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The Silmarillion was chronologically before The Hobbit an LOTR.
So you should have read it first.
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So you should have read it first.
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Mad Monk assumed then, that I wanted to read those books. Yes, if I wanted to read those books, then I would start with the Silmarillion.
So when Mad Monk asked, "Then how can you follow the succeeding generations . . ." he had assumed I had read the other, later books first and not Silmarillion when I have not read ANY of them.A lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican.Comment
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You haven't read any of them? I'd keep that to myself if I were you. Might get your nerd card revoked.John Brown did nothing wrong.Comment
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A lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican.Comment
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Watching the HBO series got me to finally start reading the Song of Ice and Fire series.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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Just download "A Dance With Dragons" by George R.R. Martin this morning. Of course, getting back up to speed, reading the summaries of the rest of the series, has been paramount (can we get the next book released before 5 years from now?)“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)Comment
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Jack McDevitt Alex Benedict series and Karl Schroeder Virga SeriesWhat can make a nigga wanna fight a whole night club/Figure that he ought to maybe be a pimp simply 'cause he don't like love/What can make a nigga wanna achy, break all rules/In a book when it took a lot to get you hooked up to this volume/
What can make a nigga wanna loose all faith in/Anything that he can't feel through his chest wit sensationComment
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Caine's Reckoning - Sarah McCarty
It's kind of romantic for a romance novel...Comment
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The damn thing was $10 last night on the Kindle store, but now its $15. Its a bit too expensive IMO for something that is inferior, in almost every respect, to the actual book. Not to mention that the hardback version is only $19.Just download "A Dance With Dragons" by George R.R. Martin this morning. Of course, getting back up to speed, reading the summaries of the rest of the series, has been paramount (can we get the next book released before 5 years from now?)Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy – LessingComment
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Nostromo are you quoting Lessing for the hell of it or you have studied him?In Soviet Russia, Fake borises YOU.Comment
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a lot of political stuff/
the ragged trousered philanthropists by robert tressell which i finished recently.
at the other end of the spectrum i decided to finally tackle atlas shrugged by ayn rand. i wish i hadn't bothered. i've just reached what appears to be a 60 odd page monologue about objectivism.
"The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.
"The most obvious predicition about the future is that it will be mostly like the past" - Alain de BottonComment
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This is the reason why I am thinking of getting the hardback version.Originally posted by Nostromo View Post
I see it in the store for 20$. I would have gotten it definitely for 10$.
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GENERATION 35: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation. Social experiment.Comment
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Ayn Rand wrote Atlas Shrugged? Are you sure about that?Originally posted by C0ckney View Post
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La RochefoucauldComment
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I never read Lessing. I found the quote in Paul Lafargue's Le droit à la paresse (the right to be lazy).Originally posted by Oncle Boris View PostLet us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy – LessingComment
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Some stuff I read (or re-read) recently
- Nana by Émile Zola
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Luxury Fever by Robert Frank
- The Rebel Sell by Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter (a critique of the counterculture. The title is different in the US: Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture)
- Why Don't Students Like School by Daniel Willingham
- How to Live by Sarah Bakewell (a nice little book on Montaigne)Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy – LessingComment
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