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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2019 19:28:18 GMT -5
Birds of Pray: The Story of the Philadelphia Eagles' Faith, Brotherhood, and Super Bowl Victory
Very good book so far
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Post by Speagles84 on Feb 10, 2019 18:51:38 GMT -5
PE Civil Reference Manual
Very informational, slowly reaching a point in my life where I don't care about how much more knowledge I attain, rather I'd have more life experience. But its needed to further my career
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Post by Moron on Mar 10, 2019 9:39:03 GMT -5
For those who enjoy Lord of the Rings or A Song of Ice and Fire. I highly recommend Magician by Raymond E. Fiest; written in the 1980s it has considerable similarities to Lord of Rings in it's building blocks of worldbuilding while also creating and expanding on a rich, vibrant and complex world of magic, war, culture and mythology. There is also the Riftwar Trilogy (Magician, Silverthorn and A Darkness at Sethanon) although you could read Magician by itself easily. I've read it a couple of times when I was 13-14 years old and would put it (and the trilogy) close to Lord of the Rings. It does have a distinctly different style, focusing more on mythology and magic than LOTR.
At the moment I'm reading "The Third Reich in History and Memory" by Richard J. Evans; a very well reviewed critique on modernist essays of the Third Reich. Essentially the author "examines historical perspectives on the Third Reich and how they bring dividends but also offers a critical viewpoint on the ways they are changing our perception of the period."
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Post by Ariete on Mar 10, 2019 13:50:57 GMT -5
1917. A book by three Finnish front-line historians explaining the situation before the declaration of independence, and how everything which could go wrong went wrong leading up to the civil war in 1918.
I got it for Christmas, but haven't had time to read it before this.
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Post by Nidaros on Mar 11, 2019 16:34:19 GMT -5
The Dream of America. The emigration from Norway 1825-1900. It's about how the immigrants from Norway met America in those years over there, how did they fare. Many actually died from diseases like Malaria. Others were tricked by agents to buy poor land. But most of them eventually did build a new life. The first settlement of some size (hundreds) and with success (not the first of all) seems to have been in Wisconsin.
But some early immigrants did go to Missouri, some even to Texas, but more to Illinois and New York.
Of course the very first was only visit, 1000 AD in NF and probably a little further south.
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Post by Hiromant on Apr 4, 2019 12:21:03 GMT -5
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Post by Donar on Apr 9, 2019 14:55:38 GMT -5
A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman
Interesting book about the Hundred Years' War and the Black Death.
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Post by Moron on Apr 9, 2019 18:55:04 GMT -5
Oh yeah my mum has recommended that to me Donar but i've never read it. At the moment for university I'm reading Continental Extensional Tectonics by M.P Howard, J.F Dewey and P.L Hancock. A series of conferences turning into a geological book about the process and minor processes relating to extension of the earth's crust.
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Post by Donar on Apr 16, 2019 10:53:47 GMT -5
Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq.
Very good book so far!
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Post by Hiromant on May 25, 2019 2:52:22 GMT -5
Magicians of the Gods by Graham Hancock. A book about lost ice-age civilizations who may have been more advanced than we think.
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Post by Ariete on May 25, 2019 3:11:16 GMT -5
Kjell Westö - Där vi en gång gått
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Post by Ariete on May 25, 2019 4:03:48 GMT -5
Magicians of the Gods by Graham Hancock. A book about lost ice-age civilizations who may have been more advanced than we think.
Fictional civilisations.
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Post by Hiromant on May 25, 2019 4:17:19 GMT -5
Magicians of the Gods by Graham Hancock. A book about lost ice-age civilizations who may have been more advanced than we think.
Fictional civilisations.
I can count on you to go with the mainstream each and every time. |
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Post by Ariete on May 25, 2019 4:55:56 GMT -5
I can count on you to go with the mainstream each and every time.
The mainstream is usually the correct one in research. Hancock is one of the most famous pseudohistorians out there and widely discredited.
I have read his Fingerprints of the Gods, and while he can tell a fascinating story, the hypothesises he bring forward are without any critical historical research.
The friend I borrowed the book from was on a SA backpacking trip and visited the nazca lines often featured as "evidence" of alien astronauts, including Hanckock, and are represented that the lines would be impossible to create without an aerial view. However, when he was there, it was clearly possible to see the overview from the nearby hills, and drop instructions to the ground from there. All mystery of the lines vanished when you were actually there.
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Post by srfoskey on May 25, 2019 17:42:04 GMT -5
The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu.
It's the second book in a sci-fi trilogy. It's kind of cool in that it's written by a Chinese author, so it has a bit of a different cultural context from most science fiction.
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Post by Donar on Jun 26, 2019 13:04:00 GMT -5
To Have or to Be? by Erich Fromm
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Post by Donar on Aug 27, 2019 14:05:12 GMT -5
Walden by Henry David Thoreau.
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Post by nei on Aug 28, 2019 13:20:22 GMT -5
Walden by Henry David Thoreau. how do you like it? Feel like it's something I ought to read, given my tastes and views. But worry it comes off as silly and self-indulgent (he's rejecting industrial civilization while privileged enough he'll always get benefits from it; his outdoor trips were just escapes) |
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Post by Donar on Aug 28, 2019 14:20:47 GMT -5
Walden by Henry David Thoreau. how do you like it? Feel like it's something I ought to read, given my tastes and views. But worry it comes off as silly and self-indulgent (he's rejecting industrial civilization while privileged enough he'll always get benefits from it; his outdoor trips were just escapes) I'm just through the first 50 pages, so I can't say much. So far I quite like it as it endorses my thoughts and feelings, some statements can be seen as platitudes but probably weren't back then. |
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Post by Babu on Aug 29, 2019 4:41:49 GMT -5
I finished The Malazan Book of the Fallen fantasy series two weeks ago. Apart from the ninth book all ten books stayed consistently good which is pretty rare for 10000 page fantasy series where they usually start to fall apart toward the end. It was a good series of books, but most of the time it isn't a great page turner. Language is very complicated and it's not easy reading so you have to slow down your reading to understand. Also, all the chapters are 1-2h long, which for someone like me who can't stop mid-chapter, makes reading the books a little daunting. It's easier to keep reading chapters when you know starting a new chapter is only going to require 20-30 minutes of reading.
It's very similar to A Song of Ice and Fire, but with more overt magic and just plain worse in every way. That doesn't say much though considering ASOIAF is consistently ranked as the best fantasy series of all time.
Good series that will keep you occupied for a very long time.
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