What are you reading right now?
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B.B. Hemingway
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Thanks fellas. I'll have to check a few of those out. One of my favorite times in American history to read about. Easy to appreciate all of their efforts, and courage (especially Franklin.... dude did everything).
beorach
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I just finished Skagboys by Irvine Welsh. I have read a lot of his stuff but never Trainspotting (though I loved the film). I think I had read one of his books before seeing it, too, but now I'm not sure I want to read it because of having seen it and already getting this prequel of sorts read. Marabou Stork Nightmares and Crime were probably my favorites aside from the latest. The Scottish/British slang takes some patience but I think it adds something. On a recommendation from some fantasy authors, I'm going to start Diana Gabaldon's Outlander today. I placed a hold on it several months ago and am sure there's still a line so I probably won't even get to finish it before it's due and they don't allow you to renew in that circumstance.
beorach
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Orson Scott Card sort of did that in Ender's Game, too, but I've never tried to look up whether any one person deserves the credit. I read something recently that gave William Gibson credit for coining the term, cyberspace.
beorach
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Pardon more necros but I think it's important to consider that much of the world isn't so advanced as we such that it's fair to judge them for being removed, to a lesser extent, from Biblical times. Couple that with how central violence is to our interactions within our spheres of influence and humanity's plight in the world makes more sense.Slaughtering villages in the name of the Lord. Seems a little hypocritical of them, but as you said, there is much more to the bible than that (Revelation is terrifying!)Yeah. I guess the violence stands out because I didn't remember how much killing the Jews did back in the Old Testament days. Life was pretty brutal back then.Ha! The violence is abundant in the good book, for sure....For violence, the Old Testament makes Medal of Honor video game look like a Disney movie. Much like the Middle East today, in fact.
I've been working my way through the good book for the past couple months. I'm a few pages away from Psalms right now.
Well, how is it?!!
I guess it goes without saying that there's a lot more in the bible than violence. I'm looking forward to reading the prophets following psalms/proverbs and then getting into the new testament.
B.B. Hemingway
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So.... What book ya readin'?Pardon more necros but I think it's important to consider that much of the world isn't so advanced as we such that it's fair to judge them for being removed, to a lesser extent, from Biblical times. Couple that with how central violence is to our interactions within our spheres of influence and humanity's plight in the world makes more sense.Slaughtering villages in the name of the Lord. Seems a little hypocritical of them, but as you said, there is much more to the bible than that (Revelation is terrifying!)Yeah. I guess the violence stands out because I didn't remember how much killing the Jews did back in the Old Testament days. Life was pretty brutal back then.Ha! The violence is abundant in the good book, for sure....For violence, the Old Testament makes Medal of Honor video game look like a Disney movie. Much like the Middle East today, in fact.
I've been working my way through the good book for the past couple months. I'm a few pages away from Psalms right now.
Well, how is it?!!
I guess it goes without saying that there's a lot more in the bible than violence. I'm looking forward to reading the prophets following psalms/proverbs and then getting into the new testament.
StPaulHusker
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ColoNoCoHusker
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Bought these a few years ago when they were banned in Arizona (Tucson School District). Finally got around to reading them after they were taken of the banned list...
Read this one a loooonnng time ago; reading again...
Read this one a loooonnng time ago; reading again...
NUance
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"Praying for Slack: A Marine Corps Tank Commander in Viet Nam" by Robert E. Peavey.
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Anyone here ever heard of, or read, this book? A friend of mine recommended it to me today. He was in some of the battles detailed in this book. Says the descriptions are pretty realistic.
StPaulHusker
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American Sniper
TGHusker
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A very good story about the 1st great election crisis (Forget Florida hanging chads - that was child's play in comparison)
A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign Paperback – June 10, 2008
by Edward J. Larson (Author)
Also reading this book. Keller does a good job discussing views (various religions, cultures, belief systems - including atheism) on the topic and presents strengths and weaknesses of the views. The 2nd half of the book - he makes it practical with the purpose of helping us as we individually walk through our own version of pain and/or suffering. How do deal with issue and go forward wt hope. Good book to go with the topic of ' God and Evil/Suffering' going on in the politics/religion forum. I just found this book a week ago and am about half way through it.
Walking with God through Pain and Suffering Hardcover – October 1, 2013
by Timothy Keller (Author)
A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign Paperback – June 10, 2008
by Edward J. Larson (Author)
Also reading this book. Keller does a good job discussing views (various religions, cultures, belief systems - including atheism) on the topic and presents strengths and weaknesses of the views. The 2nd half of the book - he makes it practical with the purpose of helping us as we individually walk through our own version of pain and/or suffering. How do deal with issue and go forward wt hope. Good book to go with the topic of ' God and Evil/Suffering' going on in the politics/religion forum. I just found this book a week ago and am about half way through it.
Walking with God through Pain and Suffering Hardcover – October 1, 2013
by Timothy Keller (Author)
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