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I love those books, I have 6 of them....j/kQuote:
Originally Posted by natedogg
Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, I just picked it up yesterday and have read about 50 pages and I must say it's quite good. I think next week I will get Angels and Demons by Brown. I hear that they are very similiar books in story line.
Today I'm going to struggle through Robinson Crusoe. SHould be fun...
I read few pages from a book Torpedo Junction and then get bored. I'm not into it.
how to play a guitar for Dummies :)))
the dictionary :blink: for real on letter e now
Terry Pratchett's " A hat full of sky" followed by "Going postal" (Delivered this very morning :01: )
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Originally Posted by Guillaume
Those new Discworld novels?
Last I have are "Monstrious Regiment" and "The WeeFreeMen" ...
I aint been out much lately
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Right now it's The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier. I'll probably finish it tonight.
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Whirlwind by James Clavell.
Its about Iran at the time when the Shah left and the Ayotallah took over-very interesting as a viewpoint in retrospect.
i'm catching up on the Batgirl comics, i'm gotten through 1-3 at the moment :01:
Jarka Ruus by Terry Brooks
Going Postal - Terry Pratchett
The Meaning of Wife - Anne Kingston
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Cadderly - R A Salvador
Kingdom Come - Mark Waid, Alex Ross
Girl with a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
Digital Fortress - Dan Brown
From Atlantis to the Sphinx by Colin Wilson
The Sphinx was weathered by water rather than wind. How is this possible since it's in the Sahara.
Sahara was once a verdant place...
But the dates wouldn't match since the last climate change took place 4,000 to 3,600 years ago and, if I remember correctly the sphinx was built under Chephren (2558-2532 BC).
edit: BTW, finally started reading "Going postal" :01:
I just started reading The Green Mile , by Stephen King . Great movie but thought the book would be worth checking out.
Yes, "Khafre" ("Chephren" is his name as transcribed by the Greeks) erected the second pyramid at Giza.Quote:
Originally Posted by Guillaume
As Guillaume suggests, you should know that professional Egyptologists totally reject the 'weathered Sphinx' hypothesis, originally suggested by John Anthony West (a layman with no formal training). He originally teamed up with a geologist called Robert Schoch (from Boston University, who does not incidently work in geology, but rather teaches math last I heard) who provided evidence to support the weathered Sphinx theory, but IIRC has since backpeddled on a lot of it under the scrutiny of his geological colleagues. I thought he had actually abandoned West's argument and stepped away from the debate completely, but a quick check of his website would seem to suggest otherwise.
An in-depth (but somewhat out of date) review of the debate:
http://members.aol.com/davidpb4/sphinx1.html
A good archive of websites and position statements by individual (lists the in/famous people involved in various debates, not the least of which is the age-of-the-sphinx fiasco):
http://www.ianlawton.com/gttindex.htm
This is a good website to check before you start reading the known quacks: Graham Handcock, Zecharia Sitchin, Erich von Däniken, etc. Might also want to look for an entry for someone you're unsure about at the Skeptic's Dictionary: http://skepdic.com/
BTW: re: this second last link, _Giza: The Truth_ by Lawton and Ogilvie-Herald (if you can ignore the connotations of the title) is actually a good overview of back-door politicking and scandal of un/professional Egyptology of the 20th C. An interesting and quick read that anyone familar with the history of excavation of ancient Egypt would find most eye-opening.
Edit: Currently reading:
_The Cambridge Illustrated History of China_ by Ebrey
_A History of Chinese Civilization_ by Gernet
Bought recently:
_The Japanese Sword: A Comprehensive Guide_ by Sato
_The Complete Roman Army_ by Goldsworthy
_Miyamoto Musashi The Book of the Five Rings_ by Brown, Kashiwagi, Barrett, and Sasagawa (a translation providing a lot of transcripted Japanese in context).
_Continue to Pester, Nag, and Bite: Churchill's War Leadership_ by Gilbert
_Wellington's Armies: Britain's Campaigns in the Pennisula and at Waterloo 1808-1815_
Cheers,
In Sylvans Shadows by R A Salvatore
Self teaching manuals on C++ and java script...But most is greek to me..lol :blink:
Collected Works of HP Lovecraft. For the hundredth time. ;)
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Night Masks by R A Salvatore
Mercedez Benz 230 CE handbook,
and a similar book for that type of car...
Damn car troubles...
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Originally Posted by Afronaut
The Essential Calvin & Hobbes
A hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
so far it's a good entertaining book :)
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Gulliver's Travels and Great Gatsby.
Gulliver's Travels is surprisingly good, best book I've read so far on my 18th Century module.
Have you found the horses yet?
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Originally Posted by Rat Faced
The Houyhnhnms?Quote:
Originally Posted by MagicNakor
Not to that part yet but they are the main discussion point of my seminar on Friday so I had better hurry up.
The Art of Deception - Kevin Mitnick
Not too bad so far.......
I loved the last section of this book when Gulliver returns home to England and goes a bit mental. Not allowing his wife or child near him for 5 years. :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Withcheese
Dead Famous - Ben Elton
The Defence Diaries of W. Morgan Petty - Brian Bethell
Batman: Cataclysm - Chuck Dixon and others
kill a mockingbird