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Posted: 00:33 - 19 Nov 2021 Post subject: |
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I am reading Twelfth Night right now A very good book, I would advise you, but still, it is better to familiarize yourself with the plot on the site https://freebooksummary.com/category/twelfth-night-essays first to be sure that you like this genre. Enjoy reading everyone and thank you for your recommendations too.
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Just about to finish Stephen King's IT (original '86 release book).
Yes indeed Beverley has sex with her 6 male friends in the sewers when they were 12, yes indeed. ____________________ CBT: 12/06/10, Theory: 22/09/10, Module 1: 09/11/10, Module 2: 19/01/11
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Posted: 16:44 - 19 Nov 2021 Post subject: |
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Reading Elric of Melniboné series, think I'm on the last book now. Good old fashioned sword and sorcery type stuff |
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Been rereading some climbing stuff, mostly Pete Boardman, Joe Tasker and Andy Cave. ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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Posted: 01:31 - 27 Nov 2021 Post subject: |
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Islander wrote: | chickenstrip wrote: | Been rereading some climbing stuff, mostly Pete Boardman, Joe Tasker and Andy Cave. |
I've got a load of climbing books - Chris Bonington spins a good yarn and I've got a few of his along with some stuff about Whillans and Brown, Herzog and quite a few others. |
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Still reading The Denial of Death, Ernest Becker.
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MarJay wrote: | So I went back to "Live and Let Die" by Ian Fleming. This part of the book is marginally less racist so it's easier to read. If he just stuck with the bad guys speaking English instead of a White British person's idea of what a Black criminal from Harlem would say (including the phonetic spelling - yikes) then it would be a hundred times better, and easier to read. |
Ah, a revisionist! That's how a lot of people were MarJay. Times and accepted norms change. Pointless complaining about how things were. Don't like it, don't read it, stick to new stuff maybe. Or we could ban it all... ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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chickenstrip wrote: | MarJay wrote: | So I went back to "Live and Let Die" by Ian Fleming. This part of the book is marginally less racist so it's easier to read. If he just stuck with the bad guys speaking English instead of a White British person's idea of what a Black criminal from Harlem would say (including the phonetic spelling - yikes) then it would be a hundred times better, and easier to read. |
Ah, a revisionist! That's how a lot of people were MarJay. Times and accepted norms change. Pointless complaining about how things were. Don't like it, don't read it, stick to new stuff maybe. Or we could ban it all... |
I think people would have thought it racist then tbh, and not only that the worst crime of all is that it's chuffing difficult to read. It's not revisionism, it's reading a work with todays lens. In fact, it's not even that, it's reading a published work that is... shit to be honest. Casino Royale was awesome, Live and Let Die is well known to be one of the weakest of the Fleming books. I don't think Casino Royale was a masterpiece of Homerian proportions either, but at least it was readable and entertaining. ____________________ British beauty: Triumph Street Triple R; Loony stroker: KR1S; Track fun: GSXR750 L1; Commuter Missile: GSX-S1000F
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Gotta say, I've never been much of a fan of the whole Bond schtick either. But then, I'm no great reader of fiction full stop, although there are a couple of classics I still enjoy.
But it's easy to think most people thought the same as we do back then. I don't think that's necessarily the case. Maybe they weren't outright racist, but much more than we accept today would have been shrugged over at most, or even barely noticed, and quite common in culture. It wasn't the same 'global' world back then that it is today, what with international social media etc. ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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I started reading The Positronic Man by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg, a fantastic book. What struck me more was how artificial intelligence goes beyond its program and becomes what it has always been - a person. I'm even thinking of writing an essay about this book, just maybe trying to uncover why the world treated him with contempt.
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I''m reading The 48 Laws of Power. Picked it up by mistake on Amazon.
Fascinating.
I'm only up to about law number 13, but its the first book in years that I have underlined phrases to remind myself about things I've read
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The life of Julius Caesar...again.
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 1 year, 203 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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