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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2017 12:57:19 GMT
Wolf-Swordsman, interesting reading list. I have multiple cameras from different eras, even an old Polaroid one from my grandparents, but not that it is my oldest family heirloom camera. I have a few film 35 mm cameras, along with the newer up to date digital ones. I too read photography magazines and books, your mind never stops learning no matter how old you get, it is a muscle and needs the exercise. Love Tesla, was an Electronics Tech for most of my career so he absolutely fascinates me. I have a few books of my grandmother's from when she went to nursing school, they are quite fascinating to read. Times have changed since then. I get on tangents where I want to figure out things and I throw my self into the deep end and I sink until I can swim, understanding what the material is about, whether it is something about a new break through in science or an old one I am fascinated about. I am absolutely horrid in museums because I lose all track of time trying to take everything in. I read anything except for mysteries, I just can't seem to get into them. I always figure out who did it and I get bored and everyone my mother said was good I thought the writing was lacking. Love a sci-fi, horror (bit not gore,) eapiinage, history, math, photography, books that enlighten me, books that make me laugh, and books I can learn from. There are some wonderful ones mentioned here, I will have to check some out. Thanks all.
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Post by mmexis on Feb 15, 2017 17:22:23 GMT
Just finished Stranger by David Bergen. It's the story of a woman who works in a fertility clinic in Guatemala. She has an affair with the chief doctor there and becomes pregnant. The doctor's wife is one of the women who comes for fertility treatments. At first, she does not know about the affair. The doctor has an accident on his motorcycle while in Guatemala and is sustains massive brain injuries which affect his memory and necessitate that his estranged wife come down to get him and take care of him. She arrives at the same time as the clinic worker lover has her child....
I'll leave the rest to your imagination and to pique your interest to read the book. It's a well written and fairly easy read.
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Feb 17, 2017 21:42:10 GMT
Today I read issue 16 (August 1901) of The Phonogram. Like many issues it includes an ultra short story, this one is about a couple who put their phonograph records into their ice box to make them sound better (?!?). Also included are very brief biographies of two phonograph recording stars (neither of which I've heard of, and I listen to a lot of very old records) and various other things, including the list of new records for the month (one of these records, Good bye Dolly Gray by Edison Male Quartet, can be heard on the UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive). The magazine is public domain and can be read here: archive.org/details/Phonogram16
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2017 23:10:34 GMT
Eric, we don't actually use the term "hoser" or maybe they do somewhere I don't know about. The same with "take off, eh". We do say "eh" more than most and are, of course, known for apologizing. If you haven't read any authors I would suggest Margaret Atwood as the grand dame of Canadian literature. But people either like her or not. Perhaps her most famous outside of Canada book is The Handmaid's tale which was dystopian before dystopia became a thing. Recent prize winners (internatioal) have been Yann Martel (Life of Pi), Madeline Thien (Do not say that we have nothing). An excellent but really large book is A fine balance by Rohinton Mistry and, of course, the recently turned into a tv event The book of negroes. (which was published in the US under the title "someone knows my name") Reading The Handmaid's Tale now. Someone had recommended it several years ago and I wish I would have read it then.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2017 23:48:51 GMT
I am always reading a non-fiction book with a fiction book. Decided to take a break from Will Durant's massive 1200 page volume 'The Age of Faith' about 200 hundred pages into it. Learned alot about the 3rd and 4th century A.D. (certainly one of my last stops on the Tartis). Been really curious about the history behind the Vietnam War and found 'The Vietnam Experience' series, book 1 'Setting the Stage' to be as good a primer as could be found. It starts by talking about the fall of Saigon then goes way back to the history and culture of Vietnam. Have decided to settle on this Books board for the long-term, so hope to be hearing about what everyone continues reading in the future.
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Feb 18, 2017 4:01:35 GMT
I just read issue 17 of The Phonogram, published September 1901. I perhaps should explain it is a very short magazine. It is interesting as usual. I wanted to hear the records on the new records for the month list, but I can't find them online. It is public domain and can be read here: archive.org/details/Phonogram17
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Post by midnitevulture99 on Feb 19, 2017 3:26:46 GMT
Out of boredom, I started browsing through my older brother's collection of books and began reading Douglas Adams's "The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul".
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Post by mrdanwest on Feb 19, 2017 19:52:26 GMT
1) To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (finished) - 5 of 5 stars - Like Woolf's other stuff that I've read, it took me a day or so to get myself attuned to her stream of consciousness style; but, once I got there, I ended up liking this one better that either Mrs. Dalloway or Orlando. Sad and close to perfect. 2) Ubik by Philip K. Dick - I am a bit over halfway done and still trying to figure out exactly what is happening; but that is about par for the course with Dick. I've like his other stuff and trust that this one will come together for me as well. 3) The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco - Eco is one of my favorite writers but this is really just middle of the pack for me so far. It's an interesting take on language and memory and is keeping me engaged, but it's really wordy (even for Eco) and slow going in stops. Finshed Ubik (5 of 5) and The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (4 of 5) 4) Reader's Block by David Markson (finished) - 5 of 5 - An experiment "novel" that intersperses various seemingly almost trivial facts with a sort of narrative of a novelist trying to craft a book that is not quite coming to him. A quick read and very interesting. 5) The Known World by Edward P. Jones. - I am about 2/3 of the way through this Pulitzer Prize winning novel about slavery and free black slave owners in 19th Century Virginia. Feels sort of like he going for a Garcia Marquez sort of thing but without the same level of Magical Realism.
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Post by darknessfish on Feb 20, 2017 15:30:53 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2017 15:37:07 GMT
Looks great. I wanna read that !
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2017 17:34:36 GMT
I am reading a book about the History of Norway from about 10.000 years ago and up to the death of King Haakon V who died in 1319. The book is the first book in a 5 books series about the history of Norway.
The books is written by Karsten Alnæs
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Post by blurry1981 on Feb 21, 2017 1:00:59 GMT
The Ghoul Vendetta by Lisa Shearin. Pretty funny series.
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Feb 21, 2017 1:11:10 GMT
I forgot to mention that I read issue 18 of The Phonogram, published October 1901: archive.org/details/Phonogram18It features a very strange new age theory of using music to cure physical illness.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2017 1:13:45 GMT
I can see it used for mental illnesses.
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Feb 21, 2017 1:18:04 GMT
I can see it used for mental illnesses. Based on my own experience, yes (I usually listen to music to help with my intense depression), but physical illness seems a bit less likely...
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2017 1:37:19 GMT
I can see it used for mental illnesses. Based on my own experience, yes (I usually listen to music to help with my intense depression), but physical illness seems a bit less likely... Yes. Music is a wonderful way to help you get through the day sometimes
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Post by lostinlimbo on Feb 21, 2017 2:57:37 GMT
I've got Clive Barker's 'The Scarlet Gospels' lined up next. Been awhile since I touched one of his books. Looking forward in getting back into the hellraiser universe.
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Post by sov on Feb 21, 2017 3:14:22 GMT
Vampire Hunter D: Mysterious Journey to the North Sea. A collection of Astro Boy stories. And various comic books.
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Post by FilmFlaneur on Feb 21, 2017 12:55:12 GMT
On the e-reader Days Without End Sebastian Barry. This Costa prize winning western is written in a very deliberate style, to good effect, reflecting the background of the narrator. However I'm half way though and while entertaining enough, colourful and vivid, with an unexpected angle to the central duo, I don't think it will ultimately amount to much.
Upstairs: a number of books clutter the floor by the bed, which are 'on the go' depending on which one is reached for at the end of the day. Currently wading through the new Emily Dickson complete edition (Emily Dickinson's Poems: As She Preserved Them ), prompted by Terence Davies' new film that I treated myself to before Christmas. Dickinson's output was phenomenal over just a few years and manages to be extremely enigmatic and complex in a characteristic few simple words and dashes in a way that is fascinatingly modern. One is struck too just how Sapphic much of her writing is, mixed in strangely with an unorthodox religion or pantheism. Fascinating - both the work and the writer. This edition is the first to present the poems as she might have wished and to include variants - especially important for a writer who, by the end, was writing more and more without a final 'finish'.
Downstairs - The Story of Silbury Hill Leary & Field A slim but interesting book about the famous English prehistoric mound that is fairly close to Stonehenge which gives a full account of its history, the various attempts to explore inside and more recent archaeological work done on it. Silbury is the closest England has to a 'great pyramid' and the enigmatic mound is only recently giving up some of its secrets.
Sitting with this is the abridged South by explorer Earnest Shackleton, an account of his last expedition. South originally appeared around a hundred years ago and is a classic of the literature; this new edition introduces plentiful side notes on every page which reviews Shackleton's account in the light of modern historical research as well as including plenty of the striking photographs taken at the time by the expedition photographer. Like all idols (and Scott, his great contemporary and rival) Shackleton is revealed to have feet of clay, but remains a substantial figure in the history of polar exploration.
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Feb 21, 2017 13:06:09 GMT
I read issue 19 of The Phonogram, published November 1901. This was a magazine issued by Edison Records. Meh. Nothing notable in this issue, unless one counts a casually racist drawing of Zulus to be notable. The closest thing to a notable article in this issue is a criticism of Victor's (later RCA Victor) famous dog logo. As the writer points out, disc record players cannot record, so how is the dog listening to his master's voice? But Edison's cylinder record players could record, as the magazine was always quick to point out. It is the second weakest issue I've read so far, but anyway, it is public domain and can be read here: archive.org/details/Phonogram19
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