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fs33 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 17, 2023 6:02 am

Riverboat wrote: ↑Mon Oct 16, 2023 9:30 pm

Mrs. Timmy wrote: ↑Wed Oct 11, 2023 12:45 pm Last night, I started reading Last Bus to Woodstock, the first of Colin Dexter’s “Morse” novels.

If there's a Last Bus from Woostock, I hope it doesn't come with pictures.

I take it you were not overly impressed with the movie

He still has flashbacks from the brown acid.

fs33 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 17, 2023 6:02 amI take it you were not overly impressed with the movie

I just got done reading all of "The Expanse" books from James S.A. Corey.

I'm now re-reading "The Last Wish" from Andrzej Sapkowski.

Recently re-read an old favourite, Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand, and a new favourite, Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones.

I just finished Declare by Tim Powers which I greatly enjoyed despite his liturgical errors (e.g. there wasn't a midnight Easter Vigil in the 1920s).

For fun, reading the Dickens "Christmas" stories I hadn't yet read. Just finished The Chimes and started The Battle of Life. Like Cricket on the Hearth, these two stories aren't specifically about Christmas. The Chimes is set on New Year's Eve. The Battle of Life hasn't yet revealed its time frame to me. I'm guessing they're "Christmas" stories because of when they were originally published? There's one more, The Haunted Man, that I'll get to next. Obviously, we read A Christmas Carol aloud every year over the couple of nights before Christmas Eve.

peregrinator wrote: ↑Wed Nov 22, 2023 4:50 pm I just finished Declare by Tim Powers which I greatly enjoyed despite his liturgical errors (e.g. there wasn't a midnight Easter Vigil in the 1920s).

Tim Powers is a lot of fun.

Yes, normally when I see that kind of error I put the book down and don't bother finishing it, but the book was good enough that I was able to overlook it.

Hello all it’s been awhile. Thanks for keeping the group alive.
I am reading The Three Musketeers. I do not believe I had read it before. A good fun little read.

welcome Will! I am glad you found us.

I'm reading Scruton's Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition.

Hello again all.
I am also reading The Pillars of the Earth. I like the game and had always wanted to read the book. My daughter found it at a book sale a grabbed it for me. Interesting view of life back then.

mia.s wrote: ↑Fri Dec 08, 2023 3:14 pm I'm reading Scruton's Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition.

How is it? For me, Scruton always alternates between interesting and deep, and doing Kant stuff which I find impenetrable.

So then he's accurately imitating Kant.

Indeed.

Will wrote: ↑Mon Dec 04, 2023 6:47 pm Hello all it’s been a while. Thanks for keeping the group alive.
I am reading The Three Musketeers. I do not believe I have read it before. A good fun little read.

That is one of my favorite books, did you know it is the first volume of a trilogy? It is. The second book "20 Years After" reunites the four during the time of Cardinal Mazarin and the English Civil War. I'll say no more. The third volume "The Vicomte de Braggelone" is set 10 years after that. Braggelone is such a long book (longer than the other two volumes combined) that it is often published in three volumes:

The Victomte De Braggelone (the first 93 chapters)
Louise de la Valliere (chapters 91-180)
The Man in the Iron Mask (chapters 181-269)

Some people read The Man in the Iron Mask by itself and are confused by it because Dumas didn't publish a book titled "The Man in the Iron Mask", it isn't a stand-alone book, it is the third part of a long novel, which is itself the concluding chapter of a trilogy.

gherkin wrote: ↑Sat Dec 09, 2023 10:12 am

mia.s wrote: ↑Fri Dec 08, 2023 3:14 pm I'm reading Scruton's Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition.

How is it? For me, Scruton always alternates between interesting and deep, and doing Kant stuff which I find impenetrable.

So far, I haven't found the Kant stuff too much but I'm only halfway through the book. I do like his references to other conservative writing, and the comparisons between philosophies. I'm learning a lot more about the ideological roots of American culture and how American conservatism isn't that conservative.

Thanks! Yeah, the capitalist leanings of American "conservatives" really make our style of rightwingism just another form of progressivism.

I am now reading (actually re-reading) "Communicating for a change" by Andy Stanley and Lane Jones. It is a book to help with Homiletics.

Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
Book by Rachel Maddow

Only a couple of chapters in, it is interesting!