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The Meat man wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 28, 2023 5:19 pm

Just finished reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy.
I don't think I've ever read a book more weighted with hopelessness, grief, loss, horror, brutality, and despair.

Outer Dark by McCarthy may top it.

RLR wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 15, 2024 6:20 am

The Meat man wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 28, 2023 5:19 pm

Just finished reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy.
I don't think I've ever read a book more weighted with hopelessness, grief, loss, horror, brutality, and despair.

Outer Dark by McCarthy may top it.

Really? Never heard of that one.

Really interesting stuff. I've read a lot of books like "Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong" and loved them. This book is similar to those but covers the Bible obviously. Points out stuff like how there are two different creation accounts in Genesis, how apples were never mentioned as the specific fruit Eve ate, and does it's best to reconcile biblical tales with what archaeologists know about that time period in the near east.

The sequel to Canticle for Leibowitz wasn't nearly as good as the first book, and it felt like it dragged on. I'm flying through this one in comparison.

I picked up the Nag Hammadi library for a mere $6 at a used book store on my wayto work today. That's up next.

Nanosystems!

Nanosystems is the big mechanical molecular engineering textbook. We need new updated versions and we need a Picosystems and Femtosystems.

I've been working my way through Inferno: The World at War 1939-1945 by Max Hastings. It has been a very depressing book, but very interesting as well.

From the Italian Campaign: edit: I've also been concurrently reading Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick. A very interesting alternative narrative to read at the same time as the true history.

that's a powerful excerpt. thanks for sharing.

Just finished Cosmos, Creator, and Human Destiny by Dave Hunt. Excellent book.

Just started Maynard Solomon's biography of Beethoven.

vivi wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 18, 2024 3:47 pm

Interesting - I like the format. What version?

Just finished this one. Great read.

ESV.



It's nice having such a powerful read in a compact form. I have the full Bible on my phone but I still prefer reading off paper.

I've been meaning to look for other books made by them. I'd like to get more in this format.

Been reading a lot of Annie Jacobsen who compiles declassified information into various books.

Currently reading: Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PWHZK2H?pl ... 2kvBm5olEg

not reading it yet, just came in the mail.



I love what kindles and amazon has done to used book prices.

Working on The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien.

It is my first time reading LOTR and so far it is much more engaging than I anticipated.

miohin wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 21, 2024 7:34 am

Working on The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien.

It is my first time reading LOTR and so far it is much more engaging than I anticipated.

Awesome! The movies are great, but the books are just as good, if not better. I've read the trilogy at least 3 times.

The Meat man wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 21, 2024 5:03 pm

miohin wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 21, 2024 7:34 am

Working on The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien.

It is my first time reading LOTR and so far it is much more engaging than I anticipated.

Awesome! The movies are great, but the books are just as good, if not better. I've read the trilogy at least 3 times.

Definitely!!

I’ve just finished

Operation Pedestal by Max Hastings. This is an account of the near suicidal relief shipping convoy to Malta in WW2. Check out photos of the US built tanker Ohio on its arrival. It had 2 crashed enemy bomber planes hanging off it…. The elderly janitor in my workplace c2000 was a rating on one of the destroyer escorts, and my 95 yo father sailed on one of the surviving ships in the 50’s, Brisbane Star, with an engineer who was decorated for his bravery.

The Promised Land by Erich Maria Remarque, author of All Quiet on the Western Front. This is a semi autobiographical novel of German, mostly Jewish, refugees in New York in the early 40’s, very powerful, and depressingly current.

I picked up a copy of The Gulag Archipelago, just haven't had time to start it.

Has anyone read the book CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA and the secret history of the sixties?