What are you reading right now?

Discussion in 'Hobbies' started by Dani, Jul 6, 2017.

  1. RabbiKnife

    RabbiKnife Open the pod bay door, please HAL. Staff Member

    Just finished Walden.

    What a pompous, self-righteous little pseudo intellectual Mr. Thoreau was when he wrote that drivel.
     
  2. Cloudwalker

    Cloudwalker The genuine, original, one and only Cloudwalker Staff Member

    Have a number of books I am working on but mainly rereading Arrows of the Queen by Mercedes Lackey.
     
  3. IMINXTC

    IMINXTC Time Bandit

    If you are itching for a detailed, chronological rehashing of the Trump administration, including the campaign - or a brain aneurysm - this is the book for you.
    Nothing particularly relevatory, surprising or bombshelling here.
    Reads like a novel, however.
     
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  4. IMINXTC

    IMINXTC Time Bandit

    Apparently a re-read:
    "Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning."
    Jonah Goldberg, 2008
    A very good read, particularly helpful in defining the term "fascism," which seems to have taken on myriads of new meanings."
    A very accurate portrayal of the error behind leftists labeling rightists as fascists.
    Very enlightening history of the roots and progress of modern leftist idealism.
    Well written and eminently readable.
    On Kindle.
     
  5. teddyv

    teddyv The horse is in the barn. Staff Member

    I was reading some of the reviews of the book on it and most of the strongly negative opinions were taking the author to task on his definition of fascism. I have not read it myself so in no position to offer anything myself.
     
  6. IMINXTC

    IMINXTC Time Bandit

    Yeah, still working on the author's final definition myself.
     
  7. ProDeo

    ProDeo What a day for a day dream

    Have been reading some of the reviews as well, all these talks about impeachment, but as an outsider I can't see any hard evidence.
     
  8. TrustGzus

    TrustGzus What does this button do? Staff Member

    Several things as always. But one to note is

    Living Life Backwards: How Ecclesiastes Teaches Us to Live in Light of the End

    By David Gibson
     
  9. RabbiKnife

    RabbiKnife Open the pod bay door, please HAL. Staff Member

    Started reading Oliver Twist this morning.

    I just love sentences with 300 words in them. Like reading Paul.
     
  10. hisleast

    hisleast FISHBEAT!

    Atomic Habits by James Clear.
    One of the most influential books I've read in my life.
     
  11. פNIʞƎƎS

    פNIʞƎƎS Connoisseur of Memes Staff Member

    Looking at my bookcase to see what catches my attention.
     
  12. Liquid Tension

    Liquid Tension No, it's NOT a fish!!!

    The 4-Hour Workweek
     
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  13. פNIʞƎƎS

    פNIʞƎƎS Connoisseur of Memes Staff Member

    That would be awesome
     
  14. IMINXTC

    IMINXTC Time Bandit

    Can find nothing that interests me, lately. Going back to Tolstoy, whom i love, and Dickens - never tire of such. Clean my Kindle and start anew.
    (Anything but tv).
    Hemingway. Joseph Conrad.
     
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  15. Cloudwalker

    Cloudwalker The genuine, original, one and only Cloudwalker Staff Member

    Listening to The Hunchback of Notre Dame. (Audio book). Glad I'm doing it that way. Would never be able to get through it in the normal way.
     
  16. TrustGzus

    TrustGzus What does this button do? Staff Member

    There’s always watching the Disney version.
     
  17. Cloudwalker

    Cloudwalker The genuine, original, one and only Cloudwalker Staff Member

    That's what got me into "reading" the actual book.
     
  18. teddyv

    teddyv The horse is in the barn. Staff Member

    That movie contained probably most sexually suggestive song ever by Disney.
     
  19. TrustGzus

    TrustGzus What does this button do? Staff Member

    I never watched it.
     
  20. פNIʞƎƎS

    פNIʞƎƎS Connoisseur of Memes Staff Member

    SRSLY?
     

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