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red solo cup

#1005
November 08, 2015, 04:56:46 PM
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth by John Muir.
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Bernadette

#1006
November 08, 2015, 05:57:24 PM
Quote from: red solo cup on November 08, 2015, 04:56:46 PM
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth by John Muir.

SO good! I listened to it from Librivox, and it was incredible! To think that his education was so thorough that even after such a huge gap, he was able to keep up in college! And he was so intelligent! I still have it on my ipod. :)
My Lord and my God.

red solo cup

#1007
November 09, 2015, 04:51:43 AM
Muir was so casual about the harshness of life in those days. When he was in school in Scotland it seemed that knowledge was acquired through beatings. And then in Wisconsin when he was digging the well for their farm. How his father would lower him down on a rope and then leave him there till the end of the day.
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Bernadette

#1008
November 09, 2015, 09:36:28 AM
Quote from: red solo cup on November 09, 2015, 04:51:43 AM
Muir was so casual about the harshness of life in those days. When he was in school in Scotland it seemed that knowledge was acquired through beatings. And then in Wisconsin when he was digging the well for their farm. How his father would lower him down on a rope and then leave him there till the end of the day.

While the father himself was inside, reading theological books and taking no part whatever in the farm work. That was what got me when I read that part. I'd never heard of such a system!
My Lord and my God.

LausTibiChriste

#1009
November 09, 2015, 10:10:26 AM
Millionaire Fastlane by MJ DeMarco
Influence by Robert Cialdini
Started Catch-22 today as well
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red solo cup

#1010
November 23, 2015, 05:09:00 AM
Put my back out last week and spent three days on the couch. In that time I managed to read:
Sphere by Michael Crichton. Not great. Not awful. Just OK.
Deviant by Harold Schechter. The biography of Wisconsin's favorite son, Ed Gein. Learned a lot I didn't know.
Faithful Departed: The Collapse of Boston's Catholic Culture by Philip Lawler. This was an excellent read and I highly recommend it for traddies and NOers alike.
non impediti ratione cogitationis

Lynne

#1011
November 23, 2015, 06:37:16 AM
Quote from: red solo cup on November 23, 2015, 05:09:00 AM

Faithful Departed: The Collapse of Boston's Catholic Culture by Philip Lawler. This was an excellent read and I highly recommend it for traddies and NOers alike.

I'm sorry about your back! One never understands how much their back is used till something bad happens to it.

I read that book when it came out. I thought it was very good then and would re-read it but I think I threw it out.  :( I should see if the library has it.
In conclusion, I can leave you with no better advice than that given after every sermon by Msgr Vincent Giammarino, who was pastor of St Michael's Church in Atlantic City in the 1950s:

    "My dear good people: Do what you have to do, When you're supposed to do it, The best way you can do it,   For the Love of God. Amen"

Jacob

#1012
November 23, 2015, 09:54:57 AM
Quote from: red solo cup on November 23, 2015, 05:09:00 AM
Sphere by Michael Crichton. Not great. Not awful. Just OK.

Mmmm, in high school I was a super big reader.  I blew through all of Crichton's paperbacks.  Sphere is a pretty good read.  I liked others better, but Sphere is classic Crichton.

Right now I am reading Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak.
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zork

#1013
November 23, 2015, 12:22:27 PM
Red Harvest (1929) by Dashiell Hammett.
Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat.

MilesChristi

#1014
November 23, 2015, 01:35:51 PM
Quote from: zork on November 23, 2015, 12:22:27 PM
Red Harvest (1929) by Dashiell Hammett.
Hammett or Chandler?
The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
    It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
    It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
    And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
    And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

And for all this, nature is never spent;
    There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
    Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs —
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
    World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

zork

#1015
November 23, 2015, 08:29:18 PM Last Edit: November 23, 2015, 08:31:00 PM by zork
Quote from: MilesChristi on November 23, 2015, 01:35:51 PM
Quote from: zork on November 23, 2015, 12:22:27 PM
Red Harvest (1929) by Dashiell Hammett.
Hammett or Chandler?

Well, so far I've only read Hammett's stories; RH is the first Hammett novel I've read anything of. I have not yet read any of Chandler's works though I own all of his novels and short stories (thanks to Border's closing sale in 2011). I have such a backlog of reading that I will eventually get to Chandler's works; I really anticipate reading up on the adventures of Phillip Marlow and the generic detectives that preceded him.
Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat.

Christina_S

#1016
November 24, 2015, 07:42:43 AM
Just finished To Kill a Mockingbird last night. Starting on The Decline and Fall of the Roman Church by Malachi Martin. Then on to The Grapes of Wrath.  ;D
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Bernadette

#1017
November 24, 2015, 09:30:14 AM
Was it your first time reading To Kill a Mockingbird? What did you think?
My Lord and my God.

LausTibiChriste

#1018
November 24, 2015, 03:09:36 PM
Quote from: Bernadette on November 24, 2015, 09:30:14 AM
Was it your first time reading To Kill a Mockingbird? What did you think?

Read the whole damn thing; didn't even tell me how to kill a mockingbird
Lord Jesus Christ, Son Of God, Have Mercy On Me A Sinner

"Nobody is under any moral obligation of duty or loyalty to a state run by sexual perverts who are trying to destroy public morals."
- MaximGun

"Not trusting your government doesn't make you a conspiracy theorist, it means you're a history buff"

Communism is as American as Apple Pie

MilesChristi

#1019
November 25, 2015, 12:19:51 PM
Quote from: Christina_S on November 24, 2015, 07:42:43 AM
Just finished To Kill a Mockingbird last night. Starting on The Decline and Fall of the Roman Church by Malachi Martin. Then on to The Grapes of Wrath.  ;D
Read East of Eden...it is the best
The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
    It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
    It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
    And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
    And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

And for all this, nature is never spent;
    There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
    Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs —
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
    World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.
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