What Are You Reading?

[DrT999]

Slowly reworking my way through Gibbon -- it was more digestible 40 years ago in grad school!

 

[MLBbreton]

Got these off amazon last week, both great. The Bubishi one is really in-depth.



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Look up Chin Na. You'll like that if these are a hit.
If you're looking for sheer fighting look for Vale Tudo.
Understand on the street the ground can be a fried or foe. Depends on if you have to run away which is difficult.
That said 20+ years as a bouncer. Almost all fights go to ground and it's a scary place when you don't know what to do.
I once won a giant parking lot brawl because the monster of a human being slipped on a book of matches and hit his head like a melon.
My fighting book collection is vast. Here's a very rare one I wish I took better care of.

 

[JWally]

I'm reading volume two of The Peasants: Winter by Wladyslaw Reymont. Reymont received a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1924 for this work. The books are set in a Polish Community in the mid19th century and tells the stories of ordinary country people and their daily lives and their connection with the rhythm of nature that is close to the order of the church liturgy, the holy days and folk rituals that give life a sacred dimension. If you are looking for a read that has nothing to do with the madness in the world today, and wish to escape to another time when life was simple, I recommend these books.

 

[peter cornbriar]

Is your lab an avid reader too?

 

[peter cornbriar]

I'm reading for the third time Neverness by David Zindell. I'm listening to Monster Hunter International Nemesis.
Neverness is an epic piece of literature spanning time and space. I wholeheartedly recommend it.

I'm a reading machine. Usually about 2-4 books a week. I read really fast. Kind of my super power. I can read a pleasure book in a single sitting. Glasses has slowed me down a little but I average 2000 to 2500 words per minute with 90% + comprehension. Average reader is 400 wpm.
I was gifted books as a boy by a disabled man my mother took care of and he was an avid reader. Gave me all his books when he saw me interested in reading. I've read all of them. To date with mine about 10,000. I love books. The smell of a book makes me feel happy.

Wow, is your lab an avid reader,too? Looks like he's into pipes also.

 

[MLBbreton]

Wow, is your lab an avid reader,too? Looks like he's into pipes also.

Hard to turn the pages. He listens to Audiobooks
I’m going to stage a pipe smoking beer drinking poker game picture with my dogs for fun. I’ll post it when I get the others to hold a pipe.

 

[Aussiemike]

Look up Chin Na. You'll like that if these are a hit.
If you're looking for sheer fighting look for Vale Tudo.
Understand on the street the ground can be a fried or foe. Depends on if you have to run away which is difficult.
That said 20+ years as a bouncer. Almost all fights go to ground and it's a scary place when you don't know what to do.
I once won a giant parking lot brawl because the monster of a human being slipped on a book of matches and hit his head like a melon.
My fighting book collection is vast. Here's a very rare one I wish I took better care of.

Yes MLB unfortunately since the rise of MMA/UFC it has taught a generation that it is ok and fashionable to kick and punch the living piss out of someone on the ground.
I am getting to fat,red and shiny to do anything fancy these days and would fall back on Kravmaga technique's if I found myself in a situation to shut it down quick. but will look up Chin Na thanks.

 

[peter cornbriar]

Best item to bring to a knife fight? Handgun.

 

[gbann57]

 

[Sherlock]

I'm rereading The User Illusion by Tor Nørretranders. It's been a decade or so since I last read it.

 

[AutumnGold]

Now re-reading this for the umpteenth time. Guess I reach for it at least once/year and never get tired of it. Seems like I have whole passages of this memorized! Bryson at his best, IMO.

Sadly, the movie did not live up to the expectations I had. Despite Robert Redford and Nick Nolte in the key roles of Bryson and Kath, the screenplay was lacking and didn't follow many key elements that made the book so riveting.

Thankfully the book remains worth returning to again and again!

8)


Cheers,

RR

Love this book!

 

[Quickhatch]

For you readers of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and HP Lovecraft, there is a fun mashup of the two in a series called The Cthulhu Casebooks & Sherlock Holmes by James Lovegrove. The author does a nice job of capturing the voice of Conan Doyle as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson solve mysteries caused by Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos and the Elder Ones that reside in the sunken city of R'lyeh, hidden deep in the depths of the Pacific Ocean. The first book in the series is The Shadwell Shadows.

 

[Gaius Marius]

I almost always read before bed. I intend to make a YouTube channel sooner than later that consists of books read aloud, chapter by chapter and I read aloud in bed to practice for that. Eventually, I'd like to voulentier read aloud in person to kids, old people, or blind people.
At the moment, I'm going through two books. I read a chapter or two per night from the Deuterocanonical which is good for the soul and is incredible practice in reading difficult names.
Second, I'm reading Tarzan and the Lost Empire which I read until my eyes get heavy. Edgar Rice Burroughs is my favorite author and I've got a particular affinity for the Tarzan series of books. It's likely I'll start my channel reading them. I have tried to scrape together a collection of the original printing of hardcover books that started in 1912, though I've only got six out of the twenty four that exist. Somehow, they do not seem to be coveted collectors items and are seldom if ever found in book or antique stores around here.

 

[AutumnGold]

I like Sam Pickering's work very much, and have most of his essay collections sitting on my bookshelves. He has a dry southern humour and a homely way with words that I find dovetail beautifully with pipe smoking and a leisurely cup of coffee.

 

[Eutychus]

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I like Sam Pickering's work very much, and have most of his essay collections sitting on my bookshelves. He has a dry southern humour and a homely way with words that I find dovetail beautifully with pipe smoking and a leisurely cup of coffee.

Hmm, I’m gonna check him out.

 

[peter cornbriar]

Thomas Pakenham, The Boer War- Illustrated Edition, Random House (1993)
He narrates the war including useful color maps of major battles, the between 18000 and 26000 mainly Boer women and children dying from disease in 45 British concentration camps and the plight of the 100,000 black Africans who served both the British and the Boer armies, finally explaining the political victory of the Boers, (Lost the war but won the Peace), with far reaching consequences for Europe and South Africa, basically setting the stage for The first World War.
The book is out of print, I obtaining it through InterLibrary Loan. Ebay shows several copies ranging from $7 to $36.

kenham, The Boer War- Illustrated edition, Random House (1993)