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Post by mln59 on Apr 5, 2019 14:28:15 GMT -5
Forced reading via law school and a legal career. even when you regained control over your choice of reading material? |
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Post by Orpheus on Apr 5, 2019 14:47:43 GMT -5
Forced reading via law school and a legal career. even when you regained control over your choice of reading material? it's still not the same, but I have Oryx and Crake sitting on my coffee table just willing me to pick it up. I expect it might jumpstart my old passion of reading several books a month (depending on length). |
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Post by ironhammer on Apr 5, 2019 18:43:40 GMT -5
Whenever I read engineering type books, I don’t get dazzled. I’d read the descriptions including how they built such-and-such and most of the time, I’m thinking, yes that makes sense, yes, I’d do it that way, too. I follow along...and there’s no fascination. I’ve lost the sense of wonder. Hmmmm...so what other type of non-fiction genre books are you interested in? History? Biographies? Books on certain animals? Self-improvement books? True crime? Conquer-impossible-odds stories? |
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Post by Wolfgang on Apr 5, 2019 19:14:10 GMT -5
Whenever I read engineering type books, I don’t get dazzled. I’d read the descriptions including how they built such-and-such and most of the time, I’m thinking, yes that makes sense, yes, I’d do it that way, too. I follow along...and there’s no fascination. I’ve lost the sense of wonder. Hmmmm...so what other type of non-fiction genre books are you interested in? History? Biographies? Books on certain animals? Self-improvement books? True crime? Conquer-impossible-odds stories? All kinds. I'm open to many things. YES: History True Crime Religion Memoirs Politics Some science Some engineering (but as I said, it no longer holds any fascination with me because I used to be an engineer and nothing seems new) True Mysteries (is this a genre?) Some biographies Books about stuff (e.g., money laundering) NO: Self-Improvement Sports |
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Post by mikegarrison on Apr 5, 2019 20:16:44 GMT -5
Ever read "South", by Ernest Shackleton?
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Post by Wolfgang on Apr 5, 2019 20:22:42 GMT -5
Ever read "South", by Ernest Shackleton? I know about it. I saw the documentary about the Endurance. I feel like I know the story already. The book probably reveals more gruesome or harrowing details, I bet. |
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Post by mikegarrison on Apr 5, 2019 20:24:07 GMT -5
Ever read "South", by Ernest Shackleton? I know about it. I saw the documentary about the Endurance. I feel like I know the story already. The book probably reveals more gruesome or harrowing details, I bet. It's a good book. 100 years old this year. |
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Post by mln59 on Apr 6, 2019 7:38:04 GMT -5
Ever read "South", by Ernest Shackleton? reminds me of "the last place on earth" by roland huntford. it describes the race to the south pole between roald amundsen and robert scott. |
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Post by mikegarrison on Apr 6, 2019 13:16:28 GMT -5
Ever read "South", by Ernest Shackleton? reminds me of "the last place on earth" by roland huntford. it describes the race to the south pole between roald amundsen and robert scott. Plenty of books about that time, but not so many actually written (or dictated to a ghostwriter, in the case of South) by someone who was there. Apparently most of Shackleton's benefactors forgave his debts after the expedition (and WW1!), but one of his main backers did not. So he wrote South and went on tour to cover his expenses. |
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Post by guest2 on Apr 6, 2019 16:50:38 GMT -5
Echo Evicted. Its an easy read about a compelling topic.
To the end of June is about foster care and how it works in practice.
1491 is about the Americas and what was actually here before Europeans arrived in large numbers. I especially enjoyed the parts about the degree to which North American flora and fauna were actively managed and how many things Europeans perceived as part of the natural state of the land were actually consequences of an artificially maintained equilibrium being removed by the introduction of disease.
Reign of Error is a convincing takedown of various educational initiatives including types of testing and charters and has some very interesting stuff about how much damage people like Bill Gates and his ilk have done by making stupid assumptions about a subject they didn't and don't understand.
And Twilight of Empire about the fascinating Meyerling scandal is excellent
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Post by Wolfgang on Apr 6, 2019 17:19:53 GMT -5
Echo Evicted. Its an easy read about a compelling topic. To the end of June is about foster care and how it works in practice. 1491 is about the Americas and what was actually here before Europeans arrived in large numbers. I especially enjoyed the parts about the degree to which North American flora and fauna were actively managed and how many things Europeans perceived as part of the natural state of the land were actually consequences of an artificially maintained equilibrium being removed by the introduction of disease. Reign of Error is a convincing takedown of various educational initiatives including types of testing and charters and has some very interesting stuff about how much damage people like Bill Gates and his ilk have done by making stupid assumptions about a subject they didn't and don't understand. And Twilight of Empire about the fascinating Meyerling scandal is excellent You had me at "easy read." Seriously, these all sound great! |
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Post by Wolfgang on Apr 12, 2019 15:06:40 GMT -5
My library has notified me that one of the books I requested via interlibrary loan is ready for pickup. It looks like I'll be reading Answer to Job first after I pick it up on Sunday.
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Post by mln59 on Apr 12, 2019 16:32:12 GMT -5
My library has notified me that one of the books I requested via interlibrary loan is ready for pickup. It looks like I'll be reading Answer to Job first after I pick it up on Sunday. how much experience do you have reading Jung?
i had read maybe 2 or 3 things before i picked up answer to job.
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Post by Wolfgang on Apr 12, 2019 16:34:10 GMT -5
My library has notified me that one of the books I requested via interlibrary loan is ready for pickup. It looks like I'll be reading Answer to Job first after I pick it up on Sunday. how much experience do you have reading Jung? i had read maybe 2 or 3 things before i picked up answer to job.
I took a philosophy course in college. I think I read Jung. I remember reading all the great minds in philosophy and writing several papers about the readings. I don't remember the readings being all that difficult (or easy). That's the extent of my memory. It's all blank after that. |
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Post by mikegarrison on Apr 12, 2019 16:42:15 GMT -5
How hard can it be to read Jung? Only four letters. Only one of them even a vowel. "ng" is the trickiest bit, but it's not all that hard.
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