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  • SaintMarkSaintMark
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    Just finished reading my hardcover Tarzan 1914 & 1915 copy of Tarzan of the Apes & Return of Tarzan, both books are stille very readable and enjoyable as the first time I read them a long time ago. And reading an antique book always feels special.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Spiritualism and Theosophy
    SCIENTIFICALLY EXAMINED AND CAREFULLY DESCRIBED

    BY

    THE Rт. REV. C. W. LEADBEATER
    THEOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING HOUSE
    ADYAR, MADRAS, INDIA
    1928
  • TorgeirtrapTorgeirtrap
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  • Agent_99Agent_99 enjoys a spirited ride as much as the next girl
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    The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford. So full of people hiding their true feelings and going through life utterly miserable that I can hardly bear it.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    THE WORLD MOTHER AS SYMBOL AND FACT (Charles W. Leadbeater, 1928)
  • SaintMarkSaintMark
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    Finished Brom's Krampus and am now currently enjoying Alias the Saint by the brilliant Leslie Charteris whose hero has given the 007 series more inspiration than they would care to admit..
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    1896/1904
  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
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    One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey.
  • FoxRoxFoxRox
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    MaxCasino wrote: »
    One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey.

    I bought that one recently; yet to read it, but I’m quite interested as I love the film!

    I don’t read as often as I’d like, but I LOVE good books (reading and writing are a couple of my biggest passions), and I’ve recently gotten the urge to read some classic literature. I’m several chapters into Gaston Leroux’s The Phantom of the Opera, which has been a totally gripping read. I’ve long been a fan of the play / musical (I saw the off-Broadway play years ago and the 2004 film, both of which I enjoy a lot), but never gotten around to the original source until now. I haven’t seen the 1925 film either yet. I just love how spooky and ominous the setting is. Very tense and creepy moments.

    I’ll definitely be finishing it soon and probably move on to more works by Shakespeare and Chaucer for my college courses next. There are several classics I have in mind that I have bought and want to read that I haven’t before as well, such as Moby-Dick, The Count of Monte Cristo, and Dracula. As a side note my favorite book is probably George Orwell’s 1984, which I just adore every aspect about and hope it never stops being taught in schools.

  • Agent_99Agent_99 enjoys a spirited ride as much as the next girl
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    One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest is great, and so is Sometimes A Great Notion. My enjoyment of OFOTCN was greatly enhanced by reading Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, about Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, for a bit of background.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    VARIETIES OF PSYCHISM (J. J. Wedgwood, 1914)
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    A SOLITION AND ITS OWNED BIONS (AWARENESS AND MIND) by Kurt Johmann, 12th edition, 2017 (first edition 1993)
    if message_instance.special_handling_locate is GET_LOCATION_OF_BION_UID
    and this_CE is currently holding a bion /* It’s okay if this bion is asleep: if this bion is the wanted recipient, then want its location regardless of whether it is asleep or not. */
    and that bion qualifies as a recipient of the message /* Examine the message_instance and also that bion’s identifier block to
    determine this. */
    then
    reply_to_this_location_request_bion_uid(message_instance)
    return /* exit this routine */
    end if
    if message_instance.special_handling_locate is LOCATION_REPLY_FROM_BION_UID
    and this_CE is currently holding a bion that is not asleep
    and that bion qualifies as a recipient of the message /* Examine the message_instance and also that bion’s identifier block to
    determine this. */
    then
    process_location_reply_from_bion_uid(message_instance)
    return /* exit this routine */
    end if
  • SaintMarkSaintMark
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    Just finished The many lives of James Bond by Mark Edlitz which was an enjoyable and interesting read.
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    Reading Cosi fan tutti, by Michael Dibdin. Enjoyable so far, although too light for my usual tastes in crime fiction and the Italian characters too often come off as caricatures. Nice little allusions to Mozart's opera though.
  • CraterGunsCraterGuns
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  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
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    Just finished One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. What powerful writing! The movie did it justice, thankfully.
  • CraterGunsCraterGuns
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  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
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    CraterGuns wrote: »
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    Not to spoil the ending or anything, but the first are big and obsolete, and the latter just look good... 😉
  • CraterGunsCraterGuns
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    More or less true... The newest British battleships were kept in home waters, North Sea & Atlantic. The ones they used in the Med were refurbished/reconstructed WWI-era vessels.

    The same applies to most of the Italian ships as well -- reconstructed WWI vessels -- except for their two "modern" battleships launched just prior to Mussolini's declaration of war: Vittorio Veneto and Littorio. These were actually first-class battleships, as good as anything in the Allied navies (especially when fitted with radar, which only came after the clashes of '40-41, however).

    They were faster, and had longer-range guns than the British battleships of the Mediterranean Fleet. (The Brits still had the edge in hitting power, armor protection and crew training.) And yes, they were some very nice-looking ships.
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    The War of the Worlds. HG Wells of course. I'm a bit sad I didn't read it when I was a teenager. I rarely if ever read scifi. So my point of view is as an ignoramus, but I am tempted to agree with Anthony Burgess who said Wells may have been the only "proper" scifi writer who was a true author.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    GEORGE BUSH: THE UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY (Webster G. Tarpley, Anton Chaitkin 1991)
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  • JamesCraigJamesCraig Ancient Rome
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  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    THE STORIES OF THE MONTHS AND DAYS (Reginald C. Couzens, 1923)
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  • CraterGunsCraterGuns
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  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
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  • TorgeirtrapTorgeirtrap
    edited March 2020 Posts: 17,756
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    Just finishing reading the final chapters of John Le Carré's Call for the Dead, his debut novel, and the first appearance of the character of George Smiley.
  • Agent_99Agent_99 enjoys a spirited ride as much as the next girl
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    I'm a big Douglas Coupland fan, and 400+ pages should keep me quiet for a while.
  • JamesCraigJamesCraig Ancient Rome
    edited March 2020 Posts: 3,497
    https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/03/26/democratic-party-cannot-hold/

    This very intersting article about the future of the democratic party...
  • TorgeirtrapTorgeirtrap
    edited March 2020 Posts: 17,756
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    After finishing reading John Le Carré's Call for the Dead and Len Deighton's The IPCRESS File (which I'd been reading simultaneously with Call for the Dead), I've jumped straight to Deighton's second novel, Horse Under Water.

    In The IPCRESS File there's a lot of elements of keep track of, and so far, Horse Under Water is no different. I find it a bit easier to read than IPCRESS though; perhaps it flows just a little bit better. It's been very interesting up to this point.
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