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  • Enkidu
    Enkidu So Cal Posts: 2,996
    Byrnzie wrote:
    Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia
    - Peter Hopkirk


    foreign-devils-on-the-silk-road-the-search-for-the-lost-treasures-of-central-asia.jpeg

    That looks great, are you far into it?
  • samjam
    samjam New York Posts: 9,283
    Just finished The Metamorphosis by Kafka for my lit class.
    Twisted, but I actually liked it.
    "Sometimes you find yourself having to put all your faith in no faith."
    ~not a dude~
    2010: MSGx2
    2012: Made In America
    2013: Pittsburgh, Brooklynx2, Hartford, Baltimore
    2014: Leeds, Milton Keynes, Detroit
    2015: Global Citizen Festival
    2016: Phillyx2, MSGx2, Fenwayx2
    2018: Barcelona, Wrigleyx2
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    books a memoir - larry mcmurtry
    the blank slate - the modern denial of human nature - steven pinker
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • Wizard and Glass..

    I'm re-reading the Stephen King Dark Tower series. I read through Wizard and Glass years ago when it came out, but stopped.. Can't wait to get to the later books for the first time!
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Enkidu wrote:
    That looks great, are you far into it?

    Yeah, one chapter left. It's brilliant. It's inspired me to want to travel around the Taklamakan desert and follow in the footsteps of these people.
    I'm gonna get another one of his books soon: 'Trespassers on the Roof of the World: The Secret Exploration of Tibet'
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    empire.jpg

    I just finished a book about Kublai Khan. I'll be going to Mongolia next year - staying one night in Ulaanbaator. Would be good to get out into the grasslands but I won't have time.
  • I just started "where men win glory"
  • Lizard
    Lizard So Cal Posts: 12,091
    Under the Banner of Heaven
    So I'll just lie down and wait for the dream
    Where I'm not ugly and you're lookin' at me
  • Lizard wrote:
    Under the Banner of Heaven


    Great book.
  • Lizard
    Lizard So Cal Posts: 12,091
    Lizard wrote:
    Under the Banner of Heaven


    Great book.

    Very interesting.

    I may convert :shock:

    8-)
    So I'll just lie down and wait for the dream
    Where I'm not ugly and you're lookin' at me
  • Lizard wrote:
    Under the Banner of Heaven


    Great book.


    yes, very enlightening.
  • guitar59
    guitar59 Posts: 1,221
    About to start Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury...not my choice...but here it goes... ;)
  • Starting "Just Passin' Thru" by Winton Porter
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    lowside of the road - barney hoskyns
    hear my name
    take a good look
    this could be the day
    hold my hand
    lie beside me
    i just need to say
  • pearljgirl2010
    pearljgirl2010 Shillington, PA/Tuckerton, NJ Posts: 3,428
    Sepulchre, by Kate Mosse
    Need a tour Travel Agent??? Pick me :-)

    Whatever you are, be a good one --Lincoln
  • unlost dogs
    unlost dogs Greater Boston Posts: 12,553
    Still working my way through Zinn's "People's History of the US."

    In my defense, it's a very long book...
    15 years of sharks 06/30/08 (MA), 05/17/10 (Boston), 09/03/11 (Alpine Valley), 09/04/11 (Alpine Valley), 09/30/12 (Missoula), 07/19/13 (Wrigley), 10/15/13 (Worcester), 10/16/13 (Worcester), 10/25/13 (Hartford), 12/4/13 (Vancouver), 12/6/13 (Seattle), 6/26/14 (Berlin), 6/28/14 (Stockholm), 10/16/14 (Detroit)
  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    War by Gwynne Dyer
    1998 ~ Barrie
    2003 ~ Toronto
    2005 ~ London, Toronto
    2006 ~ Toronto
    2008 ~ Hartford, Mansfied I,
    2009 ~ Toronto, Chicago I, Chicago II
    2010 ~ Cleveland, Buffalo
    2011 ~ Toronto I, Toronto II, Ottawa, Hamilton
    2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
    2014 - Detroit
    2019 - Chicago X 2
  • oona left
    oona left Posts: 1,677
    smarchee wrote:
    Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk

    I loved this book!!!
  • craigb
    craigb Posts: 806
    oona left wrote:
    smarchee wrote:
    Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk

    I loved this book!!!

    Great book. Palahniuk is such a fantastic writer.

    Right now I'm reading "Great Expectations" for one of my English Prerequisites.
    "Speak clearly if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall"

    Los Angeles 10.7.2009