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This is on my to-read list - how is it? I really loved Theodore Rex, have you read it? If so, how does it compare to Bully Pulpit?EdsonNascimento said:Bully Pulpit
Theodore Roosevelt rules. This country needs another of him to lead us pronto.
And yes, we definitely need another TR!Are we getting something out of this all-encompassing trip?
Seems my preconceptions are what should have been burned...
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Reading this right now....kind of dry, but interesting!Show #13 was a lucky one for me....0
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I read a long article about Rosalind Franklin a few years ago. I'd never heard of her. She was certainly cheated out of any credit for identifying DNA. Too bad she didn't get any recognition until after her death."The stars are all connected to the brain."0
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The only reason I had really heard of her before is because I'm in the science field...but yes it's a shame. I'm learning even more about the gender inequalities within the science field especially during her time. Apparently in the physics field was even worse...at...I believe it was Princeton, they wouldn't even let women in the physics building!!Who Princess said:I read a long article about Rosalind Franklin a few years ago. I'd never heard of her. She was certainly cheated out of any credit for identifying DNA. Too bad she didn't get any recognition until after her death.
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Great book. I remember reading it in High School and loving it.gunter1976 said:The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. In a perfectly crafted story, which won for Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature, is a unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to the elements in which he lives."Where's KW?"
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Winter's Tale by Mark HelprinThere is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
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New work by Haruki Murakami, his latest: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. The Dutch version since the English translation will not hit the market till this summer.. ."...bring it back someway bring it back, back, back... to the clean form, to the pure form..."
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I'm reading An Officer and a Spy (sounds too much like Officer and a Gentleman) by Robert Harris. It's the Dreyfus Affair told as a novel. One review said it was great, one said it was slow. I can't put it down.
And I finally started posting about books/reading in a blog. Check it out if you'd like. And let me know if you have any suggestions for the blog or for books. Thanks!
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Wow. Reading your blog has given me more titles to put on my "to read" list!Enkidu said:And I finally started posting about books/reading in a blog. Check it out if you'd like. And let me know if you have any suggestions for the blog or for books. Thanks!
http://mybookclubforone.blogspot.com/)
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Brilliant Positive Thinking by Sue Hadfield. My brother thought I should read it after I bought it for him.Hyde Park 25/06/10
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The Late Shift by Bill Carter
I'm a sucker for these books.Shows: 6.27.08 Hartford, CT/5.15.10 Hartford, CT/6.18.2011 Hartford, CT (EV Solo)/10.19.13 Brooklyn/10.25.13 Hartford
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Finished this up over the weekend. For those TLDRers out there, the end result is, yes, one can become Batman. But you need money, a decent build to start with, have to start before you're in your 30s (Dang!) and you won't be able to do it for very long.kw18 said:
I'm going to keep the comic book-theme trend alive with this:
I just wish Zehr went into some of the other aspects, training and knowledge it would take to become Batman -- like detective, mechanic, flight and invention skills. Maybe that will be his next book?
Sticking with science, I'm currently reading this:
Gotta love some NDT."Where's KW?"
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A bunch of books in the blog will come from this thread. I want to write about King Leopold's Ghost, for example. Oh, and the Dreyfus Affair book is amazing. Amazing! (An Officer and a Spy.)Who Princess said:
Wow. Reading your blog has given me more titles to put on my "to read" list!Enkidu said:And I finally started posting about books/reading in a blog. Check it out if you'd like. And let me know if you have any suggestions for the blog or for books. Thanks!
http://mybookclubforone.blogspot.com/)
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Currently reading Ryszard Kapuscinski's Imperium. Fascinating! I'm going to want to read every that man wrote, for sure!
Also recently read Max Frisch's incredible Man in the Holocene. Thank you, Henry Rollins, for turning me on to the tow great writers!"It's a sad and beautiful world"-Roberto Benigni0 -
Finished the Rosalind Franklin book over the weekend...definitely gives insight to the struggles that she faced as a female scientist in the 1950's. And yes she was totally robbed...and it's unfortunate that she died so young...she was such an asset to the scientific community. Even in the end, she was literally dragging herself up the stairs to work while suffering from ovarian cancer to continue her research.
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^^^ I remember reading that loooong ago when I was 14 or 15 and thinking what a crazy, wild, great little book it was. Had no idea it would become somewhat of a reality all of these years later.The love he receives is the love that is saved0
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Ditto. Except most of the little $hits who hit up schools (or theaters, or ...) these day aren't doing it for the same reasons the main character in Rage did it. Nowhere close, even.F Me In The Brain said:^^^ I remember reading that loooong ago when I was 14 or 15 and thinking what a crazy, wild, great little book it was. Had no idea it would become somewhat of a reality all of these years later.
"Where's KW?"
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I'm not very into politics, but all this behind the scenes stuff is very interesting...0 -
The Luminaries, by Eleanor Catton. I don't know what I was thinking taking on another long book (800+ pages) right after The Goldfinch. I blame the winter.ELITIST FUK0
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