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Re: The BOOKS thread... what you reading?
« Reply #420 on: April 21, 2021, 08:14:46 PM »
Just started reading Neil Gaiman's ''American Gods''. Less than fifty pages in, I'm already hooked. I love the feeling in the pit of my stomach that this is about to take me to a proper ride... :)

Absolutely classic Gaiman and will take you on one hell of a ride, there's a couple of good follow-up short stories in his collections, one of which is set not far from where I live in the Peak District and features the Three Stags Heads at Wardlow Mires, our answer to the Slaughtered Lamb...

On my part, I'm currently on non-fiction in the form of Ruth Goodman's "How to Behave Badly in Renaissance England"
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Re: The BOOKS thread... what you reading?
« Reply #421 on: April 23, 2021, 01:38:41 PM »
"Civilization One" by Christopher Knight and Alan Butler.
Somewhere there is this thread here about the Question: Who build the Moon? and those guys wrote that book to it.
Now i'm reading their first work i guess, where they describe and show how they found out about the "Megalithic Yard" whih brought them to find out more about merging systems. Some thoughts or also facts derived from that book or reading it is:

- The builders of the Stone Age monuments of the British Isles used a unit of lenght that was defined to one ten-thousandth of a millimetre
- That unit is fundamental to the Sun, Moon, Earth
- The pound and the pint are derived from this prehistoric unit of lenght
- There are 366 degrees to an Earth Circle, not 360
- The hour, minute and second were developed more than two millennia before christ - from the movements of the moon

- The further back in time all measurements are studied, the more they merge into one great system.

So...when Justin sings about Still Navigating by the Stars it could also be Still measuring everything like thousands of years before..
And yeah, obviously these things and thoughts are deeply connected. In the book they display how the movement of the Venus was put into a system of measurement.
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Re: The BOOKS thread... what you reading?
« Reply #422 on: April 23, 2021, 07:00:56 PM »
Lord of the Rings...probably my most ever re-read book. I havent read it for around 15 years though. So many little things Id forgotten.
Hala (from the Anglo-Saxon word "halh", meaning nook or remote valley), until it was gifted by King Henry II to Welsh Prince David Owen and became known as Halas Owen

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Re: The BOOKS thread... what you reading?
« Reply #423 on: April 24, 2021, 10:05:18 PM »
A book I found in a box in berlin on the street. It is in Italian but it is a collection of short stories about the German wall and when it felt down.
Renatus Deckert compiled it. The title in Italian is La Notte in cui cadde il Muro. The Night the Wall Felt down or something.
In German: Die Nacht in der die Mauer fiel.

Just started seems interesting to read.

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Re: The BOOKS thread... what you reading?
« Reply #424 on: April 27, 2021, 02:33:59 AM »
Just started reading Neil Gaiman's ''American Gods''. Less than fifty pages in, I'm already hooked. I love the feeling in the pit of my stomach that this is about to take me to a proper ride... :)

Absolutely classic Gaiman and will take you on one hell of a ride, there's a couple of good follow-up short stories in his collections, one of which is set not far from where I live in the Peak District and features the Three Stags Heads at Wardlow Mires, our answer to the Slaughtered Lamb...

On my part, I'm currently on non-fiction in the form of Ruth Goodman's "How to Behave Badly in Renaissance England"

Frankly, I'm still stuck with American Gods... I cannot remember when I last read a book so damn slowly... I've been reading it so slowly because I DON'T WANT IT TO END!!! :o :'( I'm absolutely, hopelessly, in love with this book.
I have an edition where's included the novella ''The Monarch of the Glen'' so I'll be reading that soon... Last December I read ''Anansi Boys'' and loved it so much that I wondered why I hadn't read it before 8) I'm definitely going to read every book he ever wrote...

p.s. I had to google "How to Behave Badly in Renaissance England"... ;D

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Re: The BOOKS thread... what you reading?
« Reply #425 on: April 27, 2021, 10:37:22 AM »
I don't think Neil Gaiman's ever written anything I didn't like - like many people, first encountered him through "The Sandman" graphic novels back in the late 80s then "Good Omens" with Terry Pratchett and I've read most of his output since. You've reminded me that I never got round to reading "Anansi Boys" though, something I need to put right!
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Re: The BOOKS thread... what you reading?
« Reply #426 on: April 28, 2021, 12:39:10 PM »
''The White People and Other Weird Stories'' by Arthur Machen........great collection of strange tales..very enjoyable indeed... 8)....

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« Reply #427 on: May 02, 2021, 07:37:41 AM »
''The Bloody Chamber'' by Angela Carter a collection of short stories of retold fairy tales........brilliant..

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« Reply #428 on: May 10, 2021, 10:57:43 AM »
''Fireworks'' another collection of short stories by Angela Carter..........what an amazing writer she was..

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« Reply #429 on: May 11, 2021, 03:57:30 PM »
After the mind-blowing journey with American Gods, I’ve been recalibrating my brain with some thrillers. Just finished Jussi Adler-Olsen's ''Mercy''. I already missed Carl Mørck :)

Now, I finally managed to get ''The Twelve'' by Justin Cronin - it's the second book of a trilogy. I read ''The Passage'' a year ago and it was epic... if you're into virus apocalypses and stuff, I recommend  ;D

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« Reply #430 on: May 12, 2021, 10:32:56 AM »
''We'' by Yevgeny Zamyatin..considered the first dystopian novel ever written (so my research informs me)...what a brilliant book,more like ''A Brave New World'' than 1984 but better (imho)....it was first published in 1924 what an imagination the author had,his thinking was way ahead of his time...
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Re: The BOOKS thread... what you reading?
« Reply #431 on: May 12, 2021, 02:58:47 PM »
Dystopian novels reminded me of ''When the Sleeper Awakes'' by H. G. Wells, I truly enjoyed reading that one... If you can use the words 'enjoy' and 'dystopia' in the same sentence :)

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« Reply #432 on: May 14, 2021, 12:27:50 PM »
''Faceless Killers'' by Henning Mankell....The First Wallander Thriller.........really enjoying it........loved the Swedish TV series starring Rolf Lassgard   (the only Wallander for me).. 8)..

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« Reply #433 on: May 14, 2021, 07:15:52 PM »
Cheers Ghosttrain,
just finished my missing first of Jo Nesbo Harry Hole books - Fledermausmann

Not shure what to read (reread) next - Pratchett or a crime story or 2 books about Da Vinci and his work (with prints)
And me, I`ve got a black place in my heart
Still got this hole in me
Perhaps - I am the master of nothing?

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Re: The BOOKS thread... what you reading?
« Reply #434 on: May 14, 2021, 08:36:17 PM »
Wait a second... 1924? I just checked ''When The Sleeper Awakes'' from Wikipedia and it was actually in 1899, and definitely dystopian stuff :)