@lostmason and @drac2485, I have parts one and two saved on my computer. I will try to send via private message. If not just DM me an email address and I will send it to you.
Ouch, having come from a background going to school with theology and biblical languages, I can't imagine how awful it must've been to lose all those resources. Kindle is really a wonderful thing, and I wish I had it back in college.
@lostmason I don't work for Amazon or anything, but I have to recommend the kindle paperwhite, especially if you have eye problems. You can change the font and font size to whatever you like for a book, the screen is like reading paper (e-ink), and it has a gentle adjustable-brightness backlight for reading after dark. It really is just like reading a book, but with features.
Okay, I have to confess something really embarrassing... I have used ereaders for so long now that I catch myself "swiping" the page to turn the page (doesn't work, btw) sometimes when I am reading an actual book. LOL! I suddenly feel like Scotty with a mouse in Star Trek IV.
I prefer paper. I have tried digital books on my iPad but it's just not the same. I have also tried audio books but listening to the same voice reading in the same monotonous tone get's boring after about 5 minutes and I start having trouble following along and retaining what has been read. Then I fall to sleep. It's so bad that if I am having problems falling to sleep, I will be a headset on and listen to an audio book.
My wife says I hoard books. I don't. I just can't see buying a good book and then just throwing them away or trading them. I just keep re-reading them from time to time.
@ tomatobodhi . I'll look into it (like the pun?),I have a 42" monitor and I still have to sit up to within 20' of the screen to read.That's with glasses on. But,sounds ;like a good recommendation.
@PappyJoe , About 6 years ago,my son and his friends managed to burn my barn to the ground.There was about 500 to 700 books stored that I just couldn't bring myself to dispose of.A complete Stepen King collection as well as several years of Piers Anthony's xanth.All of Anne McCafferty's Pern novels.And 85% were Hard back.I"m down to the 300 or 400 books that were and are on shelves in the house.
I don't remember who,but someone mentioned microbiology.There is an old novel titled "The Judas Strain",Fantastic read.
@lostmason - I read the Judas Strain. In fact, I've read all of the Sigma Force novels by James Rollins and they have always kept my interest from start to finish. The scary part is that some of what he writes seems so plausible.
Paper for me....I have a habit or dozing in the tub while reading a book and dont want to ruin a kindle if it gets wet. as for what I read it goes from Pern..love the series...the Amber books by Rodger Zelazney..Piers Anthony incarnations of immortality series..and love the W.E.B. Griffin books..all of them! and any good book about WW1 or WW2 filled with maps and footnotes
@crapgame - Have you been sneaking into my library? I read all of the Incarnations of Immortality and The Corps and The Brotherhood of War. I've also read the Stephen Ambrose books about WWII in Europe and the Pacific.
You guys are killing me,I only read two issues of The Incarnations of Immortality cause I couldn't find any more. @PappyJoe check out Robin Cook,his books will scare you.He wrote one dealing with contaminated beef and a week after reading it Okla announced a new packing plant to be built.I could not get my wife to shut up for love nor money.She was so against even the idea,she was livid.Cook does his research really well and his stories are quite plausible.
I think I've read all the series Jim Butcher has written - all of The Dresden Files, The Codex Alera series and the 1st book in the Cinder Spires series.
I'd also recommend anything by L.E. Modesitt (especially the Saga of Recluse series) and Raymond Feist Riftwar Cycle (a series of series).
I also get in a mood sometimes and read all of the Sackett books by L'Amore.
One of my top recommendations though is best read when things get stressful - The Tao of Willie by Willie Nelson.
@pappyjoe Kowalski is what was hidden in the black bar. Rollins used his Sigma Force characters in non-Sigma Force books before he started the series. He's even gone back and been dragging back his earlier characters into his newer novels.
I am a huge H.P. Lovecraft fan. His are some of the few stories I can read and reread again and again. I shouldn't be confused with a fan of the later stuff that some of his friends did with his mythos after he died. I like Lovecraft's works themselves.
I like reading all sorts of classic science fiction and sci-fi horror. I enjoy Lovecraft's sense of horror: the sense that the universe is so vast and we are so small and ignorant and helpless before the immensity of it all.
I've read the 1st to books in the Wheel of Time series but couldn't get into them. Jordan's writing style just doesn't grab my attention. Same with writers like Poul Anderson and Heinlein.
@pappyjoe I understand that. I have some authors friends have tried getting me into but they just don't hold my attention. I almost had that happen in the wheel of time series. The first few books are very slow to start but as you get into them your mind starts trying to predict events and they normally don't go to the way you think, just dragging you deeper and deeper into the story. I'm on book 8 right now but I also start with New Beginnings, a book later written as a prequel to book 1 and from what friends have told me it helps a ton.
@drac2485 - I suffer from being a retired journalist and former magazine editor. Anytime a submitted story didn't immediately grab my attention it got sent back to the writer with some explanations. A lot of times it's just that the writing is too stilted or passive.
@drac2485 - it's what some considered to be the perfect job. Outside of working for STGLane Ltd. and getting free pipes and all the tobacco you can smoke.
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Ouch, having come from a background going to school with theology and biblical languages, I can't imagine how awful it must've been to lose all those resources. Kindle is really a wonderful thing, and I wish I had it back in college.
Okay, I have to confess something really embarrassing... I have used ereaders for so long now that I catch myself "swiping" the page to turn the page (doesn't work, btw) sometimes when I am reading an actual book. LOL! I suddenly feel like Scotty with a mouse in Star Trek IV.
I still have to sit up to within 20' of the screen to read.That's with glasses on.
But,sounds ;like a good recommendation.
@PappyJoe , About 6 years ago,my son and his friends managed to burn my barn
to the ground.There was about 500 to 700 books stored that I just couldn't bring
myself to dispose of.A complete Stepen King collection as well as several years
of Piers Anthony's xanth.All of Anne McCafferty's Pern novels.And 85% were
Hard back.I"m down to the 300 or 400 books that were and are on shelves in
the house.
I don't remember who,but someone mentioned microbiology.There is an old
novel titled "The Judas Strain",Fantastic read.
as for what I read it goes from Pern..love the series...the Amber books by Rodger Zelazney..Piers Anthony incarnations of immortality series..and love the W.E.B. Griffin books..all of them! and any good book about WW1 or WW2 filled with maps and footnotes
@PappyJoe check out Robin Cook,his books will scare you.He wrote one dealing with contaminated beef and
a week after reading it Okla announced a new packing plant to be built.I could not get my wife to shut up for
love nor money.She was so against even the idea,she was livid.Cook does his research really well and his
stories are quite plausible.
I like reading all sorts of classic science fiction and sci-fi horror. I enjoy Lovecraft's sense of horror: the sense that the universe is so vast and we are so small and ignorant and helpless before the immensity of it all.