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Spoilers What Book Are You Reading?
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Whoa. I wasn't paying attention and I had no idea I posted without completing my sentence. I was out with some friends. If you hadn't quoted my post I wouldn't have known!
Appreciate the recommendations, will check them out
Currently reading The Third Option, the 4th in Vince Flynn's Mitch Rapp series
I like reading a series of books, and these seem to be pretty good so far...
I just finished Divergent. <if you can't say anything nice...>
If you are looking for yet another-teen-angst-budding-romance-everyone-dies-dystopia-since-you-finished-the-hunger-games, this book is for you.
I thought it was okay, but probably won't finish the series, or see the movies.
If you are looking for yet another-teen-angst-budding-romance-everyone-dies-dystopia-since-you-finished-the-hunger-games, this book is for you.
I thought it was okay, but probably won't finish the series, or see the movies.
I read it about two years ago. I didn't bother reading the rest of the books. There are much better dytopian books out there.
More politics (and history)
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I have just received a recently published book written by Ben Judah with the interesting (and very topical) title of: "Fragile Empire - How Russia Fell In And Out Of Love With Vladimir Putin."
It received excellent reviews in the quality British media, and I am looking forward to sitting down with it and burying myself in the tome (a fat, heavy, hardback ..) .
I have just received a recently published book written by Ben Judah with the interesting (and very topical) title of: "Fragile Empire - How Russia Fell In And Out Of Love With Vladimir Putin."
It received excellent reviews in the quality British media, and I am looking forward to sitting down with it and burying myself in the tome (a fat, heavy, hardback ..) .
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
A guy I used to go to school with just published a novella. It's pretty good. But maybe i'm just partial because I'm kinda friends with him.
definitively not a always a fluid read, but undoubtedly one of the most important books in human history, if not the most important. which year's edition are you reading?
it is interesting that Darwin wrote this (in order not to get scooped by Wallace) in a rush, as a short Abstract of his 'big book' to follow.
i would highly recommend an annotated version, with modern contextualization.
if you can't go through it, you can try an Abridged version (just be careful on which one you pick, some are butcherjobs)
there is an excellent one based on the original 1859 edition, available as an audiobook narrated by Dawkins
read the first in the series and love the authors descriptions of central London. great story too!
I'm reading the Barnes & Noble "classics," published in 2004. If I'm reading the copyright page correctly, this B&N version was prepared using the original, first edition by Darwin.definitively not a always a fluid read, but undoubtedly one of the most important books in human history, if not the most important. which year's edition are you reading?
it is interesting that Darwin wrote this (in order not to get scooped by Wallace) in a rush, as a short Abstract of his 'big book' to follow.
i would highly recommend an annotated version, with modern contextualization.
if you can't go through it, you can try an Abridged version (just be careful on which one you pick, some are butcherjobs)
there is an excellent one based on the original 1859 edition, available as an audiobook narrated by Dawkins
definitively not a always a fluid read, but undoubtedly one of the most important books in human history, if not the most important. which year's edition are you reading?
it is interesting that Darwin wrote this (in order not to get scooped by Wallace) in a rush, as a short Abstract of his 'big book' to follow.
i would highly recommend an annotated version, with modern contextualization.
if you can't go through it, you can try an Abridged version (just be careful on which one you pick, some are butcherjobs)
there is an excellent one based on the original 1859 edition, available as an audiobook narrated by Dawkins
Excellent post.
I have always found it interesting that Darwin sat on his research (once he realised where his findings would lead him) and only published when Wallace wrote to him, knowing of his research, and explained that he would publish if Darwin didn't.
Re the prose style, well, that sort of over-wrought writing was very much the fashion and the norm in 19th century British writing. Personally - and I am an avid reader - I, too, can find it pretty hard going, and (and an expression of utter heresy, this, as I am from the British Isles), as writers, I find I actually prefer the plainer - yet extraordinarily elegant - prose style of the best American writers of the 19th century.
Along with DP, I'd recommend a good, annotated version of Charles Darwin's book; and yes, he is absolutely right. This book was explosive when it was first published; it is one of the most important and influential books in history, not just in the field of science, or extending vast areas of human knowledge.
Sounds extremely interesting and a very nice edition.
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What Book Are You Reading?
Anyone read 'The First World War' by John Keegan?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/First-World...MOK_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1409931391&sr=1-1
Any other recommendations on the subject?
Anyone read 'The First World War' by John Keegan?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/First-World...MOK_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1409931391&sr=1-1
Any other recommendations on the subject?
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There I agree with you, it is full with situations/language not regularly found in a book for children, but then, they're are addressed in the way an innocent/clueless/autistic child would face them, lending them with a sort of candor they would not have otherwise.
Maybe, or maybe I just wasn't that shocked by the language and therefore it didn't cause a strong impression on me (remember I live in the cesspit of the civilization). Then again, I tend to forget lots of things, my mind is disperse that way
What Book Are You Reading?
It could be that I was surprised and very shocked to read such language in a book intended for children. I wouldn't have been if I the book was written for adults though. But you're right, the narrator is after all an autistic fifteen year old and cannot lie so I think the author wanted to remind readers of that; that he cannot censor or change words he hears or situations as that would be considered not telling the truth.
There I agree with you, it is full with situations/language not regularly found in a book for children, but then, they're are addressed in the way an innocent/clueless/autistic child would face them, lending them with a sort of candor they would not have otherwise.
Maybe, or maybe I just wasn't that shocked by the language and therefore it didn't cause a strong impression on me (remember I live in the cesspit of the civilization). Then again, I tend to forget lots of things, my mind is disperse that way
It could be that I was surprised and very shocked to read such language in a book intended for children. I wouldn't have been if I the book was written for adults though. But you're right, the narrator is after all an autistic fifteen year old and cannot lie so I think the author wanted to remind readers of that; that he cannot censor or change words he hears or situations as that would be considered not telling the truth.
