction, classics, business books, gambling books, anything. Just read "the Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King." Great book if you love poker. I'm about to start, "the Intelligent Investor". I've had it for years but haven't ever gotten around to a good time to read it and focus. I'm off of novels right now.
"Write It When I'm Gone: Remarkable Off-the-Record Conversations With Gerald R. Ford" by Thomas DeFrank, who covered Ford for Newsweek beginning when he was VP. I'm going to read "All The President's Men" next.
Atlas of The Indian Tribes Of North America by Nicholas Santoro -- Well-done atlas of Native America with good maps. I love atlases and own dozens of them. I can open one anywhere and pore over it for hours. The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins -- A very readable and encyclopedic summary of the basic evidence for evolution. Dawkins is a very good explainer of complex scientific concepts if you can handle his angry and acerbic rhetoric towards "deniers". I can see where martin has gotten his style from. Ship of the Line by C. S. Forrester -- Yet another in my attempt to read every novel from the great age of sail. This is one of the classic Horatio Hornblower novels. Only O'Brien has come even close to Forrester in this genre.
my dad is totally into those horatio hornblower novels, isn't that the master and commander series, no, the O'Brien wrote master and commander, hornblower novels came in the 30's i think, way before the O'Brien ones, and i think the protagonist is Jack Aubrey.
There are four major novel-cycles from the age of sail The Hornblower novels by Forrester. The Aubrey/Maturin novels by O'Brien The Bolitho novels by Alexander Kent The Lord Ramage novels by Dudley Pope. That's about 60 books, then I'll move on to the individual novels.
i couldnt get through it. no real story. its kinda like reading psalms. its a poem and its all over the place. just finished man in a gray flannel suit, not bad but not great. and man without a country by vonnegut. its a collection of thoughts basically, hilarious. "If I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, “Kurt is up in heaven now.” That's my favorite joke."--kurt is a humanist, btw
Anyone ever read "The Moviegoer" by Walker Percy? Thats one of my favorite novels along with "To Kill A Mockingbird".
