Finally getting back into reading pretty regularly
About halfway done with this one, enjoying it:
About halfway done with this one, enjoying it:
Working my way through the book series before starting the TV show
I liked it a lot. It’s a page-turner, but still good literature with lots of layers and symbolism to unravel.
This is tremendous, pretty tough read though. A lot of the public narrative on the killings is false. This also gets into the psychology of the killers, which I found fascinating.
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Rereading the Stormlight Archive. Lots I missed the first read thru. Hope I remember it all when book 5 comes out sometime in the next year or so.
Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy. Dug it out after Russia invaded Ukraine...
Loved the stormlight series but I've been trying to get into this since it came out. SO FREAKING SLOW. The stories that have been expanding over two books just keep getting more intricate. I've pretty much given up on it after 400 pages. The 1800s version of changing the channel I guess.
Two depending on my mood
A Dark History: The Kings & Queens of Europe - Brenda Ralph Lewis
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Heinlein
A Dark History: The Kings & Queens of Europe - Brenda Ralph Lewis
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Heinlein
I have gone back and started to reread this one
It is basically a recounting of the Scottish Enlightenment, but it sure puts a lot of stuff in perspective, even religion. In the end it is a sort of pre-history of the United States:
From Goodreads:
'It's one of the eternal mysteries why so much of the modern world seems to have come out of this remote, rainy corner on the edge of Europe. Most people will point to the technology – television, telephones, macadamised road surfaces, pneumatic tyres, the bicycle, penicillin, Buckfast. But even more important were the new concepts and attitudes that made it all possible. For two hundred years, from the start of the eighteenth century to the end of the nineteenth, Scotland churned out ideas at a ridiculous pace: David Hume remade empiricist philosophy, Adam Smith invented economics, Francis Hutcheson invented modern liberalism, James Hutton invented modern geology, Walter Scott invented modern fiction…. "
(I think the publisher came up with the title, thinking that "A History of the Scottish Enlightenment" would not have sold as many copies.)
It is basically a recounting of the Scottish Enlightenment, but it sure puts a lot of stuff in perspective, even religion. In the end it is a sort of pre-history of the United States:
From Goodreads:
'It's one of the eternal mysteries why so much of the modern world seems to have come out of this remote, rainy corner on the edge of Europe. Most people will point to the technology – television, telephones, macadamised road surfaces, pneumatic tyres, the bicycle, penicillin, Buckfast. But even more important were the new concepts and attitudes that made it all possible. For two hundred years, from the start of the eighteenth century to the end of the nineteenth, Scotland churned out ideas at a ridiculous pace: David Hume remade empiricist philosophy, Adam Smith invented economics, Francis Hutcheson invented modern liberalism, James Hutton invented modern geology, Walter Scott invented modern fiction…. "
(I think the publisher came up with the title, thinking that "A History of the Scottish Enlightenment" would not have sold as many copies.)
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