I didn’t think they’d be able to make a movie out of the book, but I think they found a good recipe here.
What's everyone reading?
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Cyclonepride
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Mixing in a book on Younger Dryas Impact Theory (the theory that an cosmic impact of some sort is connected with the extinction of megafauna in the North America somewhere around 12,000 years ago).
My interest in the distant past and geology has really been charged up by visiting Red Rocks last month.
My interest in the distant past and geology has really been charged up by visiting Red Rocks last month.
Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green
Engrossing, well-written and cleverly edited so that you can absorb a few paragraphs when your time is limited, rather than having to slog through a never-ending chapter before you can break away.
It's also somewhat reminiscent of James Burke's The Day the Universe Changed which illustrated how everything is related. In Green's work, everything is related to tuberculosis, from Stetson hats to the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in 1914.
What's more, Green provides a great deal of food for thought, in addition to clarifying the cause and effect of the disease.
This from Chapter 8, "The Bacillus":
Engrossing, well-written and cleverly edited so that you can absorb a few paragraphs when your time is limited, rather than having to slog through a never-ending chapter before you can break away.
It's also somewhat reminiscent of James Burke's The Day the Universe Changed which illustrated how everything is related. In Green's work, everything is related to tuberculosis, from Stetson hats to the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in 1914.
What's more, Green provides a great deal of food for thought, in addition to clarifying the cause and effect of the disease.
This from Chapter 8, "The Bacillus":
History is often imagined as a series of events unfolding one after the other like a sequence of falling dominoes. But most human experiences are processes, not events. Divorce might be an event, but it almost always results from a lengthy process -- and the same could be said for birth, or battle, or infection. Similarly, much of what some imagine as dichotomous turns out to be spectral, from neurodivergence to sexuality, and much of what appears to be the work of individuals turns out to be the work of broad collaborations. We love a narrative of the great individual whose life is shot through with major events and who turns out to be either a villain or a hero, but the world is inherently more complex than the narratives we impose upon it, just as the reality of experience is inherently more complex than the language we use to describe that reality.
Best non-fiction work I've read in a while.
Started a fantasy series, Heirachy, finished The Will of the Many, about halfway through the Strength of the Few, has some definite Brandon Sanderson vibes.
About half way through the 5th book in Sanderson's Storm light Archive. It's great so far. Not sure if he'll ever beat Words of Radiance but I would put this one 2nd best to it in the series.
I'm on book 4 of the Lightbringer Series by Brent Weeks and really enjoying it.
I finished Abundance it was pretty good...and smart.
Anyone read the Drizzt Do'Urden books? I am reading the NeverWinter Saga right now. I've not really read anything after that. If this is your genre, these books, especially the early ones, are AMAZING. The authors writing style is so cool.
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Anyone read the Drizzt Do'Urden books? I am reading the NeverWinter Saga right now. I've not really read anything after that. If this is your genre, these books, especially the early ones, are AMAZING. The authors writing style is so cool.
The Legend of Drizzt Books in Order: A Reader's Guide | D&D Books
R.A Salvatore’s The Legend of Drizzt series remain incredibly popular, with 40 published novels. We break out the best way to read these books in order.
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Cyclonepride
Thought Police
I'm on my who knows how many times through The Lord of the Rings. I've read at least five times through on Kindle, and have or have had several sets of the books
TRYING to read more now that I finished my MBA last year and should read more than just on vacation.
I read this a few years ago and loved it.
A-10 pilot that was nearly shot down
I just finished JJ Moses Book which was good
I read this a few years ago and loved it.
A-10 pilot that was nearly shot down
I just finished JJ Moses Book which was good
Just finished Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz. Author randomly hooks up with a couple of civil war reenactors and ends up on a 3 year road trip of significant Civil War sites and cities. Really interesting on how the civil war shaped and still shapes peoples attitudes in the South.
I read The Wager by David Grann. It’s about a British ship that was shipwrecked and what happened to the crew after and was so good.
Right now I’m reading a book that goes into the nitty gritty of Victorian London and is really good
Right now I’m reading a book that goes into the nitty gritty of Victorian London and is really good
I’m reading the Dungeon Crawler Carl series, just finished the first book. Anyone else read those?
Been following him for years, 8th book is coming out in May
I'm glad I'm not the only one. Mrs. Velo gives me a hard time about how many times I have read it through. But it is my comfort/escape when I am having a hard time and getting really down. I have read it many times since junior high school.
My last six "reads"
Lewis and Clark: Partners in Discovery
A history of the Missourri River
Adventures of a Mountain Man: The Narrative of Zenas Leonard
Sketch of the Life of "Chee-Ho-Carte" Or the Five Scalps
Five Scalps: The Story of Edward Rose
My People the Sioux
Narcissa Whitman - Diaries and Letters 1836
Fifty Years On The Trail: The True Story of John Y. Nelson, Frontiersman, Scout, and Guide
The White Indian Boy: The Story of Uncle Nick Among the Shoshones
Wicked River: The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild
--Get my nightly dose of early 19th century old west fix.--
Lewis and Clark: Partners in Discovery
A history of the Missourri River
Adventures of a Mountain Man: The Narrative of Zenas Leonard
Sketch of the Life of "Chee-Ho-Carte" Or the Five Scalps
Five Scalps: The Story of Edward Rose
My People the Sioux
Narcissa Whitman - Diaries and Letters 1836
Fifty Years On The Trail: The True Story of John Y. Nelson, Frontiersman, Scout, and Guide
The White Indian Boy: The Story of Uncle Nick Among the Shoshones
Wicked River: The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild
--Get my nightly dose of early 19th century old west fix.--
