What 📔book are you reading right now?

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Lovecraft fans should be interested in this: complete works free on Kindle:

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[Starbrow]

The Lord God Made Them All by James Herriot

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

A little off topic, @Starbrow, but have you been watching the new reboot of the TV adaptation?

 

[Deimos]

He should have kept to his original intention of eight books, in my opinion (aside from the death problem). He had so many plot lines going that the later books succumbed to inertia.

Yep... death is usually a problem... and a rather pesky one most of the time. 🙄

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

The last three were written by Brandon Sanderson. I have them, but haven't read them, having given up around number 9 or 10. I'll get to them eventually -- if the aforementioned "problem" doesn't intervene. 😅

 

[Starbrow]

A little off topic, @Starbrow, but have you been watching the new reboot of the TV adaptation?

I haven't, but the ads inspired me to get the audio book for a long car trip. Is the series good?

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

I think it's quite good.

 

[Starbrow]

I'll add it to my long list of shows I should watch.

 

[Ugluk]

"Two years before the mast" by Richard Dana. It's been a long time since I read it, and I am amazed by how good it is.

 

[Deimos]

"Two years before the mast" by Richard Dana. It's been a long time since I read it, and I am amazed by how good it is.

Just now looked it up. Sounds like very good read. Thanks for mentioning it.

If you haven't read Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage I recommend it.
Shackleton's ill-fated voyage to the Antarctic has been told/documented by several writers.
I read THIS ONE by Alfred Lansing, considered one of the two best accounts of the voyage.
(I believe several other books about the voyage are mentioned somewhere on this forum....)

 

[Ugluk]

Just now looked it up. Sounds like very good read. Thanks for mentioning it.

If you haven't read Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage I recommend it.
Shackleton's ill-fated voyage to the Antarctic has been told/documented by several writers.
I read THIS ONE by Alfred Lansing, considered one of the two best accounts of the voyage.
(I believe several other books about the voyage are mentioned somewhere on this forum....)

I actually am departing for Antarctica next week. Shackleton's book is one of the ones I am taking with me

 

[Ugluk]

Currently reading this book, which purports to share (in Ent's words) the history of the evolution of thinking about the earth, our understanding of it, including its age, development, etc., and the impacts those things had in the "revolution of man's thinking."

Ent has no opinion - certainly no perspective - regarding its overall value at this point. But it is interesting.

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Martin Rudwick is a great palaeontologist, read his book on brachiopods as an undergraduate, and discovered his insightful works on the history of geology and the interaction of geology and Christianity some years later

 

[Deimos]

I actually am departing for Antarctica next week. Shackleton's book is one of the ones I am taking with me

Ummmm... just don't let the penguins carry it off before you can read it.

 

[Ugluk]

Ummmm... just don't let the penguins carry it off before you can read it.

I survived the polar bears in the Arctic so I think I will survive penguins!

 

[Deimos]

I survived the polar bears in the Arctic so I think I will survive penguins!

 

[Ugluk]

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Love that! It's why when we were working outside in the Arctic we usually had an armed guard!

 

[Deimos]

Man, this bear could easily take your head off with one swipe.

Largest recorded polar bear, shot in Alaska in 1960. 12 feet tall standing​

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[Ugluk]

Apex predators

 

[Starbrow]

The Silmarillion

 

[Deimos]

Apex predators

Apex predator of the apex predators😄