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A colleague had two review copies of this, she gave me one

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960 pages from now I am going to be (more) insufferable when threads turn political <grin>
 
I listen to books nowadays more than I read. My eyesight has been going bad ever since. Y head injury so it gives me headaches to read too much at once. So I’ve been listening to these.
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Porth's Pathophysiology or Lehne's Pharmacology for nursing care... along with other great textbooks. Once this semester is done, I will find something nice and enjoyable to read.
 
I’d like to recommend a book. If you like amateur astronomy or astronomy in general then you’ll love this book. I’ve listened to it several times now.
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stealth6 said:
I'm in the middle of one that a lot of folks here will probably love......

"How to Invent Everything - A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler" by Ryan North. Brilliant, funny, and actually very informative. The premise is this is a manual that is included when you rent a time machine, and you use it in case the time machine breaks stranding you somewhere in time before civilization has begun. With it you have all the necessary info to rebuild civilization from scratch. It guides you through everything thing inventing language, math, science, etc., on to agriculture, nutrition, medicine, then to technology, and engineering, to religion, philosophy, art, music, etc.

This allows you to bypass thousands of years at a time that it originally took us to figure some things out. Way fun, and pretty dang cool. Check it out, I bet some of you are going to love it.

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Checked on this at the local library. It's out and I would be 7th in line for it. I may just have to buy it.

I'm reading a couple of books right now. One is Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose (Band of Brothers and The Wild Blue). It's the story of Lewis and Clark's exploration of America back before it was America. I'm only a few chapters in. Lewis is gathering gathering provisions and men for his trip and receiving a lot of instructions on what information to bring back. He's just signed on Clark.

The other book is The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k. The basic theme is to manage your priorities and not sweat the small stuff. I've been hearing the same message for a decades, but this is a fun read and a refresher doesn't hurt.
 
Exactimator said:
Checked on this at the local library. It's out and I would be 7th in line for it. I may just have to buy it.

I'm reading a couple of books right now. One is Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose (Band of Brothers and The Wild Blue). It's the story of Lewis and Clark's exploration of America back before it was America. I'm only a few chapters in. Lewis is gathering gathering provisions and men for his trip and receiving a lot of instructions on what information to bring back. He's just signed on Clark.

The other book is The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k. The basic theme is to manage your priorities and not sweat the small stuff. I've been hearing the same message for a decades, but this is a fun read and a refresher doesn't hurt.
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Undaunted Courage is such a good read.
 
Vietnam: A History by Stanley Karnow, which was published in 1983 as a companion piece to the PBS Television series of the same name. 20th Century history has become my absolute favorite reading topic, because I now have enough of my own person history (I lived through more that half of the 20th Century) to relate a lot of it to my own life. When I was in college, Vietnam was on everybody's mind.
The other is The Ghosts of Gombe, by Dale Peterson. Also 20th century history, this relating to what went on at Jane Goodall's chimpanzee research project in Tanzania in the 1960's. Absolutely fascinating for all students of animal behavior, and only a little of this book actually talks about chimp behavior, the rest is about that most irrational of all apes, Homo sapiens. Not as well written as Karnow's book, which is a masterpiece, but still interesting.
 
The Case For Christianity Answer Book by Lee Strobel.

I know a few great folks that are Christians, and a bunch more folks that say they are Christians that are just plane ole horrible human beings.

Lee is NOT doing a good job of making the case, thus far.
 
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jlabrasca said:
Does the author know who sold him the thunderclappers?

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Yes, in fact there's a paragraph about them in the book. Lewis's medical advisor was Dr. Benjamin Rush. He was the big shot doctor of his time and also one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He patented the pills he named Rush's Pills, AKA Thunderclappers. He saw them as a cure-all, although I think today they'd be called snake oil. He sold Lewis 50 dozen of the pills for his expedition.
 
Alan Whitmore said:
Vietnam: A History by Stanley Karnow, which was published in 1983 as a companion piece to the PBS Television series of the same name. 20th Century history has become my absolute favorite reading topic, because I now have enough of my own person history (I lived through more that half of the 20th Century) to relate a lot of it to my own life. When I was in college, Vietnam was on everybody's mind.
The other is The Ghosts of Gombe, by Dale Peterson. Also 20th century history, this relating to what went on at Jane Goodall's chimpanzee research project in Tanzania in the 1960's. Absolutely fascinating for all students of animal behavior, and only a little of this book actually talks about chimp behavior, the rest is about that most irrational of all apes, Homo sapiens. Not as well written as Karnow's book, which is a masterpiece, but still interesting.
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In college in the early 90s I took a course on the History of the Vietnam War. It was a telecourse and we watched that series on PBS as a part of class. I remember learning so much from it and the class discussions twice a week.

My older brother took an American History class in high school in '80. He had a great teacher and the class was so well engaged they finished the required subject matter a week early. The teacher told them they could choose any subject in American History and she would spend the last week teaching them about it. The class unanimously chose the Vietnam War. The teacher flat out refused. It was still too raw after only 7 years.
 
The two fiction books I'm reading right now are:
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I am currently reading Bishop Fulton Sheen"s book "Go to Heaven".
It is a wonderful book loaded with insights and wisdom about living the faith.
 
I'm listening to the Broken Worlds series on audible. About the only time I have to enjoy books is during commute anymore.
 
Greg Bear: just finished War Dogs, in the middle of Killing Titan.
 
Bat-mite said:
I've read The Terminal Man
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I read that when it came out, just after 1972. Great read for a not quite teenager.

8thPaladin said:
Porth's Pathophysiology or Lehne's Pharmacology for nursing care... along with other great textbooks. Once this semester is done, I will find something nice and enjoyable to read.
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There are some amazing things to read in these books. My wife studied to be an ICU nurse years ago. I used to help her with the study and also read the text books for fun. That annoyed her a bit, but it also helped when she needed something explained. The human body is an amazing machine.
 
Ez2cDave said:
"The Throne Of Saturn" by Allen Drury
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LOVE IT! First read it in college when "the 80s" he speaks of were still in the future. Last time was just a few months ago; it's pretty dated but still a good read. I had originally planned to do L3 with a scale or semi-scale of one of the three Saturns in here, but ended up going with something much simpler.

Best -- Terry
 
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Found this in the pocket of a jacket that I last wore in March or April. Picked up at the page I marked then. I am also 5 or 6 stories into re-reading Neil Gaiman's Smoke and Mirrors but Dr. Wilson is better comfort in an absurd and cruel time.
 
Always like the Ender's Game series. Orson Scott Card has a (relatively) new book out called "Children of the Fleet". So far it has been pretty good.
 
read the 1st 3 books in the ringworld saga, and Space Cadet by Heinlein (for fun read the book and see how many things R.A.H predicted...in 1948!)
Rex
 
Rex R said:
read the 1st 3 books in the ringworld saga, and Space Cadet by Heinlein (for fun read the book and see how many things R.A.H predicted...in 1948!)
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I just listened to that on audiobook a couple of weeks ago and Red Planet today.

In Space Cadet near the start..Matt pulls his phone from his backback and called his father. Heinlein published it in 1948.

Kenny
 

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