quiXilver Posted March 17, 2019 #1776 Share Posted March 17, 2019 and nurture that doubt of any dogma that arises within science as well... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Pettytalk Posted April 8, 2019 #1777 Share Posted April 8, 2019 The Mistake Of A Lifetime, by Waldo Howard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrumanB Posted April 24, 2019 #1778 Share Posted April 24, 2019 Conan the Conqueror, R. E. Howard This the only Howard's novel-length thing and it's good. Conan is a king of Aquilonia here and has to fight a powerful wizard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amita Posted April 25, 2019 #1779 Share Posted April 25, 2019 The full title is Foresight: How the Chemistry of Life Reveals Planning and Purpose by Marcos Eberlin. Small book of only 170 pages or so, will come out middle of May. Only started reading it, but the amazing functioning of ion channels & water channels in part of the cell, is deep chemistry and beyond me. But later chapters will deal with bugs & people etcetera. Dr. Eberlin explores a gold rush of recent scientific discoveries that pose a grave challenge to modern evolutionary theory. Drawing on his expertise as former president of the International Mass Spectrometry Foundation, Dr. Eberlin uncovers a myriad of artful solutions to major engineering challenges in the biological realm, solutions that point beyond blind evolution to the workings of an attribute unique to minds — foresight. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newbloodmoon Posted June 14, 2022 #1780 Share Posted June 14, 2022 The Wheel Of Time series… Again, and no I don’t like the amazon show. It’s garbage, the show not the book series. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Desertrat56 Posted June 14, 2022 #1781 Share Posted June 14, 2022 I just bought Heroic Hearts an anthology edited by Jim Butcher and Kerrie L. Hughs. I am planning on starting it today as I took the day off due to the electrician coming (soon, I hope) to change the breaker box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Desertrat56 Posted June 14, 2022 #1782 Share Posted June 14, 2022 1 hour ago, newbloodmoon said: The Wheel Of Time series… Again, and no I don’t like the amazon show. It’s garbage, the show not the book series. I tried to read that series, got through book 3 when I gave up. For me a good story has the hero or protagonist in a better position than the start of the book and this one things just keep getting worse. It reminded me of Stephen R. Donaldson's Thomas Covenant series. I never finished that one either. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ouija ouija Posted June 14, 2022 #1783 Share Posted June 14, 2022 I'm reading 'The Night Guest' by Fiona McFarlane. It's about a woman living on her own in Australia, who may or may not have the beginnings of dementia. I've read it before but long ago enough to have forgotten most of the story. It's a very touching story; I totally get where she's coming from. Does anyone want my copy of 'The Way of Wyrd' by Brian Bates, for free? Abramelin recommended it but I couldn't get on with it. If you don't mind giving me your name and address I will send it to you . . . UK only. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newbloodmoon Posted June 15, 2022 #1784 Share Posted June 15, 2022 13 hours ago, Desertrat56 said: I tried to read that series, got through book 3 when I gave up. For me a good story has the hero or protagonist in a better position than the start of the book and this one things just keep getting worse. It reminded me of Stephen R. Donaldson's Thomas Covenant series. I never finished that one either. My younger self would say “keep reading, it gets better”, now I simply nod my head and accept that you got three books in before deciding that the series wasn’t for you. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abramelin Posted June 18, 2022 #1785 Share Posted June 18, 2022 On 6/14/2022 at 11:27 PM, ouija ouija said: Does anyone want my copy of 'The Way of Wyrd' by Brian Bates, for free? Abramelin recommended it but I couldn't get on with it. If you don't mind giving me your name and address I will send it to you . . . UK only. I did indeed recommend it, but that was for someone else though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ouija ouija Posted June 18, 2022 #1786 Share Posted June 18, 2022 15 minutes ago, Abramelin said: I did indeed recommend it, but that was for someone else though. Sorry, I should have been clearer about that. That was why I asked if anyone else would like it; just because I didn't get anywhere with it doesn't mean to say that someone else won't enjoy it as much as you did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abramelin Posted June 18, 2022 #1787 Share Posted June 18, 2022 41 minutes ago, ouija ouija said: Sorry, I should have been clearer about that. That was why I asked if anyone else would like it; just because I didn't get anywhere with it doesn't mean to say that someone else won't enjoy it as much as you did. Maybe this will help: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Hammerclaw Posted July 8, 2023 #1788 Share Posted July 8, 2023 (edited) Re-reading The Door Into Summer by Robert Heinlein. It has one of my favorite fictional felines by the name of Petronious the Arbiter. Edited July 8, 2023 by Hammerclaw 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ouija ouija Posted July 8, 2023 #1789 Share Posted July 8, 2023 A friend lent me a copy of 'Friends in High Places' by Donna Leon and I loved it so much that I bought eight more of her books from ebay. Fast as I finish one I start another . . . I'm on my fifth already! They are crime thrillers set in Venice, Italy with the detective Bennetti as the central character. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHaYap Posted July 8, 2023 #1790 Share Posted July 8, 2023 14 minutes ago, ouija ouija said: A friend lent me a copy of 'Friends in High Places' by Donna Leon... I've been hearing good things about her... ~ Anyhow... Since I am already here... Quote Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com › show The Greatest Works of Kahlil Gibran He is chiefly known in the English-speaking world for his 1923 book The Prophet, an early example of inspirational fiction including a series of ... ~ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alchopwn Posted July 8, 2023 #1791 Share Posted July 8, 2023 I'm reading "John Dies at the End" by David Wong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowsfall Posted July 16, 2023 #1792 Share Posted July 16, 2023 Can’t go by Lord of the Rings …..of subject anybody tell me why I’m not allowed to post emojis… cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowsfall Posted July 16, 2023 #1793 Share Posted July 16, 2023 Got the emojis sussed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hanumantool Posted November 1, 2023 #1794 Share Posted November 1, 2023 The Book of Mirdad: The Strange Story of a Monastery Which Was Once Called the Ark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Desertrat56 Posted November 1, 2023 #1795 Share Posted November 1, 2023 (edited) Just finished the first three Ann Cleeves Novels with detective Vera Stanhope. The stories in the books are better than the television show. Edited November 1, 2023 by Desertrat56 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antigonos Posted November 1, 2023 #1796 Share Posted November 1, 2023 19 minutes ago, Desertrat56 said: Just finished the first three Ann Cleeves Novels with detective Vera Stanhope. The stories in the books are better than the television show. I’ll have to check those out, thanks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Desertrat56 Posted November 1, 2023 #1797 Share Posted November 1, 2023 Just now, Antigonos said: I’ll have to check those out, thanks. You are welcome. I think the detail makes the difference. The books are long but easy to read. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antigonos Posted November 1, 2023 #1798 Share Posted November 1, 2023 (edited) The season of autumn naturally creates the perfect atmosphere every year for losing oneself in Gothic/Victorian ghost stories and mysteries. I love to sit by an open window on a darkened afternoon and listen to the wind rustle through the leaves, smelling the fall chill in the air or having the sound of falling rain as a backdrop as I read these timeIess tales. Currently revisiting The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins Carmilla by JS LeFanu, Valancourt edition The Complete Ghost Stories of M.R. James The Family of the Vourderlak by Alexis Tolstoy Dracula’s Guest by Bram Stoker By J.S. LeFanu: Uncle Silas, The Rose and the Key Both Dover editions of his complete supernatural tales, including The Room in the Dragon Volant The Adventure of the German Student by Washington Irving Nonfiction: Our Ladies of Darkness: Feminine Daemonology in Male Gothic Fiction by Joseph Adriano Vampyres: From Lord Byron to Count Dracula by Christopher Frayling Nightmare: The Birth of Victorian Horror by Christopher Frayling Edited November 1, 2023 by Antigonos 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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