"A world made by hand" by James Howard Kunstler is a fictional account of the world 10-15 years after oil has basicly run out and people have to go back to living like they did before cars and plastics took over. Fun read with a little of everything.
Attention Book Lovers!!!!!!!
by whyamihere 40 Replies latest jw friends
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BurnTheShips
"A world made by hand" by James Howard Kunstler is a fictional account of the world 10-15 years after oil has basicly run out and people have to go back to living like they did before cars and plastics took over. Fun read with a little of everything.
I've got his "The Long Emergency". Scary stuff. And it seems a little prophetic with oil as high as it is. BTS
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leftbelow
BTS Yeah I keep meaning to pick it up but I always forget I may pick it up this weekend. This was the first book of his I had read but it was very good.
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changeling
I'm with those who mentioned: A Thousand Splenid Sons, Pillars of the Earth (and sequel World Without End) and Eat, Pray, Love.
I would add to that:
The Red Tent - Anita Diamant
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa Lee
changeling :)
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changeling
burns: You do know Ken Follet is an atheist, right?
changeling :)
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zagor
OK, I am on my 8th book this month
wow, we should talk some more then.
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BizzyBee
Oooo, jgnat reminded me that I have been reading Steven Pinker's The Stuff of Thought - Language as a Window into Human Nature. Fascinating. Also reading The Second Plane by Martin Amis. Always reading 2 - 3 - 4 books at a time. Just finished The Tragedy of American Compassion by Marvin Olasky.
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behemot
Wow! Here a thread where, being a compulsory reader, I feel I fit well (currently reading my 108th book this year).
Among the latest I read last month:
Fiction:
Andrè Schwarz-Bart, The Last of the Just (a novel that traces the story of a Jewish family from the time of the Crusades to the gates of Auschwitz)
Martin Page, How I Became Stupid (very funny: see review at http://www.amazon.com/How-Became-Stupid-Martin-Page/dp/0142004952)
Nick Hornby, Slam (his latest book: see http://www.nicksbooks.com/index.php/archives/71)
John Fante, Wait Until Spring, Bandini (see review at http://www.amazon.com/Wait-Until-Spring-Bandini-Fante/dp/0876855540)
Essays:
Richard Rorty, Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contingency%2C_Irony%2C_and_Solidarity)
Gerd Theissen, Sociology of Early Palestinian Christianity
Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem. A report on the Banality of Evil (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichmann_in_Jerusalem)
Amos Oz, How to Cure a Fanatic (very interesting: see review at http://www.amazon.com/How-Cure-Fanatic-Amos-Oz/dp/0691126690)
Sapere aude! (latin for: "dare to know!")
Behemot
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str8?so is spaghetti..until you heat it up
I don't want to make you jealous darlings
But because i work for Europe's largest publishing group
i
well
i
never pay
for books...
ever
and have beside my bed
40 new books
and thats only for the last month
yeah
READ THESE AND DIE HAPPY:
(please note, some of these have not been released yet, I have already read the manuscript)
Oh and i could keep goinG!
Much Love
Rob
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John Doe
I don't pay for books either--excellent libraries here.