46 Pages (Thomas Paine) by Scott Liell
How to be a Stoic - Pigliucci
The Federalist Papers
-
In total there are 3 users online :: 1 registered, 0 hidden and 2 guests (based on users active over the past 60 minutes)
Most users ever online was 789 on Tue Mar 19, 2024 5:08 am
On my nightstand...
Forum rules
Do not promote books in this forum. Instead, promote your books in either Authors: Tell us about your FICTION book! or Authors: Tell us about your NON-FICTION book!.
All other Community Rules apply in this and all other forums.
Do not promote books in this forum. Instead, promote your books in either Authors: Tell us about your FICTION book! or Authors: Tell us about your NON-FICTION book!.
All other Community Rules apply in this and all other forums.
- adenham
-
Getting Comfortable
- Posts: 6
- Joined: Sun Feb 28, 2021 12:19 am
- 3
- Location: Alabama
- Has thanked: 4 times
Re: On my nightstand...
I've been trying to read more books by indie authors lately to help out and review. I recently read "A Broken Kind of Love" by Colleen Young. I've even gone out of my usual and read a couple of horror short story collections. I've found I'm not a huge horror fan still, but it's nice to break out every once and a while!
- Brooks127
-
Senior
- Posts: 359
- Joined: Wed May 15, 2013 6:23 pm
- 10
- Has thanked: 82 times
- Been thanked: 110 times
Re: On my nightstand...
I have so many books, I dedicated a page to them. lol : https://archive.org/details/BAMFTPB
If you visit the page, you'll hear audio files of me talking about them. I'm planning to add more.
If you visit the page, you'll hear audio files of me talking about them. I'm planning to add more.
- Brooks127
-
Senior
- Posts: 359
- Joined: Wed May 15, 2013 6:23 pm
- 10
- Has thanked: 82 times
- Been thanked: 110 times
Re: On my nightstand...
Thanks, I'll check it out. Paine's always fascinated me. If I'm not mistaken, he owed people money and started his life over in the colonies. Reminds me in some odd way of the French mathematician Descartes. He traveled so much to escape the wrath of those wanting to ban his writing, rumors existed after his death his ghost roamed the countryside.Mr. Pessimistic wrote:46 Pages (Thomas Paine) by Scott Liell
- Brooks127
-
Senior
- Posts: 359
- Joined: Wed May 15, 2013 6:23 pm
- 10
- Has thanked: 82 times
- Been thanked: 110 times
Re: On my nightstand...
Though not the same as reading, Lights Out is an old-time radio show: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lights_Out_(radio_show) Despite it's age, it's actually pretty scary.adenham wrote:I've even gone out of my usual and read a couple of horror short story collections.
- adenham
-
Getting Comfortable
- Posts: 6
- Joined: Sun Feb 28, 2021 12:19 am
- 3
- Location: Alabama
- Has thanked: 4 times
Re: On my nightstand...
Brooks127 wrote:Though not the same as reading, Lights Out is an old-time radio show: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lights_Out_(radio_show) Despite it's age, it's actually pretty scary.adenham wrote:I've even gone out of my usual and read a couple of horror short story collections.
Interesting! I love that, I'll have to look it up. I'm usually a fan of anything spooky.
- DWill
-
- BookTalk.org Hall of Fame
- Posts: 6966
- Joined: Thu Jan 31, 2008 8:05 am
- 16
- Location: Luray, Virginia
- Has thanked: 2262 times
- Been thanked: 2470 times
Re: On my nightstand...
Oliver Twist. I always feel a twinge of, I guess, guilt over the famous books I've skipped (comes from being an English major--twice). So I decided to read the Dickens books I never got around to. All I knew about OT was that a musical (a genre I generally don't like) was made from it and it concerned various rapscallions in the slums of London. In reality it's an affecting moral tale, like anything Dickens wrote. But here's the challenge of reading this book in 2021: the portrayal of the Jew, Fagin, demonstrates not just prejudice towards Jews but real hatred. This is a spoiler of a different sort. What do other readers do when you run into something repulsive in a writer you like? In this case, of course, the writer is beloved and acclaimed for his good-heartedness. At least in this instance, Dickens was only too willing to exploit race hatred in order to create an uber- villain.
- Mr. P
-
- Has Plan to Save Books During Fire
- Posts: 3826
- Joined: Wed Jun 16, 2004 10:16 am
- 19
- Location: NJ
- Has thanked: 7 times
- Been thanked: 137 times
- Gender:
Re: On my nightstand...
Way cool!! I just have a legal pad and a pen. Haha
Brooks127 wrote:I have so many books, I dedicated a page to them. lol : https://archive.org/details/BAMFTPB
If you visit the page, you'll hear audio files of me talking about them. I'm planning to add more.
When you refuse to learn, you become a disease.