Lie Down With Lions - Ken Follett
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Lie Down With Lions - Ken Follett
I am reading this post right now and I am trying to read NOIVA JUDIA de Pedro Paixão, a light Portuguese book. I have just re-read some passages of the "Sun Tzu's The Art of War".
Great thread Carlos thank you.
Finished book one of the series Ashes of Eden
Now reading The Return
Star Trek novels co-written by William Shatner, Judith Reeves-Stevens, and Garfield Reeves-Stevens
The last book I've read was Hull Zero Three by Greg Bear.
Just got done reading The System of the World by Neal Stephenson.
Now reading The Gathering Storm (Wheel of Time) by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson. Been reading this series since I read book three 20 years ago. I guess Robert Jordan was determined to follow in his heroes' footsteps and died before finishing the series. What's with authors and not knowing how to finish? :!!
Started "The Key to Rebecca" by Ken Follett.
This thread has resurrected my interest in finishing Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series. Alas, I have to start fro the beginning since its been years since I read the first four.
And I curse those who murdelized Goodkind's work with that horrible TV series, The Legend of the Seeker.....
I read Triple as a teenager. Holy S. I can still visualize so much of that book. And this is with a crappy memory. ;)
I am reading Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfisnished Civil War by Tony Horwitz.
I just finished reading Star Wars : The Ultimate Visual Guide with my 8 year old :)
I am always reading people to write new things with old feelings. I am always reading me to try to understand how deep and serious are my commitments to other persons and to my God. I am always trying to be better everyday because sometimes I don't like what I read and want to change it.
I am always unsatisfied with the small details. So I will start reading a new book ...
Very Crazy Duke
I am reading Agamemnon from Lucius Annaeus Seneca, a good book from the start. This is the man of the known sentence
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That we use so often to cover our mistakes.
Read something of Seneca "The Young" for the times he saved you and you used that sentence. Maybe there are books and text of him on the Internet.
Finished reading "Inca Vol 1 - Princesse du Soliel", next I will read "Inca Vol 2 - L'Or de Cuzco".
I finished reading David A. Campbell, "Greek Lyric Poetry" and I am now reading "Asterix in Spain".
One thing about art, is no matter in what style and century is written, all art moves the human emotions and one thing that one day could capture the human spirit, will capture others spirits in the future, no man is so distant from other man that can not understand the feelings that powered him to write or sketched or painting or music his feelings.
But the main thing that moves me is to understand other humans on all times. I wish I could but I am still trying. I will try that while I am alive.
I just loved Tyrtaeus, son of Archembrotus, a Laconian or Milesian elegiac poet and pipe-player. It is said that by means of his songs he urged on the Lacedaemonians in their war with the Messenians and in this way enabled them to get the upper hand. He is very ancient, contemporary with those called the Seven sages, or even earlier. He flourished in the 35th Olympiad (640–37 BC). He wrote a constitution for the Lacedaemonians, precepts in elegiac verse, and war songs, in five books.
I am loving René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo. We are all there from kat to the crazy Duke. We are all there in my mind...
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Now I will sing another song.
The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
John F. Kennedy
A Citizen's Dissent
by Lane, Mark
Holt, Rinheart and Winston, 1968
O Conto da Ilha Desconhecida
The Tale of the Unknown Island
Jose Saramago
Nobel Prize
O Melhor de Mim
The Best of Me
Nicholas Sparks
Einstein's God
by Krista Tippet.
A good book with the subtitle of "Conversations about Science and the Human Spirit". A book easy to read, nothing heavy, as simple as E=mc2. Relativity speaking. :D
Natural Hazards: New York City vs. The Sea
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, scientists and officials are trying to protect the largest U.S. city from future floods
By Jeff Tollefson and Nature magazine
As the humbled city begins to rebuild, scientists and engineers are trying to assess what happened during Sandy and what problems New York is likely to face in a warmer future. But in a dilemma that echoes wider debates about climate change, there is no consensus about the magnitude of the potential threats — and no agreement about how much the city should spend on coastal defenses to reduce them.
More on: http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...ity-vs-the-sea
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
Abraham Lincoln
The hard cover release of The Far Side. As old as these are I still burst out laughing at some of them. The good old days....
I just read Gone Girl, very well written and quite disturbing at times.
Then you may like the fact that a film adaptation is already in the works ---> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone_Gi...tation_to_film
Several things, but most notably The Metabarons Ultimate Collection.
IMF Country Report No. 13/154
GREECE
June 2013
2013 ARTICLE IV CONSULTATION
http://www.imf.org/external/np/exr/countryfacts/grc/
It is very interesting to see how, the called helping funds, construct their theories and experiment them in countries destroying their economy and any capability of fast recovering. Portugal situation is not so different of Greece but they are making the same mistakes.
It is sad, very sad to see the unemployment and the sadness of the people in the streets ashamed and crushed by the actions of this new lords of the world and his way of seeing economy.
Escape From Freedom by Erich Fromm
http://www.setiusa.us/showthread.php...ll=1#post61840
Has anyone read any of Ray Kurzweil's books? Namely The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology or The Age of Spiritual Machines?
I suspect the cruncher crowd would love them- The Singularity is Near is my favorite book of all time.
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Churchill was awesome, no doubt !
This book here is the 1st edition from 1943 with the maps and great pictures.
Tregaskis was rushed home so the book could be printed ASAP.
It's good !
Better grok this one. :D
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...a_Strange_Land
The Creator is a science fiction novelette by author Clifford D. Simak. It was published in book form in 1946 by Crawford Publications in an edition of 500 copies. It had previously appeared in the September 1935 issue of the magazine Marvel Tales.
:rolleyes: I am reading old books. The books haven't changed but I did ... :p
Dune is a 1965 epic science fiction novel by Frank Herbert. It won the Hugo Award in 1966, and the inaugural Nebula Award for Best Novel. Dune is the world's best-selling science fiction novel and is the start of the Dune saga.
Set in the far future amidst a feudal interstellar society in which noble houses, in control of individual planets, owe allegiance to the imperial House Corrino, Dune tells the story of young Paul Atreides, the heir apparent to Duke Leto Atreides as his family accepts control of the desert planet Arrakis, the only source of the "spice" melange. Melange is the most important and valuable substance in the universe, increasing Arrakis's value as a fief. The story explores the multi-layered interactions of politics, religion, ecology, technology, and human emotion, as the forces of the empire confront each other in a struggle for the control of Arrakis and its "spice".
Herbert wrote five sequels to the novel Dune: Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune, and Chapterhouse: Dune. The first novel also inspired a 1984 film adaptation by David Lynch, the 2000 Sci-Fi Channel miniseries Frank Herbert's Dune and its 2003 sequel Frank Herbert's Children of Dune (which combines the events of Dune Messiah and Children of Dune), computer games, at least two board games, songs, and a series of prequels, interquels, and sequels that were co-written by Kevin J. Anderson and the author's son, Brian Herbert, starting in 1999.
http://www.amazon.com/Dune-Science-F.../dp/0441172717
This is probably the best review of a car ever. Although it could have been written about anything.
Jeremy is a hilarious writer, and this is awesome. Anything that ends with this is awesome, "And you can't appreciate the Jaguar F-Type without the Ford B-Max. In the same way that girls wouldn't swoon over Richard Hammond if he didn't present Top Gear alongside May and me."
http://www.topgear.com/uk/jeremy-cla...ion-2013-06-25
"The Fly" by Katherine Mansfield is about the conquest of time over grief.
A good short story.
The Gift (book)
The Gift is a short book by the French sociologist Marcel Mauss and is the foundation of social theories of reciprocity and gift exchange.
Mauss's original piece was entitled Essai sur le don. Forme et raison de l'échange dans les sociétés archaïques ("An essay on the gift: the form and reason of exchange in archaic societies") and was originally published in L'Année Sociologique in 1925. The essay was later republished in French in 1950 and translated into English in 1954, first, by Ian Cunnison and, in 1990 by W. D. Halls.
Mauss's essay focuses on the way that the exchange of objects between groups builds relationships between humans.
It analyzes the economic practices of various so-called archaic societies and finds that they have a common central practice centered on reciprocal exchange. In them, he finds evidence contrary to the presumptions of modern Western societies about the history and nature of exchange. He shows that early exchange systems center around the obligations to give, to receive, and, most importantly, to reciprocate. They occur between groups, not individuals, and they are a crucial part of “total phenomena” that work to build not just wealth and alliances but social solidarity because “the gift” pervades all aspects of the society: politics, economics, religion, law, morality, and aesthetics. He uses a comparative method, drawing upon published secondary scholarship on peoples from around the world, but especially the Pacific Northwest (especially potlatch), Polynesia (especially the Maori concept of the hau), and Melanesia (especially the kula exchange).
After examining the reciprocal gift-giving practices of each, he finds in them common features, despite some variation. From the disparate evidence, he builds a case for a foundation to human society based on collective (vs. individual) exchange practices. In so doing, he refutes the English tradition of liberal thought, such as utilitarianism, as distortions of human exchange practices. He concludes by speculating that social welfare programs may be recovering some aspects of the morality of the gift within modern market economies.
Where Is Woodstock?
by
Charles M. Schulz
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I am reading "A Short History of Progress" is a non-fiction book and lecture series by Ronald Wright about societal collapse.
The twentieth century was a time of runaway growth in human population, consumption, and technology that has now placed an unsustainable burden on all natural systems.
A small part of the book for you:
“ Things are moving so fast that inaction itself is one of the biggest mistakes. The 10,000-year experiment of the settled life will stand or fall by what we do, and don't do, now. The reform that is needed is not anti-capitalist, anti-American, or even deep environmentalist; it is simply the transition from short-term to long-term thinking. From recklessness and excess to moderation and the precautionary principle.
The great advantage we have, our best chance for avoiding the fate of past societies, is that we know about those past societies. We can see how and why they went wrong. Homo sapiens has the information to know itself for what it is: an Ice Age hunter only half-evolved towards intelligence; clever but seldom wise.
We are now at the stage when the Easter Islanders could still have halted the senseless cutting and carving, could have gathered the last trees' seeds to plant out of reach of the rats. We have the tools and the means to share resources, clean up pollution, dispense basic health care and birth control, set economic limits in line with natural ones. If we don't do these things now, while we prosper, we will never be able to do them when times get hard. Our fate will twist out of our hands. ”