05-02-2015, 04:03 PM
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Re: What books are you reading now?
Originally Posted by stevmk2
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I'm reading The Shadow of War by Stewart Binns.
I'm now on Odysseus - The Oath, a 2-parter by Valerio Massimo Manfredi, one of my favourite authors.
I'm hoping it's as good as most of the others I have read by him.
The Alexander trilogy was a detailed look at Alexander's awe-inspiring life. stevmk2
05-02-2015, 07:33 PM
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Re: What books are you reading now?
Originally Posted by Cookiecate
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You all put me to shame. You are reading clever stuff to eddukate your mind. Me I read sumfink borin to send me to sleep.
I think War and Peace might put me to sleep...
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08-02-2015, 05:38 PM
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Re: What books are you reading now?
The mind, when reading is a funny thing. When I was younger I read the Lord of the Rings even before it became popular. I read all of the Russian Classics including the Brother's Karamazov by Dostoyevsky and Madame Bovary the French writer Gustave Flaubert. One of the first books I read was a Tale of Two Cities and I know I was very young when I read that. I loved the Man in the Iron Mask.Now I am reading about people moving to Spain to breed Llamas. A pleasant enough easy read. However, some incredibly brain numbing literature passing as bed time reading is about all I can manage now. Good Grief even corn flake packaging is more of an intelligent read than some of the garbage that now I digest.
Why is this? has my brain become addled with life? or as I suspect, I have dumbed down with age.
08-02-2015, 06:32 PM
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Re: What books are you reading now?
Funny you should say this. I read a few books by Solzhenitsyn when I was in my late teens. In particular A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch, Cancer Wars, and the Gulag Archipelago, and I remember being incensed that the rest of the world was doing nothing about these things. Now I doubt I could get through the first few chapters.I think this is more because we have become used to our 'stories' coming in one or two hour visual chunks where we have no need to think or imagine stuff as it is all there laid out for us.
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